Okay, so before I explain what this vaudeville thing is, I should continue on with our tracks for the day. Post beer drinking, we went back down towards the harbor for a Diwali Festival of Lights, which was an Indian festival with food, dance performances, and fireworks. We nommed hard and watched the performances and fireworks, before heading to the bathroom where I skulled 3/4 of a bottle of wine.
Steps went forward, and armed with a crappy $2 mask [twas a masquerade], the rest of the bottle poured down, and I went, ticket in hand, to the emperor's bathhouse. I was attending an event which I knew absolutely nothing about. It was to be some sort of 'queer women and their friends' lgbt event that was filled with vaudeville performances. My copilot of wellington wasn't planning on going, but when we got to the door, and she turned around, the bouncer and friends all said that someone came earlier with an extra ticket and she should just come in! [must have thought it was my girlfriend? ha]
We were reasonably late, as the intermission just started, so took this time to make a wandering journey of the club. Club... I don't even know if that's what we should call it. We went upstairs and were immediately confused by all the rooms that were open with weird set ups, and tables, and hand sanitizing containers on the wall next to the paper towels and condom dispensers... ? Next, we passed walls that were intertwined and filled with gloryholes... and another room with a contraption for one to tie themselves up in, as well as a leather swing. Weird. We stood in front of what we thought was a 1 way mirror for a while, but it was just a window [noticed when the guy on the other side finally waved back].
On our trip downstairs we stumbled upon what we thought was the wrong way-- a changing room set up, and hot tub. just sitting there casually, a hot tub.
After the intermission, we got jugs of beer and made our way to our bogan seats in the middle of the aisle, ready to watch what show was about to begin. Ladies [manly ladies] came out dressed up, lip sang some theatrical song whilst stripping down and performing a dance. It went on and on, with the kind of nudity that neither of us wanted to see, but it was quite hilarious. The entire audience we noticed at this point was filled with women... like 200 women, all at least a generation older than us.
After the show was a dance party, which got wild and hilarious, as we made good friends with 40 year old gay campbell and learned about his new fiancee. We managed to make it in to the hot tub later as well as in the sauna that was cleverly attached. All in all, an epic night.
The next day I decided to look up the place and figure out what the hell kind of establishment we were at, and apparently it's an all male sauna that sometimes holds lesbian nights. Who woulda thunk.
Based on our wild evening, Monday was pretty tame, watching TV, cooking delicious pancakes, and painting weird designs into our nails. Dinner was an amazing pumpkin soup and we slept like babies, before my flight the next morning, back to Dunners.
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