1st day, Brisbane, Australia

I went to Australia for two weeks w/ my family to visit my aunt, uncle and cousin there. I took my dad. It was his first vacation in decades! When he got back, he said he loved it. I think I found that I really love my dad on this trip. I never really had that feeling before, now I do and I hope he sticks around for a while, I'm sure he'd like to see grandkids...

Anyway, first day. Australia is divided up into states, about 6 or 7. On the eastern coast there is New South Wales to the south and Queensland to the north. Sydney is in NSW and is quite a ways south, so much so that the weather is very different from the more tropical clime of Brisbane, which is in Queensland (QLD), 12 hours north by car.



Brisbane is a coastal city w/ a river that snakes into the middle of the city. You can get to different places by river cat, a boat that drops you off at different points in the city as the river winds through it.


It's a pretty picturesque city, except for the cloud cover during our outing. It was fun seeing my family and my cousin again.


Anyway, not much happened that day, we went back home and shopped groceries and I picked up this beauty, a custard apple. It's got little custard things inside w/ seeds in the middle and there are a thousand of these little custard seed things. You just kinda suck the meat off the seed and move on to the next. It was really delicious.

Oh we also had kangaroo meat for dinner. It was pretty good, different but good. I already forgot the taste actually so I couldn't say for sure. It just tasted like meat more or less.

We came separately, my dad and I from the rest of the family. One group came a day ahead and my brother came the day after we got there. My brother would arrive the following morning. Stay tuned for day 2 w/ Koalas and Kangaroos.

I separated the albums by city, so each album has different days, the Brisbane one can be seen here: Brisbane Album