03.01.10
Bring on the rain
Leaving the north…
Our morning started out by watching the covereage of the gathering about 5,000 naked people at the Sydney Opera House. We were only 4 days late for quite a sight!! After our fill of morning tv, major humidity (as soon as we opened our porch door we’d steam up immediately), and as Cairns was about to get even hotter, we catch our flight out to Brisbane. (this time under weight and no issues!) The weather forecast didn’t look good, and it didn’t get much better once we landed. We lucked out a bit yet again for our hotel room, top floor (15th) and a view of the river!
As rain started coming down harder we broke out the umbrellas and explored a bit of the city. We found the Queen St. Mall (strips of shops along a few blocks kind of like a closed off Michigan Ave) and chose a restaurant with a 2nd floor view right in the middle of the mall, which made for awesome people watching – particularly with the umbrellas and interesting outfits. It was raining pretty hard, so we opted to come back, drink some wine, do some laundry, and watch some aussie tv (we might be addicted to Home and Away a cheesy nightly soap opera type show… hmmm hulu or netflix???).