Brisbane, the town of big lattes

Monday night was our last night with the surf crew and nothing could have made it any better than spending it at Cheeky Monkey's. Everyone who was still in town met up for a cheap dinner just before the place turns into a club. We all danced the night away, again... but Meagan and I made it a decently early night so we could get up in time for our bus to Brisbane in the morning.











Brisbane... there isn't much to say about it... which is why we named it the city of big lattes. Meagan and I arrived around 3pm on Anzac Day (a national holiday) and everything was closed. We checked into a hostel named Palace Backpackers which was pretty much only cool because it was in a building build in 1802. The elevator was one of those super old ones that has the sliding metal doors and the entire elevator is a cage. Yikes! Really creepy.




This is the Anzac Day Memorial in Brisbane ... conveniently we came across it by accident on Anzac Day!






We ate lunch in a Starbucks-esque shop, "The Coffee Club" which had such nice food that we ended up eating a total of 3 (out of 5 total) meals there plus got a take-away coffee!!

We visited the Museum of Art on Tuesday and tooled around the city on Wednesday. We tried to be cultural and visit the Newstead House which is a refurbished home from the Victorian era that housed the American Army during WWII (when we were helping Australia). When we finally got there via public transport it was 4:01pm and apparently the house closed at 4pm! grr...




Museum of Art






















So basically the two highlights were playing with a dog that belonged to two old people and then talking to them and seeing the monument dedicated to America for it's support in the war which was really awesome. Lastly, we took a walk through Queensland's Casino which ironically enough was in the old treasury building! It was definitely different to the casinos in Vegas since it each game was separated into tiny rooms like an old house.






Scenic view at sunset in Brisbane