I forgot to post this, but this was the situation about the whole APEC thing that I wrote about earlier. This is a must-watch. Enjoy!
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
I ♥ Brizzy
So now I'm on Brisbane! Which was where I spent the most time in Australia since this is where my "good mate" John lives. This will take multiple entries since we did a lot here, but to start. I arrived in Brisbane on Monday evening (9/3) and stayed until the next Monday morning. So here's the thing. Australia has been in a severe drought for the past 7 or 8 years. You're not allowed to use city water for your gardens (or as we'd call them in America, lawns) and you're supposed to take 4 minute showers. The drought situation, apparently is quite bad. However, as it would have it, as soon as I arrived in Brisbane, it started to rain and continued to rain until Friday night, when I did my anti-rain dance and miraculously enough, it stopped. This is how I discovered that I am a superhero with a power over rain. (Ya-ta!) John said if it kept up, he wasn't going to let me leave until the dams filled up.
Honestly though, I have literally had a dark cloud over my head for some years. I used to drive down to LA from SF when I was in college and the clouds were literally following me as I drove and the rain would come down south with me and then follow me back up after the weekend. And when I moved to LA in 2004, we had the rainiest winter we had in a very long time, remember? Also, some Londoners have claimed that we had more rain this year than before. (Which was like rain ALL THE TIME.) And the Korean monsoon season lasted extra long this year...just for me! BUT, once I discovered my powers and did my anti-rain dance, it all stopped! It stopped raining in Brizzy, and it was clear in Sydney. Honolulu had been predicted for rain, but after I did my dance, I checked the forecast again and it changed to clear skies (we had half a day of rain). Also, since I've arrived, Los Angeles has been ridiculously sunny. I broke the curse! (Although now Los Angeles is about to go into a drought...)
Anyhow, back to Brisbane.
So I stayed with John and his lovely family - Marcel (otherwise known as Mum), Robert and Petey (the dog). And they cooked up the barbie or whatever Aussies call it. It actually means BBQ, but they call that barbie. (I was a little confused because what Barbie had to do with food was beyond me.) It's weird because John's mum and dad are the epitome of the word "lovely" yet they supposedly bred John. Still, I'm glad that John somehow got lost and made it into this family because they're much nicer than his birth parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hitler. :)
My second night in Brisbane, John and I drove up to the Gold Coast area to see the AUSTRALIA OUTBACK SPECTACULAR! which is this super-touristy themed dinner and show about the Australian outback. It's super gimmicky and tacky, and you all know how much I love stuff like that. Poor John. He actually ended up liking it somewhat, too, and funny enough, he actually ended up being in the show! One of the guys who worked there singled him out when we walked in to be in some competition that's part of the show where he had to carry a boat made out of beer. (Kind of weird, yes, but John won!) It was really fun.
Another day, I went to GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art) with Mum because I wanted to see the Aboriginal artwork. I learned a lot about Aboriginals on my trip (more about that in Sydney), although I also unintentionally picked up a lot of derogatory terms as well. (Ah-hem...John.) The GoMA was really great. The Aboriginal art was great and there were also some pieces by Asian-Australians, which I thought were interesting as well.
A rather cynical, although perhaps somewhat true piece called "What They Wanted."
So I'm at the GoMA, wandering around, looking at art, thinking that John's at work like he should be, when he of course appears like magic. Honestly, this guy's just everywhere. Even now, back in Orange County, I feel like he's gonna appear out of nowhere.
John and I went on the CityCats, which are these boats that go up and down the river.
John doing "Icky moss!"
Me and John inside the CityCat. (Since it was still raining because of Hurricane Jen.) There was this family with three boys sitting in front of us. One of the kids was the most hyperactive, talkative kid in the world. He was hilarious.
Me and my buddy John! Doesn't he look nice in a suit? Not all bogun like he usually does. :P JK
Me at a wine bar we went to with one of John's mates.
So John works during the day so I decided to go on another tour group thing for the day to the Gold Coast region. Here's me on the river boat. It wasn't really that fun since there's just basically a lot of multi-million dollar houses (Australian real estate prices are insane).
Also, I ended up on the geriatric tour. Everyone on the tour, I swear, was over 70 years old other than a group of college kids from Hong Kong and Taiwan who are studying in Australia. Here's me with one.
They were kinda weird (here's two of the guys acting out the scene from Titanic), but they were really nice.
Isn't this cool? It's a chapel on a boat.
We stopped by in this quaint little mountain town. Here's me in front of one of the house/shops.
