Bye bye Brisbane...

Well, the end of our trip is finally here - we leave for home tomrrow morning. Brisbane turned out to be a bit of a bust. It seems that the minute we landed in Queensland things started to go a little funny. Accomodations in the city itself were very hard to come by and Denver was even hung up on when he mentioned that we had a child with us! The first night was spent in a pretty run down hostel full of party-minded backpackers. (Well, we figured out where all the young b-pk'ers were hiding out - up in Queensland!) We rented a car the next morning and set off for the beaches up north.
Once we left the city, things were fine, but upon our return, we had the same problems with accomodations. We FINALLY found a place to stay last night after checking about a half dozen places. Brisbane is a hard city to get around in... lots of one way streets and streets and confusing intersections. The city itself is pretty modern compared to what else we have seen in Oz, and we felt it had very character compared to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Trying to find a place to have a decent meal was another disaster!
But all, Brisbane-bashing aside, we are happy we made it up here as we had some great weather and spent 4 days at 4 very different and beautiful beaches. Oliver's mood improved a lot once we were able to get some beach days in and we were able to spend the last few days of our trip relaxing... (until we got back into the city of course!) : )

So, we leave tomorrow at 11 a.m., so we will spend most of the 13 hour flight to L.A. during waking hours, which means lots of entertaining for Oliver. Wish us luck and we'll see you all soon!

Nancy
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