Still

Brisbane, Queensland

Australia

Sitting in the library, hovered over my laptop, cackling like a mad woman over Aunt Shawnee and Uncle Ron's e-mail's; completely ruining the quiet library atmosphere.

Currently trapped in the library. As it began, it had to have been ninety degrees here and so I went touring, like the tourists do, and I was in a great gallery all day. I go to walk out and the sky is falling. As I'm standing there in the comfort of the gallery, watching people in shorts and tank tops run for cover as if it's the end of the world.

As I looked down at my shorts and tank top I decided to take another lap around the gallery until the storm was over.

By the way, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA to those in the know, WHAT a HIDEOUS abbreviation), had an amazing fashion display. Three rooms of Easton Pearson's clothes. Fabulous.

And these were totally in the exhibit. I was like a kid in a candy store. A really mean candy store where you can't touch or afford the candy. Boo.

So you know how everyone was dying to know which way the water goes when you flush a toilet here.... Here's my much anticipated answer:

I just don't know.

And not for a lack of trying to answer this truly riveting question. I find myself, even when in a drunken state, whipping around to inspect which way the toilet flushes. I'm disturbingly fixated on this problem and it's become an obsession that I'm somewhat ashamed of. It goes straight down, I've yet to encounter an ancient enough toilet that does otherwise.

Although, now that I think of it, I guess I could just see which way the water goes in the sink. Hmmm. Wow. A month and a half I've been here. Have you heard? I'm a college graduate.

I went abseiling recently. I'm leaving a link to a youtube video of abseiling below so you can get an idea of what it is. This video is of Kangaroo Point, which is where I did it BUT I only did the descent part. And it wasn't at night. And I did it by myself. So really, it's nothing like the following video, so here goes nothing.

The video refers to abseiling as a "piece of cake." LIES! That wasn't cake at all! I've never been on the verge of tears, wind and rocks coming at me like hail while eating cake! Speaking of which, I could really go for some cake....

Not the point! Abseiling was really scary the first time, because you go off the side of the cliff backwards and you have to be ninety degrees from the side of the cliff before you can start walking down it. It feels completely unnatural.

BUT after the first time it was really fun. Still scary, but once I knew I wasn't going to die a comical death at a place ridiculously named "Kangaroo Point," then it was fun.

And I saw the Deep Blue Orchestra. Excellent. They're this completely nontraditional orchestra that put on a fantastic show. They play their instruments while dancing, and they wear costumes. And they were so good to the audience, they have you text in requests and they encourage videoing and taking pictures. It was so fun. I took like 80 videos. Ok, 8, but still, that was like all of my camera memory.

And I went to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary!

So get this, when I was next in line, the snake totally peed on the like nine year old boy in front of me. It was sooooo gross. It seriously looked like throw up. Eww. And the staff was like on the floor laughing so hard, and the boy looked like he was going to pass out. I mean, it's bad enough when you're holding a snake, you're already kind of in a vulnerable position. But then it pees on you. There's just no preparing for that.

And that cute cuddly Koala Bear, not so sweet! It was adorable, but it was like digging it's cute little CLAWS into me the whole time. And there I am, Smile!!! while the mascot of Australia pierces the skin. I totally have scratches from that little sucker. Hopefully that wasn't the one with Chlamydia. Because oh ya, koalas can carry Chlamydia. Kinda slutty.

Other than that I walk around a lot. Every once in a while when I'm crossing a bridge I see the majestic CityCats parting the Brisbane River. And in the corner, I shake my fist at said "cats."

LOVE you guys!!!! I always look forward to hearing from you. Going to go see City Hall today. Apparently there is a clock tower that the people of Brisbane are all excited about.

Oh ya, and I'm still in Brisbane. I originally booked my hostel for like 3 days, and I think I've been here for like 3 weeks now. Leaving tomorrow for Noosa. I believe I'm in for more beaches. Life is tough that way....

XOXO