Life n Memories: Our Vacation Down Under & Younder

April 1

Today is a stay in day because Becky’s Facebook friend who is also a colleague of our hostess is coming for a lunch visit.

Breakfast – Homemade Scones and Jams

Exploring the neighbourhood

Girls only

Nice wine

Sharing a joke!!!

Lamp chopped yum!!!

Potato Salad

Beetroot, rocket salad

Lamb chopped, lamb sausages and beef burger patties

Skewered chicken and chicken sausages

It was a day of eating, chatting and laughing from lunch to almost dinner.

April 2

Today is Brisbane discovery tour day.

Breakfast – homemade pancakes with fresh fruits

Boat not here yet

Let’s rest awhile Smile

Here it comes

The first part was a tour of Brisbane River on the City Cat which was really interesting.

Boarding the City Cat

Off we go!!!

Tourist!!! Smile

A cruise ship

Hawthorne ferry wharf

A City Ferry

Brisbane City

Brisbane City

We started from Bretts Wharf and go right up to University of Queensland and hop off somewhere in the city center and continue our discovery tour on foot.

The Route

Our Disembarkation Point

A Green Cab

Rugby a popular sports

Queen Street Mall

Guide Dog Graduation

Autism Supporters in Blue

Happiness – Lunch Time

Scallop and Mussels Risotto

Fish and Chips

Westernized Nasi Lemak

A Native playing a Didgeridoo

After exploring Queen Street Mall we crossed the Victoria Bridge to the Queensland Cultural Centre.

Crossing Victoria Bridge

Green Cab in Action

Inside the art gallery

The story

Close up of familiar things

I like this Smile

Iron Snake???

Hmmm....???

The Story

Bodyguards

Hmmm…

They have no legs!

See, no legs!

Hmm ….

eeny, meeny, miny, moe Laughing

Thrash bag dog

Little glass animals

More little glass animals

Lots of little glass animals

The story

Sound like mine - NG HOUSE Laughing

The Wheel Of Brisbane

After an exciting fun filled day discovering Brisbane, we had a delicious Thai dinner at a nearby small Thai restaurant run by Thai people or should I say Siamese.

Thai spring roll

Duck and pineapple fried rice – yum!

Green Curry

Yummy dish

April 3

Today we return to Melbourne and spend a quiet day in. It was cold.

Brisbane Airport

Cold Day in Melbourne

April 4

Spent the day with Becky’s aunt indoors and her cousin took us out for dinner in a Chinese noodle shop nearby.

Beef Noodles yummie!

Fried Noodles

April 5

Today is the last day of our vacation and will be flying off in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Anyway we went to Preston Market with Becky’s cousin to do some marketing. Really love the markets here, lots of variety, clean, bright … unlike the markets we have back home.

Nice

Lots of choices & varieties

Fresh

Food Truck

In the evening we all went out for dinner just round the corner in Bundoora Hotel before we went to the airport to catch our flight home. We were already missing these two wonderful country.