Thursday, June 2, 2011

Australia Trip - Brisbane

Australia was AMAZING!! We are so sad we had to come home and get back to real life. While we were there we visited 3 different cities. Here are some picks from our stay in Brisbane.

Me and my sister Allison at her house in Inala.


We went to the Botanical gardens and saw where Allison got married and enjoyed the beautiful shrubbery!


Allison and my new Brother-In-Law Mark. Or as we like to call him... Maark.




 We tried our best to get some jumping pictures... it didn't really work out.


Oops...


The next day we went to South Bank. We enjoyed the beautiful cityscape, hanging out, and some museums.
We also loved messing around with this lizard.



Australia has some awesome trees... just wait





this is probably my favorite tree we saw. this is all one HUGE tree. it's so big, they have to support it with those beams.



High Five jump



Penny has the longest tongue ever!!

Probably the most important discovery of the trip was Max Brenner. He is the bald chocolate man! This is a chocolate bar. mmmmm. i want some right now!


The first time we went, mark and i made the mistake of ordering the marshmallow hot chocolate... it was good, but nowhere close to the Italian thick hot chocolate. oh my! melt me some chocolate and stick it in a HugMug (we decided  to call it the Toilet Cup instead of the HugMug)!



We spent some time in the Modern Art Museum. Unfortunately they were in transition mode, and not a lot of exhibits were open.







Next we wandered into the natural history museum


(this one is for you John!)

The next day we went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. It was so cool! we saw tons of cool animals and even got to hang out and pet kangaroos!




(another cool tree!)







There were a TON of kangaroos laying around here. you can't really tell in the pictures though.


HUGE BIRD!!


Then, we took the windy roads all the way up to O'Reileys Rainforest and did the Tree Top  Walk! It was awesome. we got there right before the sun went down so we couldn't spend as much time as we wanted there.







Brisbane was awesome!!! But just wait for what comes next!!

4 comments:

John said...

MOJO! Awesome :P However my favorite pic is the one above that one. You guys would have made great dinosaurs :D

Cheryl said...

I want to go there so bad!!! It's one of the places on my list that I have to go to someday. Love the pictures!

Kat said...

Ok. I have so much to say! First of all, WELCOME BACK!! Next, I cannot believe you held a snake and wrapped it around your head!!! I also can't believe you saw and touched real life kangaroos! I'm so jealous! You take really amazing pictures, and you look absolutely gorgeous in each picture!! What an amazing trip! Can't wait to see the rest of the pictures!!

Jessica Arnett Williamson said...

It looks like an awesome trip!!! Love your pictures.