Saturday was opening night of Brisbane’s Riverfire Festival. It’s this huge festival that lasts the entire month of September where they have all sorts of musicians and plays and whatnot going on every night. However, opening night is the Riverfire portion where they set up fireworks all along the Brisbane River and then have two F1-11s fly over and do a fuel dump. Yes for all you environmentalists it’s very not environmentally friendly, but when the planes dump their fuel it ignites and so it looks like there are rockets flying through the air, and no none of the fuel itself actually falls on the ground. You environmentalists will also be happy to know that this is the last year that they’re doing it, so I’m quite happy that I got to see it. Anyway, during the day my roommates and I pretty much just hung out. We were going to go to Streets Beach in South Bank, but we realized that we would then have to come back pretty early to get ready for Riverfire (we were leaving around 4 for it) and then head back to South Bank because that’s where people watch it. Needless to say, it would have been pointless to go back and forth from South Bank that day. We didn’t end up getting there until around 5 or 5:30 and the fireworks started at 7, but even by then South Bank was absolutely packed. At that point we found a good spot on Streets Beach and then Katie, Carrie and I went to get food, which took forever. We went to an express seafood place to get some fish and chips and probably waited in line for an hour. Then we had to get back to our spot, which was quite the difficult task because there were so many people there. On the bright side we got back with just enough time to eat our food and then the fireworks started. I can honestly say I’ve never seen a fireworks show as incredible as this. They had fireworks going off in 3 or 4 different areas along the river and they had them coming from buildings. All of the fireworks were synchronized and going along to music. Then there were the planes that flew over. The best way to describe the show is through my pictures, which I’ll post soon. Just to give you an idea though of how incredible it was, there were 600,000 fireworks that they set off. The only down side to this is that now whenever I watch fireworks I’ll compare it to this show, and I don’t think anything will ever compare. Oh and at the beginning they literally lit part of the river on fire. I also have to note that before the show started there was a blackhawk flying up and down the river, which for those of you who don't know, the company I work for builds them. After the show, we went back to my friend Sam’s apartment and hung out there for a little while before going to the Victory. By the time we got to the bar it was probably close to 11:30 or 12 and I think I ended up heading home around 1. The bar was packed and you felt like a sardine and I was soaked because it had been raining so it wasn’t the most comfortable conditions there. All in all though, I must say it was an incredible night! That’s all for now!! I hope all is well back home!!
Britt
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