Then the tour took us to another rain forest or botanical garden kind of place where we were to walk around. Most of the old people couldn't walk very far so it was a really short little stop.
Me and my Asian touristo friends. (They "Icky Moss" too.)
So that's Brisbane up until Friday. Stay tuned for next entry where John and I go up north to the Sunshine Coast to the zoo!
Honestly though, I have literally had a dark cloud over my head for some years. I used to drive down to LA from SF when I was in college and the clouds were literally following me as I drove and the rain would come down south with me and then follow me back up after the weekend. And when I moved to LA in 2004, we had the rainiest winter we had in a very long time, remember? Also, some Londoners have claimed that we had more rain this year than before. (Which was like rain ALL THE TIME.) And the Korean monsoon season lasted extra long this year...just for me! BUT, once I discovered my powers and did my anti-rain dance, it all stopped! It stopped raining in Brizzy, and it was clear in Sydney. Honolulu had been predicted for rain, but after I did my dance, I checked the forecast again and it changed to clear skies (we had half a day of rain). Also, since I've arrived, Los Angeles has been ridiculously sunny. I broke the curse! (Although now Los Angeles is about to go into a drought...)
Anyhow, back to Brisbane.
So I stayed with John and his lovely family - Marcel (otherwise known as Mum), Robert and Petey (the dog). And they cooked up the barbie or whatever Aussies call it. It actually means BBQ, but they call that barbie. (I was a little confused because what Barbie had to do with food was beyond me.) It's weird because John's mum and dad are the epitome of the word "lovely" yet they supposedly bred John. Still, I'm glad that John somehow got lost and made it into this family because they're much nicer than his birth parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hitler. :)
My second night in Brisbane, John and I drove up to the Gold Coast area to see the AUSTRALIA OUTBACK SPECTACULAR! which is this super-touristy themed dinner and show about the Australian outback. It's super gimmicky and tacky, and you all know how much I love stuff like that. Poor John. He actually ended up liking it somewhat, too, and funny enough, he actually ended up being in the show! One of the guys who worked there singled him out when we walked in to be in some competition that's part of the show where he had to carry a boat made out of beer. (Kind of weird, yes, but John won!) It was really fun.
Another day, I went to GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art) with Mum because I wanted to see the Aboriginal artwork. I learned a lot about Aboriginals on my trip (more about that in Sydney), although I also unintentionally picked up a lot of derogatory terms as well. (Ah-hem...John.) The GoMA was really great. The Aboriginal art was great and there were also some pieces by Asian-Australians, which I thought were interesting as well.
A rather cynical, although perhaps somewhat true piece called "What They Wanted."
So I'm at the GoMA, wandering around, looking at art, thinking that John's at work like he should be, when he of course appears like magic. Honestly, this guy's just everywhere. Even now, back in Orange County, I feel like he's gonna appear out of nowhere.
John and I went on the CityCats, which are these boats that go up and down the river.
John doing "Icky moss!"
Me and John inside the CityCat. (Since it was still raining because of Hurricane Jen.) There was this family with three boys sitting in front of us. One of the kids was the most hyperactive, talkative kid in the world. He was hilarious.
Me and my buddy John! Doesn't he look nice in a suit? Not all bogun like he usually does. :P JK
Me at a wine bar we went to with one of John's mates.
So John works during the day so I decided to go on another tour group thing for the day to the Gold Coast region. Here's me on the river boat. It wasn't really that fun since there's just basically a lot of multi-million dollar houses (Australian real estate prices are insane).
Also, I ended up on the geriatric tour. Everyone on the tour, I swear, was over 70 years old other than a group of college kids from Hong Kong and Taiwan who are studying in Australia. Here's me with one.
They were kinda weird (here's two of the guys acting out the scene from Titanic), but they were really nice.
Isn't this cool? It's a chapel on a boat.
We stopped by in this quaint little mountain town. Here's me in front of one of the house/shops.
Then the tour took us to another rain forest or botanical garden kind of place where we were to walk around. Most of the old people couldn't walk very far so it was a really short little stop.
Me and my Asian touristo friends. (They "Icky Moss" too.)
So that's Brisbane up until Friday. Stay tuned for next entry where John and I go up north to the Sunshine Coast to the zoo!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Melbourne
It's my last hour in Australia and I'm sitting in the Qantas lounge drinking champagne courtesy of John and all his first class travels. :) I want to try to catch up on my blog, but I'm already so behind it's very doubtful. Last time, we left off at me and Tom in Melbourne.
So after John took off, I wandered around Melbourne by myself. Melbourne's such a cool city. It was my favorite of the three (Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney).
