First few days in Brisbane, Australia

Above shot taken from the Citycat Ferry Brisbane, Australia

I am not even sure who this one should go out to since my thoughts have been all over the place! I have now been in Brisbane(Brissy, Brisvegas) for 4 days! The day I got in I met Krista who just got in as well, so we went exploring the city by using the the Citycat(ferry). The 2nd day was spent dong a walking tour, which was done by a hyper-active 20 year old with ADHD selling his city! Words often used were "Awesome", and "I win". It was highly amusing to watch him put on this show and get easily distracted by birds all the time. I tried to take care of some business but it was a complete fail! Lots of walking in three days and I think I finally got hit by jet lag.


The next night was spent trying to learn salsa, which had me thinking about Victoria and the nights we went swing dancing! Is everyone still going out to those? Total fail at learning how to do salsa! I am sorry but no matter what men will always look a little bit questionable when they are salsa dancing. After we went to an Irish pub( reminded me of good time in Calgary) and had a really good night there! There was a live band playing and they completly buthcherd some rock songs, they stopped soon after so it was all good. The music in clubs here is the Top 40 music which is played everywhere! After some drinks and fun dancing we headed back to our hostel. On the way back we met the British guy(on the left) in a toga! He looks like he had quite a good time!




Went and explored the art museum and kept wondering what kind of bull Thea would feed me to make me understand some of the art work. I would probably have believed some of it as well. I just could not understand any of them(example on the right) then I saw this quote at the end of the exhibit: "Painting and sculpture develop faster then their audience" . Which is pretty true after all the strange painting I saw.


Australia is amazing so far! People are very nice and friendly which just reminds me of Canada so feeling at home is easy at times.

Things that have happened:

1. Talked to an Aussie who speaks Hindi! - all I could do was stare at him
2. I met a person from New York and was greeted in a traditional New York fashion- not very polite and really just falls in to a stereotype of what New Yorkers are like. Kind of disappointing
3. Danced with some cute Korean guys - <3
4. Have met Swedish, French, German and a Dutch people
5. There is a really creepy look bird here that will attack you to get food(look below)
   

Brisbane by night

Actual entry written on September 19th,2010