Iris and I decided to go to the ballet at 2 PM. There was a 'Ballet Rocks & Vivaldi's Four Seasons' performance at the McPherson playhouse. The theatre was a lot smaller than we had expected but it looked really cute. We were sitting in the left corner of the first row, which wasn't too bad but we couldn't really see what was happening in the left rear corner of the stage. The first half of the ballet was a very modern kind of ballet danced to rock music. I especially enjoyed the ballet performances to the songs 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Sound of Silence'. The second half of the ballet was a lot more traditional. It was my first classical ballet. My favourite season of the four seasons was definitely winter. The spring song got stuck in my head for a while as I was already familiar with parts of it. All things considered, I prefered the modern ballet to the classical ballet though.
After the ballet, Iris and I took the bus to where I lived and from there, we walked to Willow's Beach. The walk to the beach was about 2 km long but it was quite interesting as there were many typically suburban houses which looked really nice. We sat at the beach for a few minutes before walking on. Iris tried to clean her shoes with the water of the ocean which resulted in her getting wet feet. We kept walking North to Cattle Point and after that to Uplands Park. Even though it was just a short walk there were some stairs we had to climb, which wasn't really fun as we were still exhausted and especially Iris suffered from sore muscles because of our hike yesterday.
Next we took a bus to get Downtown, hoping to eat dinner at Red Fish Blue Fish. As it turned out, that store was only open during lunch hours. It was just past 6 PM and I thought that the fish store at Fisherman's Wharf might still be open. Thus we took a bus to check it out. Unfortunately, Barb's Fish and Chips had closed at dusk, so we had just missed our chance here, too.
We took the next best bus back to the hostel, were we had dinner. I had a potato and Iris had a salad and then later a potato as well.
We spent most of the evening playing some games which we had found at the hostel. We started with 'Dame', although we were soon told that the english name for that game would be 'Checkers'. Afterwards, I showed Iris how to play 'Chinese Checkers' - a game which I had learned to play here a few months ago. I won both games and Iris decided that she didn't want to play any games against a mathematician anymore. Nevertheless, we still played some 'TicTacToe'.
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