I went to Victoria Market, which wasn't that great compared to China since you know everything there is made in China but just costs more because it's in Australia. It's so hard to pay normal prices after paying Chinese prices.
Then I walked down Swanston Street, shopping and sightseeing, and at Federation Square, I caught the Circle Tram which goes around the perimeter of Melbourne city center. It's free! Isn't that nice?
Melbourne during the day.
Melbourne at night.
I caught a free art exhibition called Experimental Playground on Southbank, which was really good and made me miss Magda since I thought she'd really love it.
The next day, I did the Great Ocean Road tour. The Great Ocean Road is along the southern coast area near Melbourne. Some Australian guy saw the Pacific Coast Highway in Cali and wanted to building something similar in Australia, but because of World War I, he couldn't. But after WWI ended, they used this project to give Australian soldiers something to do when they got back. It's actually really different from the PCH. Most of the area is preserved as a national park and so not a lot of development in the area, so in ways it's a lot nicer than the PCH.
*So I started this entry about a month ago and never finished it because I had to board the plane and then I got back Stateside and kind of abandoned this blog, but I'll finish it up now. Sorry to all for being such a bad blogger, but hey, I kept you entertained for a year and I only made $4 so deal with me on this.
Here are some pictures from the Great Ocean Road tour. I went with a tour company that left really early in the morning. There was me, a Filipino couple, a girl from Singapore who barely said a word, a Canadian guy, and a Dutch guy. And a British lady joined us later.
The Great Ocean Road memorial and sign.
The one-handed portrait I now do so well.
Koalas in the wild. They're hard to spot because they camouflage in the trees and they're ALWAYS sleeping, but they are out there all over Australia in the wild. They really are as cute as they seem.
The Southern Ocean. The water out here is freezing and the waves are so incredibly powerful because it all comes from Antarctica. It's amazing, though. You really feel the strength of the ocean.
I'm on top of the world...or the bottom, really.
The tour takes a detour off the coast inland. Australia is really beautiful because it's so untouched. There are only 20 million people here in all this space, so nature is able to thrive.
Here I am in the rainforest.
Hiding in a tree. The trees just fall on one another and start growing together so you have these cool holes.
Save the rainforest! I'm a tree-hugger.
After the rainforest, we went to the Twelve Apostles, which is what they call these natural limestone stacks. I guess there were 12 of them, but over time, they've crumbled due to the waves. I only counted 8 standing and one crumbled one (which we named Judas).
It's crazy because the shore is just basically been created by these strong waves pounding on it. I guess it's like the Grand Canyon (never been, had many therapy sessions dedicated to that topic...) but it's the ocean shaping a continent. Makes you feel very, very small.
Here is a where I picked up my really annoying "Icky moss!" habit. My tour group kept running into this other Japanese tour group along the Great Ocean Road and we noticed they kept doing the peace sign and saying "Mickey Mouse!" So we started doing it too, but they corrected us and told us it's actually "Icky Moss" (I made up my own spelling) and it means "Here we go" in Japanese. So after that, we all started doing it, and I still refer to picture taking as "Icky Moss time."
Jesus and the Twelve Apostles. (Fellow tourist from my group.)
We also went further down to other limestone stacks and stuff. I don't really understand the whole science of it, but it's really amazing when you see these waves pounding on the rocks and seeing how years, decades, centuries and eons of this has created these crazy shapes.
Water pounding on rocks. It's too hard to capture on camera.
It's so loud and cold.
It's weird being back home writing this and remembering being there. It's weird, but I can still remember standing on those cliffs and hearing the waves pounding against the rocks and the mist of the ocean air being pelted at your face by the strong winds. It's one of those moments when you're just so in awe of nature and God and feel so small and insignificant. I've been home for a couple of weeks now and I still find it so strange that I'm sitting here in Fullerton, CA and all over the world, there are people I love and places I've been where life goes on as usual. How all these things are a part of me and I have left a piece of me (or in the case of Thailand, I've left clothes, shoes, books, and make-up) yet here I am back in the town I grew up in and it's business as usual. It's a feeling so difficult to actually put in words.
Anyhow, that was Melbourne.
So after John took off, I wandered around Melbourne by myself. Melbourne's such a cool city. It was my favorite of the three (Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney).
I went to Victoria Market, which wasn't that great compared to China since you know everything there is made in China but just costs more because it's in Australia. It's so hard to pay normal prices after paying Chinese prices.
Then I walked down Swanston Street, shopping and sightseeing, and at Federation Square, I caught the Circle Tram which goes around the perimeter of Melbourne city center. It's free! Isn't that nice?
