First Day in Brisbane

Today some of the girls and I took the ferry down the Brisbane River to South Bank and laid out on the beach all day. I’m calling it a beach but it’s really a huge pool that was designed to look exactly like a beach, sand and all, and it looks out at the river. It’s their way of allowing people to swim near the river but not actually in it since there are bull sharks in it, which have killed more humans than great whites…awesome. The ferry is about a 5-minute walk from our house and it’s really cheap making it incredibly convenient. We had a wonderful lunch consisting of sushi and smoothies, which by the way, the states apparently have no idea how to make good smoothies. So needless to say it was a nice and relaxing day; perfect for my first full day there.

When we got back from the beach I had to go shopping and obviously get some nice cheap Australian wine and some food of course. Later we took the ferry to a pretty nice bar called the Regatta. It was great until it got so packed you quite literally couldn’t even move. Weird note about Australia, they like to go out really early, like 7, and then everything shuts down by around 12 or 1.

Ok so now to discuss the Australian wildlife that I have experienced so far. I don’t remember if I mentioned this earlier or not but we have a wonderful pet spider named Huey who lives outside of our house. His gigantic web extends from our railing to our house so it’s really fun going up and down the stairs…Birds here: some of them may look similar to birds from back home, but they’re bigger and they make the strangest sounds. I have yet to hear a bird make what we would consider to be a normal chirping sound. Seagulls: they look similar to ours, but their noises are even worse than ours making them even more obnoxious and annoying than the ones in the states. Last night I saw a pelican, which was awesome and so stereotypical of Australia. The plant life here is so much different than back home, things that would be considered exotic are just standard backyard plants here, it’s crazy.

So despite only having been here a day, I already feel really settled in and comfortable here, which is awesome. That’s all I have for now, but I’ll update again soon. If you actually read this then thanks for reading! I love you all and I’ll talk to you soon!

Britt

ps I'm not going to post pictures in my blog, I'm just going to post them on facebook