"Can you carry the table and I'll cart the chairs?"
"Wait hang on, I'm switching to some more comfy shoes, who knows how long we'll have to carry this stuff for!
"My guess is we're going to Kings Park or Freo, or the beach even?"
That was the general gist of the conversation my friend Kelly and I had as we madly scrambled to leave the house by 4pm to attend the Diner en Blanc event in Perth on Saturday night.
It's the kind of event you can't just go online and buy a ticket to, you have to be invited through friends that are also invited - the waiting list for this year's event, was 10,000 people long.
It's a night out dancing, eating and drinking, but there's a catch.
Everything has to be white.
You have to be dressed in all white and bring your own white table and white chairs plus picnic style food. The only thing you couldn't bring yourself was alcohol, which was provided.
The event is in a secret location you aren't told about until you get to one of 13 departure points around Perth just hours before the dinner is due to start. We left from the Perth Cultural Centre.
Engulfed in a sea of fellow whiteys, we all dragged our tables in an orderly line to the train station as confused passengers looked on. From there we overheard a transit guard tell someone that the next few trains were direct to Fremantle, and with that, we knew where we were heading.
"It has to be Esplanade Park," Kelly said. "Close to the train station and big enough to hold 2000 people."
She was right, as we all shuffled off the train it soon became apparent the closely guarded secret venue location would be The Esplanade.
Last year it was Elizabeth Quay - another spot easily accessible by public transport.
Once we arrived, the venue was stunning. The pine trees and sunset provided the perfect backdrop for a sea of white.
First up, we unpacked our tables and chairs, laid out our all white table clothes and dressed our tables in white decorations.
Kelly and I's $5 white pot thing we bought from Target was put to shame by some of the elaborate decorations.
There weren't many male pairs at this event - most were either women pairs or a man and a woman, and I think I know why - the preparation to attend the dinner required a whole lot of organisation.
Between Kelly and I, in the week before the event we visited five shops and borrowed two items just to qualify for the "all white event".
A table of a specific size, white foldable chairs, white table cloth, white napkins, white picnic hamper and crockery... the list went on.
I drew the line at having to bring a white lighter for the sparkle waving part of the evening.
I'd already spray painted my wooden picnic basket white the day before, which culminated in an accident where my whole deck and outdoor table was covered in white, they would accept my orange lighter or else.
As the park slowly transformed into a long table dinner, most people opted to bring their own food, some of the food platters looked straight out of a food magazine.
We purchased a platter but didn't anticipate it coming in a bag. Thankfully Kelly is a student at Notre Dame University and ran across the road to borrow a board from the kitchen.
The couple next to us were in the same predicament and had to forgo their plates to make a makeshift platter board.
A waving of the napkins at around 7pm signified the beginning of the night and a sparkler dance around 9pm meant the dance floor was officially open, with a live band and then DJ entertaining the crowd.
There's something about all being dressed the same that made you feel like you were all instantly connected.
Making friends with strangers was easy. And a communal skipping rope made from fairy lights in the middle of the dance floor made it even easier.
We spent most of the evening chatting with the couples either side of us, both were in their late twenties / early thirties like us.
As the night drew to an end, the park slowly began to return to its former state. With each guest taking all their belongings and leaving no trace.
Within moments the pop up party had disappeared. It was an amazing thing to watch.
The concept behind the event was launched in Paris 30 years ago but only came to Perth for the first time last year.
Now more than 100,000 people around the world take part in Diner En Blanc events held in hundreds of cities.
It's definitely worth going if you can get your hands on a ticket. Just make sure you're prepared to spend a bit of cash and time getting together your all white items.