Melbourne during the day.
Melbourne at night.
I caught a free art exhibition called Experimental Playground on Southbank, which was really good and made me miss Magda since I thought she'd really love it.
The next day, I did the Great Ocean Road tour. The Great Ocean Road is along the southern coast area near Melbourne. Some Australian guy saw the Pacific Coast Highway in Cali and wanted to building something similar in Australia, but because of World War I, he couldn't. But after WWI ended, they used this project to give Australian soldiers something to do when they got back. It's actually really different from the PCH. Most of the area is preserved as a national park and so not a lot of development in the area, so in ways it's a lot nicer than the PCH.
*So I started this entry about a month ago and never finished it because I had to board the plane and then I got back Stateside and kind of abandoned this blog, but I'll finish it up now. Sorry to all for being such a bad blogger, but hey, I kept you entertained for a year and I only made $4 so deal with me on this.
Here are some pictures from the Great Ocean Road tour. I went with a tour company that left really early in the morning. There was me, a Filipino couple, a girl from Singapore who barely said a word, a Canadian guy, and a Dutch guy. And a British lady joined us later.
The Great Ocean Road memorial and sign.
The one-handed portrait I now do so well.
Koalas in the wild. They're hard to spot because they camouflage in the trees and they're ALWAYS sleeping, but they are out there all over Australia in the wild. They really are as cute as they seem.
The Southern Ocean. The water out here is freezing and the waves are so incredibly powerful because it all comes from Antarctica. It's amazing, though. You really feel the strength of the ocean.
I'm on top of the world...or the bottom, really.
The tour takes a detour off the coast inland. Australia is really beautiful because it's so untouched. There are only 20 million people here in all this space, so nature is able to thrive.
Here I am in the rainforest.
Hiding in a tree. The trees just fall on one another and start growing together so you have these cool holes.
Save the rainforest! I'm a tree-hugger.
After the rainforest, we went to the Twelve Apostles, which is what they call these natural limestone stacks. I guess there were 12 of them, but over time, they've crumbled due to the waves. I only counted 8 standing and one crumbled one (which we named Judas).
It's crazy because the shore is just basically been created by these strong waves pounding on it. I guess it's like the Grand Canyon (never been, had many therapy sessions dedicated to that topic...) but it's the ocean shaping a continent. Makes you feel very, very small.
Here is a where I picked up my really annoying "Icky moss!" habit. My tour group kept running into this other Japanese tour group along the Great Ocean Road and we noticed they kept doing the peace sign and saying "Mickey Mouse!" So we started doing it too, but they corrected us and told us it's actually "Icky Moss" (I made up my own spelling) and it means "Here we go" in Japanese. So after that, we all started doing it, and I still refer to picture taking as "Icky Moss time."
Jesus and the Twelve Apostles. (Fellow tourist from my group.)
We also went further down to other limestone stacks and stuff. I don't really understand the whole science of it, but it's really amazing when you see these waves pounding on the rocks and seeing how years, decades, centuries and eons of this has created these crazy shapes.
Water pounding on rocks. It's too hard to capture on camera.
It's so loud and cold.
It's weird being back home writing this and remembering being there. It's weird, but I can still remember standing on those cliffs and hearing the waves pounding against the rocks and the mist of the ocean air being pelted at your face by the strong winds. It's one of those moments when you're just so in awe of nature and God and feel so small and insignificant. I've been home for a couple of weeks now and I still find it so strange that I'm sitting here in Fullerton, CA and all over the world, there are people I love and places I've been where life goes on as usual. How all these things are a part of me and I have left a piece of me (or in the case of Thailand, I've left clothes, shoes, books, and make-up) yet here I am back in the town I grew up in and it's business as usual. It's a feeling so difficult to actually put in words.
Anyhow, that was Melbourne.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Remember 9/11
It's weird because 9/11 isn't a holiday, but it's a day of significance that when you look at the date today, you know it's the anniversary of something important. But you can't really say "Happy 9/11!" or anything, so it's weird. Yeah...I don't know how to describe it, but I feel like I should post something today. I don't have the energy to post all my Australian adventures yet, because I've done a lot and been really busy the past week and UGH...it's gonna take forever. Anyhow, back to 9/11. It's been six years since our lives have been turned upside down. To go back to September 10, 2001...
Once again, I'm posting a link to the Iraq casualties website. We're at 3,774, ya'll. What's going on?
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx
And here are the names of the 705 soldiers who died in Afghanistan so far:
http://icasualties.org/oef/Afghanistan.aspx
And of course, the 2,996 victims of 9/11:
http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/victims_list.htm
May they all rest in peace, and God bless America.
