A little Magic and a few more cocktails

I have just been reprimanded for pre-mature blogging. Who knew my weekend would end up to be so eventful?!

If you haven't been to the Victoria Room in Darlinghurst on a sunday night for their Performance Carnival night you haven't really been to the Victoria Room at all!

Magic tricks, singing, tap dancing, pole dancing, trapeze and cocktails - now that's a winning combination. And it helps when the Magician is an old friend who is getting you cocktails on his bar tab - recommend the sugar daddy and the horny devil. Did I mention the cocktails have cool names that are fun to order too?!

Rewind a little to the Dumpling and Noodle house on Victoria St in Potts Point (between the Soho and Doughboy). It's a tiny little place with yummy and cheap dumplings. It's pretty tight inside so we got a prime table outside on the street - til the rains came. We were lucky enough to get a table inside so we could continue our scrumptious meal and watch the waters rise to cover the footpath where we were just sitting.

I mentioned it is next to the Soho - well the Soho was empty but had a sign out front that said $8 cocktails. Nuff said? Just a starter - Apple and cinnamon mojitos.

Two skills which you rarely see combined are static trapeze and singing. Each difficult on their own to most and very impressive when a toned and  topless guy does both at the same time. It got a little scary when they decided to re-enact the Dirty Dancing routine (never did like that stupid song).

Highlight to the night was the pole dancing. Pole Dancing has kinda a bad reputation as a stripper thing. But if you have ever tried this (and I have) there is a definite talent to being able to do this well. Funny (and a shame) there are not more men doing this coz it uses a lot of upper body strength and men are generally biologically advantaged in this department. Some absolutely beautiful and powerful moves were demonstrated to us tonight by a very fit man in sequinned shorts. Most impressive.

Did I mention how great the Magician is? Magic is always fun. Magic Dave roams from table to table performing tricks, sorry, illusions, and making people laugh. I'm sitting right in front of him and I can't figure out how he does these card tricks and slight of hand stuff with a little handkerchief. But I love being caught up in the illusion too, so I don't know if I want to know.

In Summary - Go to the Victoria Room on a Sunday evening. A total WOW experience and a great night out.