While trying to orient Henry to the pulse of the CBD, we ended up in the Docklands area just outside the CBD. Henry had been looking forward to riding the giant Ferris wheel, The Melbourne Star.
Which we discovered is permanently closed. A Covid casualty. Whoa. That mental shock required a food stop at San Churro that was thankfully close.
Henry saw something called "The Imaginaria: The Future of Playgrounds." It was in a huge inflated structure and looked interesting to him. So I paid for admission with what I would have spent on the Star and we went it.
At first I thought it was just a bounce house with mood lighting and was unimpressed. But Henry was having a lot of fun and then I started to notice the uniqueness of it. There was a large rotating floor. It moved very slowly. Overhead was a large screen. It was showing the image of the people on the rotating floor. So when you laid on your back and looked up, you could feel yourself moving, but it *looked* like you were stationary because the overhead image moved with you. It was mesmerizing. And kind of relaxing.
They had a lot of soft rubbery tubes hanging from the ceiling with lights shining on them so they were all lit up. You could walk through them. It felt like grass blades but looked like colorful rain. It was also relaxing.
They had a huge talking AI head that you could ask questions. There was a hallway with mirrors that looked like a giant kaleidoscope you could walk through. It was eery, but also...relaxing.
Henry had fun with an interactive round screen that responded to touch with lots of little dots of light. It looked like glitter in a snow globe, but if rotated on the screen along with your movements.
Henry was running around a lot having a blast. And I was letting go of some stress too.
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