Day 72 - Brisbane

I am having major problems with this blog as it won't publish and I am having to retype whole posts as it hasn't saved, so if I stop all of a sudden it is because I no longer have the patience to persevere with the "errors" or it has completely died on me!!!!!!  I will do my best though, it seems to be happier first thing in the morning, but not for long!!!!

We woke up to an even colder morning this morning with rain threatening.  All the jeans came out of the wardrobe for the first time as we got ready to go into Brisbane and do some site seeing.  I managed to squeeze into mine which I was pretty happy about, as long as I didn't breath to deeply or eat for the day they fit perfectly!!!!!

We drove down to South bank and had a wander along there.  What an awesome spot, a variety of pools and numerous eateries and shops.  We couldn't believe people were actually swimming as it was starting to rain and we were all freezing but there were people in the water and others laying on the lawn in their bikinis, we were amazed.  Not even our little mermaid wanted to go in the water.

We caught the City Cat to have a look up the river, what a fantastic public transport system, they catch the ferry over here like a bus, it takes you from one side of the river to the other, all the way up to the Queensland University and then back the other way to residential areas.  We hopped off on the other side of the river so we could have look down town, walked to the mall to find somewhere for lunch, miserable weather so it wasn't much fun.  The kids had been harassing us for ages that they wanted McDonalds, we walked past all these lovely little cafes and bistros in the middle of the mall but McDonalds won and Glen and I put the restaurants on our list of things to do when we come back without the kids!!!!!!

Anyway, we hopped back on the ferry and did the other end of the river before heading home.  A shame it was raining however, it is the first wet day we have had so I shouldn't complain.  We decided to cook Elizabeth and Charles dinner tonight as they were both working and with two little kids it gets a bit hectic so I was really happy to be able to get home in time to do that for them.  We had another lovely evening with them sitting around talking until late.  It has been so nice to catch up.