Heaven anticipating quake very soon ….with these skyscrapers

24th November 2010-Photos : Eureka Skydeck , Southbank

With these builders or billionaires investing in skyscrapers, poor heavenly entities are getting worried if these buildings one day would touch heaven soon….Even though its was just 88 floors in Eureka Sky deck , it felt as though we were well raised above the earthly matters. I am sure our next generations will see 2000 storey building.

 The onset of the journey began with dad & mom reaching Glenhuntly station. Dad in his own sophisticated way guided mom to board the train unaware of the fact that mom by now has got used to boarding trains and noticing train stations..:P

For the first time on Melbourne trains on their own, with a little worry I had called them when dad said they reached Toorak. I said wow you reached Toorak, you are close to city. It was 5.10pm or so when I had to work for another 20-mins.I could not start a new task and neither did I have mood to continue existing task. At parallel Sravan was busy amusing himself with his entertaining work related discussions with his mates.

We thought of meeting dad at Southern Cross Station however the train reached Flinders Street first. We had to take the tram and do some walking in order to meet mom & dad. Meanwhile dad started his photography, tried to capture Flinders Station, busy Swanston Street, Federation Square, the heritage cathedral, and nevertheless captured mom sitting at the corner of busy streets Flinders and Swanston. We caught up with them at that junction and showed them near by landmarks. As Melbourne city is renowned for its diverse cusines, restraunts & cafes, we wanted to introduce at least one of the diversity factors to them. We took them to the “Lindt” shop, which is located at Collins street.Its in a heritage building with a beautiful ambience. Dad took a photograph of a beautifully decorated entrance of this store. After we had a initial look at the products there, mom was delighted to see chocolates in rabbits, umbrella etc shapes also the Christmas tree decorated with huge lindt chocolate balls. Mom and I queued up at the place where it read “Please queue up here for dine in.” We were made to sit at a table with the menu book. We ordered “Hot Chocolate (milk) x 2”,”Strawberry dipping chocolate “and 4 lindt delices.Mom says “Hot chocolate tastes like bournvita …but its quite good “.Both of them liked everything and enjoyed to the maximum. Mom made sure the camera captures everything about the store.

After a relaxing time at Lindt, we went for a walk towards the Southbank near Yarra River. This walk is enchanting when its evening while sun hides in the sky .At night this river looks as though it has been accessorised with the lit lights. Though it was not dark, still the river and cbd view made the place picturesque. We took multiple photographs until the camera detected that it needs flash to capture moments as real ones. Since it was nearing Twilight, we reached Eureka Sky deck. This is Southern Hemisphere's highest viewing platform. As soon we bought ticket, we entered the building that took us to 6-metre multi-user interactive 'Serendipity Table' that explores the stories and history of Melbourne. We spent close to 10 minutes here. It appeared quite interesting to all of us and it was fun to operate that.

We told mom that we would have to go to 88^th floor to watch the city. The next statement says, I cannot climb stairs... :)Then we got into the lift, which was supposed to take us to 88^th floor within seconds. Assuming this will be as fast as flight, we though we will experience the same. We were amazed with the smoothness and swiftness of the lift and within the seconds, we were on 88^th floor. Initially we were at a place that was like being in a apartment with transparent walls. The views were amazing; we could see the sea at the border of the city. Slowly it was getting darker and darker, the whole city looked brighter and brighter .We moved to another side of the building where in it was like a balcony with wired mesh. The moderately cold wind was blowing and we could see a clear sky and the well-lit city. There were fixed binoculars, which mom and dad looked through. Amazed by the serenity, technological advancement, arrangements mom and dad were busy watching outside. We showed dad the Melbourne videos playing on the LCDs there.The videos mentioned about diversity and passion in Melbourne. It was close to 9.30 pm when we were down to earth outside the building thinking how small all these other buildings, cars and people looked from top.

Well it was night, we have not thought about dinner yet. We decided to go to the restaurant near Flinders station. Flora is the only south Indian restaurant that a first time traveller visits first in the city. We ordered 2 x dosa meals and masala dosa with the intent of a couple sharing 1dosa meal and dosa.Mom enjoyed the dosa and so did dad. A usual I was full but tried to accommodate my share in my stomach. On top of this dad’s constant effort of putting his share on our plates bloated our stomach. We had tough time pursuing dad to finish his share of dinner. We boarded a train of 10.46 pm and reached home at 11.20pm .Although everyone was tired of the walk and it was time to sleep, we sat for 20 mins to watch the photographs taken today. It was 12 midnight when our house was at stand still, with everyone sleeping tight as if not slept for days together.