After lunch, about 3, Dad was ready to go up to Woodhouse so we drove up the freeway to Stirling and then Dad showed me how to get to the Woodhouse Scouts Camp from there. I just hoped I could remember it when I had to pick him up. I helped him unload his gear and had a bit of a look around the site which was beautiful before heading back home.
I had a shower and got ready to go out and meet Stan and Kate so that we could go to this hypnotist show called Hypnolarious - part of the Fringe. I picked Stan and Kate up and we arrived early so we walked along Hindley street before we found this little Tapas bar where we stopped for a drink. Obviously they were doing flamenco lessons upstairs as the sound of people's feet could be heard as we sipped our drinks.
We almost lost track of time so we walked quickly back to the Chaos bar where the show was being held in time for it to start. Obviously we didn't know we should have arrived earlier for the dinner which we had booked because as soon as our main course was served, the lights went off and we ate in the dark as we watched the show. It wasn't too bad though.
A number of people volunteered from the audience. I almost did but missed out. In some ways I am glad I didn't. Out of the 10 people on stage, I would say that 7 were truly hypnotised. A couple of people left the stage soon after he started as they were obviously not hypnotised. Other than that, it was amazing what he had the people do. He had one girl convinced that a man in the audience was wearing her shoes so she went and found him and took his shoes off him and wore them back onstage. Then he told her they weren't hers and she need to go look again so as this girl came past our table, Kate told her that the hypnotist had her shoes. This backfired on Kate as he then told the girl that Kate had her shoes so she had to give them to this girl. It was pretty funny really.
There were also the usual tricks where he made them think the audience was naked, that their shoe was a phone and that they were all part of a Ricky Martin concert. One trick I thought was pretty amazing. There was a big guy up on the stage and the hypnotist made him lay on the floor and told him to be really stiff like a rod. A bunch of guys from the audience picked him up and balanced him on two chairs. He managed to keep his body upright. Next he asked a lady from the audience to stand on top of him! He didn't move at all. The guys then lifted him off the chairs and placed him back on the floor and when he "woke up" he didn't know anything about it. I thought that was pretty impressive.
Normally I guess I would be a sceptic with things like this but seeing it in real life definitely made you wonder. It was a pretty godo show and we stayed around to have another drink afterwards. None of us were ready to go home so we walked down Hindley Street and found the Apothecary - a tiny little bar/ restaurant. We had coffees (well Stan had an Absynth) and chatted about the show before heading back to the car. I dropped them off and headed home about midnight. It had been a great night.
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