Kim and I both have birthdays in mid to late August so Saturday night we headed out for a joint birthday celebration. There were eight of us in total: Kim and Josh, Dennis and Jenesse, Mel, Dylan, Sarah and I. We met up for dinner at Campari's who were very accommodating in allowing us to order a banquet (despite them not really offering those anymore) and providing us with some fabulous Italian food: antipasto, pear and rocket salad, seafood risotto, beef and orrechiette, garlic bread and fettucine with salmon and dill in a vokda cream sauce.
We then moved to the outdoor tables for a few more drinks (long enough to make fun of what I think was a hen's night group with a girl who was really only wearing a shirt) before wandering around to West End. The Lychee Lounge (our intended destination) was packed so we wandered across the road to the Pavillion for one drink before heading back and snaring seats out the front. The Lychee Lounge loses part of it's appeal when it's so busy you can't move, and everytime I go there it's busier than the time before. Also note, the passionfruit vokda infusion is better than the toblerone one (which when mixed with milk doesn't really have any flavour).
Sarah, Dyland and Mel all left by about 11.30, and the rest of us only hung around for another 45 minutes or so. I ended up walking to the Myer Centre before realising the night buses don't leave from there, but seeing as I had about an hour to waste before the bus came I dawdled back to the Cultural Centre to wait with the other 50 or so people at the station.
