Up nice and early this morning for the flight to Brisbane - all went well.
We hired a car for the day in Brisbane - since we needed a fairly large car for us and the luggage, I'd booked a 'Commodore Sportswagon or similar'. I was hoping to actually get a Sportswagon as they're on my list of cars I'd like to buy and I thought it would be good to have a test drive. We did get one, and it's still on my list of cars I'd like to buy! And astonishingly, Paul didn't completely hate it either - usually a car that's good for me to drive is not at all what he likes. All I have to do now is win the Lotto and buy one!
Driving out of Brisbane I got monstered by some bloke who wanted me to go faster - even though I was in the middle lane of a three lane highway, we were doing the speed limit, and I'd have had to run over someone else to go any faster. He got bored with bullying me after a while and passed me on the left then chopped right across to the right hand lane, and sped off. A couple of minutes down the road a police car with sirens and lights blazing went past us, then a couple of minutes later that same car is pulled over being booked. I'm ashamed to say that I cheered out loud - you don't often see idiots get into such immediate trouble for their bad driving!
We went to visit Al and Ingrid - I hadn't been to their house before. I could have sat on the back deck for days just chatting and watching the trees and wallabies - such a lovely place!
After that we went to Joanne's place and visited for a while, then dropped off the hire car in the city and went to our hotel. Nice apartment at the Oaks on Felix - we've stayed here before and it's always quite acceptable. Today's apartment has a view of the Story Bridge - I'll see if I can post a picture or two.
Adam decided he wanted to go to the Mana Bar - it's a video game arcade and bar combined. He had a good time although he didn't stay all that long. I walked to the Valley with him, and then back, so at least I've had a bit of exercise today.
And, tomorrow we sail away!
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