After a beautiful but long train ride, filled with lovely landscapes and a crazy woman offering us all popcorn, we arrived in Brisbane early early in the morn. It was 5:30 am when we got in, and the office that we were all meeting at in Brisbane wasn't open until 9, so those who hadn't slept on the train (luckily I was not one of them) caught some z's on the floor of the train station. Comfy.
Once we dropped our stuff off at the office, we had about 5 hours to kill before the official time that the whole group was supposed to meet up, so we decided to wander around town in search of food and amusement...and whammmy! we stumbled upon this man made beach, or the south bank "lagoon" as they like to call it. None of us were expecting to pass the time on the beach that day, but we were happy to give in to the strangely placed swimming spot. Rough life..
Here in Brisbane we're staying with host families, Frances and I are staying with a lovely family with a host mama, papa, and two sisters who are our age. They're all really nice and welcoming. Scott, the dad, took us to the coast over the weekend for what we thought was going to be a huge surfing/art festival but ended up
being a very small festival with little to see. Nevertheless, the coast was beautiful, we went beach hoppin the whole day with a quick dip in a fresh water spot at the end of the day.
A hazy Surfers paradise skyline in the distance
Scott and Frances
Rainbow lorakeets feeding on our deck
View from our back deck, we basically live in a tree house.
We also have a bush turkey. His name is Willy
We went to the Matisse exhibit at the museum, which was really great.
Shout out to my girl Isabel, my tuna, mon frere. I'm pretty sure you are a reincarnate of Matisse and should consider pursuing art as a career, because this sketch of his looks SO much like an isabel drawing its a little freaky deaky. just sayin.
crazy exhibit by crazy japanese lady. yayoi somethin..she really likes polkadots.
gettin back to my musical roots
GAH! the spiders here are absurd. Especially considering we live in a treehouse/jungle. They seem to really enjoy our house, they come into our basement to hang out with me and frances all the time.
Tomorrow we go on a little weekend excursion to Stradbroke Island, a sand island off the coast of Brisbane. I'm crossing my fingers for a dugong siting, apparently they dwell in these parts... everyone send me good dugong vibes!
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