The day started by perusing about the city. We started out by making our way to the city center, Cathedral Square. There, had you not guessed... there is a cathedral. We went in and explored, and it was quite nice. More the stereotypical cathedral as opposed to the cathedral we visit in Nelson which was very modern.
When we exit the cathedral, the town square was gathering around a street preformer. It turns out we are attending Christchurch during their Buskers Festival. For those who don't know... that is a festival for street performers. Anyway, this first act (for us) is a street painter. At first we thought he was a magician... but twice (including his finally), he started throwing paint on a black page. At first it seemed entirely random, but within 3 minutes it turned into a portrait of Mick Jagger. It was crazy.
This inspired us to see more acts of the festival so we went to Victoria square where there were two different stages and we tended to alternate between the two. First (second I suppose), we saw Campground Chaos. This was an aerial stage acrobatics act. We then saw a bicyclist who was at one point riding the bike by holding the handlebars and walking on the front wheel. We then saw another actor though i'm feeling weaker in describing his act in a nutshell, but it was mostly balancing and juggling. Then we saw a duet circus pair who were very funny.
All in all it was a blast. By this point we headed out for some water as we'd been in the sun for quite a while. We went back briefly but the acts going on were not as engaging. The whole thing is 10 days, from the 20th to 30th. It was a lot of fun.
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