This past weekend was all about Brisbane. Saturday marked the kickoff to the Brisbane Festival with Riverfire and Sunday we took a drive up to Mt. Coot-tha. It was a fun weekend and has been a good beginning of week eight. Details below:
The weekend started off on Friday night with a girl's night. There was fort building in the living room/kitchen and there may have been some pranking of the boys in our group. We shaving creamed (I don't know if that is proper English... help me out mom) their mirrors, turned their posters in their rooms upside down and wrote messages on their doors. The war has begun and slowly they have been getting us girls back. I am still waiting for what they will do to me, but revenge is sweet and the girls still have several tricks up our sleeves.
Saturday was Riverfire. Basically, think Disneyworld firework show, on a river with, no joke, half a million people. There is no place to sit, or stand and walking is just not an option. But for a half hour after sunset, everyone turns their heads to the sky to watch the show. The Airforce did a show with three dump and burns and then the fireworks started. They are shot off of buildings in the city, the river and surrounding bridges. The entire show is set to Aboriginal music and didgeridoos playing. The show doesn't last long, but it was truly spectacular.
On Sunday, I planned to hike to the Brisbane lookout on Mt. Coot-tha. However, it rained all day Sunday and into Monday. So instead a friend of mine and I drove to the top. I still want to hike it on a sunny day but the view was still breath-taking. You can see all of Brisbane and more. Everything is so green and beautiful and city scape actually reminds me a little bit of Denver. I did manage to get a few pictures, but more will come when the weather gets a little bit better.
Tomorrow, we leave for Sydney. I am so excited. We will only be there for the weekend but we are planning to fit a lot in. I promise to post when I return and I will include lots of pictures. After that will be the start of week nine. Can you believe it? I sure can't, but I say that all the time. The rest of the time will fly by with weekend trips, spring break, and traveling over the exam period. Before I know it, my lovely parents will be half way across the world with me and then it will be time for me to leave this beautiful country and venture home. But I am not going to think about that now... there are too many things happening before then!
Until next time, Cheers!
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