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Hello everyone,
Brisbane has been very nice but very wierd. Ari's Uncle Michael is a god in human form, giving us a warm bed, the yummiest food imaginable and free reign of the house and time to play with his lovely lovely 2 1/2 yer old, Jack. Jack took time to size us up but now we're getting on like a house on fire. He likes us. This is good. We are trying to make new friends and this is a very good start.
Brisbane is a really lovely city and I sort of wish we were staying longer. There's a lovely part called the South Bank, wierdly enough on the South bank of the Brisbane river where they've created a little beach area. That's also where the museum is where we saw the Muttaburrasaurus skeleton (a dinosaur discovered in Muttaburra obviously. Tristan says I'm not allowed to laugh at the name. (heh heh)) and where we saw the Kylie exhibition and the art gallery, full of stuff Ari called inspired and I called pretentious wank.
The traffic lights are wierd in Australia. When you press the button it beeps slowly for ages until you pretty much want to kill yourself, but then it does this big electronic whoooosh sound followed by very fast beeping to tell you to cross, which intially I found terribly exciting, until we got to Brisbane, where there are crossing everywhere of course. Which means, standing at a crossing, you hear the whooshing noise, start to cross before seeing the red man ahead of you and realising the whoosh is from a different crossing.
Seeing as the system was designed for blind people I consider this a major design flaw.
Anyway, I'm going to go now. We are cooking dinner for Michael and Mel tonight and want to make sure it is stunning.
Lizziexxx
Oh by the way I had a haircut. It's very short now.
Brisbane has been very nice but very wierd. Ari's Uncle Michael is a god in human form, giving us a warm bed, the yummiest food imaginable and free reign of the house and time to play with his lovely lovely 2 1/2 yer old, Jack. Jack took time to size us up but now we're getting on like a house on fire. He likes us. This is good. We are trying to make new friends and this is a very good start.
Brisbane is a really lovely city and I sort of wish we were staying longer. There's a lovely part called the South Bank, wierdly enough on the South bank of the Brisbane river where they've created a little beach area. That's also where the museum is where we saw the Muttaburrasaurus skeleton (a dinosaur discovered in Muttaburra obviously. Tristan says I'm not allowed to laugh at the name. (heh heh)) and where we saw the Kylie exhibition and the art gallery, full of stuff Ari called inspired and I called pretentious wank.
The traffic lights are wierd in Australia. When you press the button it beeps slowly for ages until you pretty much want to kill yourself, but then it does this big electronic whoooosh sound followed by very fast beeping to tell you to cross, which intially I found terribly exciting, until we got to Brisbane, where there are crossing everywhere of course. Which means, standing at a crossing, you hear the whooshing noise, start to cross before seeing the red man ahead of you and realising the whoosh is from a different crossing.
Seeing as the system was designed for blind people I consider this a major design flaw.
Anyway, I'm going to go now. We are cooking dinner for Michael and Mel tonight and want to make sure it is stunning.
Lizziexxx
Oh by the way I had a haircut. It's very short now.
