Christmas Lights Downunder
Thought I'd post some pics I took of the Christmas lights in Melbourne. It's nothing like Orchard Road here, but they do have pretty fantastic displays in various places.
The best place for lights is apparently in Ivanhoe, along the Boulevard, but somehow I never made it there to check it out. So have to be content with the lights in the city area, around Federation Square.
This is the view of the giant tree at Federation Square. It's a synthetic monstrosity, not a real tree unfortunately. You can see a bit of the front part of Flinders St train station just on the left, and the lights & displays of the buildings at the corner of Flinders & Swanston Streets. This was taken at about 9pm, about 2 weeks before Christmas, while we were attending the free Christmas concert by the Richmond AOG church.
This is a pic of Sasha, Liz's 16 year old daughter, and moi, lounging on the comfortable cushion/chairs at the Ikea Christmas display at Fed Sq at the atrium just below the Ian Potter Museum area. Those teddy bear shaped cushion things are quite comfortable & fun too !
This is Liz & me standing next to a fairy covered in crystals in another part of the display. Quite pretty, don't you think ? I mean the fairy & lights lah....haha....
;-)
This is probably my favourite pic - what a gorgeous looking unicorn ! That's my favourite mythical creature.Look at the faces of the people behind - full of wonder.
This one is me in front of those really cute lights in the form of flowers - was really tempted to go Ikea to buy them...hehe...
This is a bit dark but you should be able to make out the gingerbread men having a party behind the penguins..."Kawaii" !
Finally, this is us standing in front of the Ikea tree - looks better than the Fed Sq one, doesn't it ? This display of lights was also to raise funds for the children - in the day time, you can choose to pay & take a picture with Santa in his transparent igloo in the centre of it all ( made from plastic actually ). The proceeds go to charity - good way to promote your products as well as do something worthwhile, don't you think ?
The best place for lights is apparently in Ivanhoe, along the Boulevard, but somehow I never made it there to check it out. So have to be content with the lights in the city area, around Federation Square.
This is the view of the giant tree at Federation Square. It's a synthetic monstrosity, not a real tree unfortunately. You can see a bit of the front part of Flinders St train station just on the left, and the lights & displays of the buildings at the corner of Flinders & Swanston Streets. This was taken at about 9pm, about 2 weeks before Christmas, while we were attending the free Christmas concert by the Richmond AOG church.
This is a pic of Sasha, Liz's 16 year old daughter, and moi, lounging on the comfortable cushion/chairs at the Ikea Christmas display at Fed Sq at the atrium just below the Ian Potter Museum area. Those teddy bear shaped cushion things are quite comfortable & fun too !
This is Liz & me standing next to a fairy covered in crystals in another part of the display. Quite pretty, don't you think ? I mean the fairy & lights lah....haha....
;-)
This is probably my favourite pic - what a gorgeous looking unicorn ! That's my favourite mythical creature.Look at the faces of the people behind - full of wonder.
This one is me in front of those really cute lights in the form of flowers - was really tempted to go Ikea to buy them...hehe...
This is a bit dark but you should be able to make out the gingerbread men having a party behind the penguins..."Kawaii" !
Finally, this is us standing in front of the Ikea tree - looks better than the Fed Sq one, doesn't it ? This display of lights was also to raise funds for the children - in the day time, you can choose to pay & take a picture with Santa in his transparent igloo in the centre of it all ( made from plastic actually ). The proceeds go to charity - good way to promote your products as well as do something worthwhile, don't you think ?
posted by J Wong at 12:58 PM
1 Comments:
Hey, Great to see more pictures! And to see pics of Melbourne...wah, last time I was there was 1995.
Thanks for pointing out those (real) people behind the mythical horse, I thought they were part of the display.
:-)
btw, thanks for your Xmas eCard!
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