Once again, I'm posting a link to the Iraq casualties website. We're at 3,774, ya'll. What's going on?
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx
And here are the names of the 705 soldiers who died in Afghanistan so far:
http://icasualties.org/oef/Afghanistan.aspx
And of course, the 2,996 victims of 9/11:
http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/victims_list.htm
May they all rest in peace, and God bless America.
Friday, September 07, 2007
The Chaser's War on W
So I'm not the only famous American in Australia this week. W is also here for the APEC conference in Sydney. (Although he thinks he's in Austria.) And while he's only been here for a couple days, he's already made quite a splash. Today, in a public speech, he thanked the Australian Prime Minister for hosting the OPEC conference. (OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...uhm...) and thanked the Austrian troops for their participation in the war.
Uhm...dude, you're in AUSTRALIA and the organization is called APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). Yeah, it's been a proud day for me as an American in Australia.
In other news, there's a TV show on public television channel, ABC, out here called The Chaser's War on Everything that my friend John is a huge fan of. I personally hate this show because the love to take the piss at Americans. But this week's season premiere wasn't bad since it only made fun of W, and he's fair game. Anyhow, for next week's episode, the Chaser boys pulled a stunt in which they got through the APEC security posing as the Canadian motorcade driving in Osama Bin Laden to the APEC conference. After getting through two security check points, the Chasers were arrested and charged.
The thing is...Canada isn't even a member of APEC! And their badges were completely fake. The network's legal team cleared the stunt because they thought there were enough precautions (such as the Canadian flags and security badges that stated that they were fake) that would prevent the Chasers from actually getting through the security points.
The Australian police stated today that the Chasers were lucky they weren't shot by the snipers posted in the area. The Chasers replied that the police were lucky that they weren't actually Al Qaeda...
Here are some other Chaser's clips courtesy of Youtube:
Enjoy! More on the rest of my trip later...
Uhm...dude, you're in AUSTRALIA and the organization is called APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). Yeah, it's been a proud day for me as an American in Australia.
In other news, there's a TV show on public television channel, ABC, out here called The Chaser's War on Everything that my friend John is a huge fan of. I personally hate this show because the love to take the piss at Americans. But this week's season premiere wasn't bad since it only made fun of W, and he's fair game. Anyhow, for next week's episode, the Chaser boys pulled a stunt in which they got through the APEC security posing as the Canadian motorcade driving in Osama Bin Laden to the APEC conference. After getting through two security check points, the Chasers were arrested and charged.
The thing is...Canada isn't even a member of APEC! And their badges were completely fake. The network's legal team cleared the stunt because they thought there were enough precautions (such as the Canadian flags and security badges that stated that they were fake) that would prevent the Chasers from actually getting through the security points.
The Australian police stated today that the Chasers were lucky they weren't shot by the snipers posted in the area. The Chasers replied that the police were lucky that they weren't actually Al Qaeda...
Here are some other Chaser's clips courtesy of Youtube:
Enjoy! More on the rest of my trip later...
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Me and Tom in Melbourne
G'Day Mates! I'm in Australia. I've never actually ever thought I'd come Down Under, but I had to come visit my friend First Class John. John has made several appearances on expatriatejen.com in the past in Beijing, London, Praha and Wien. Here's a John recap:
In Beijing with Cai.
At London Heathrow on my birthday.
In Praha on the worst river cruise in history.
On a overnight train to Vienna.
In Wien.
John also arranged for his friend Tom to show me around Melbourne.
Does Tom look a little familiar? YES, it's JOHN! (Yeah, I know, all white people look alike.) John surprised me in Melbourne Friday night. He had a business meeting in Tansmania and he flew up to visit me...and he flew BUDGET! *GASP* First class John flew on a BUDGET AIRLINE FLIGHT! He's still quite traumatized from the experience. Apparently there was a stewardess sitting in a jump seat right in front of him during take-off which disturbed him (He didn't realize before that flight attendants board the plane with you. He thought they were angels from the sky that just appeared from behind some curtain after take-off.) and they didn't give him champagne (how are you supposed to fly without champagne?!).
So Tom and I had a great time in Melbourne. We had dinner on Southbank at Number 8 and then watched the crazy flame torches that are along the river by the casino.
At Number 8.
Every hour there's a flame show with small flames like this.
But sometimes it's huge flames like that! If Melbourne ever burns down, I now know why.
Then we went into the casino and I bet my first $5 Aussie dollars that John gave me (well, actually, the first $5 John gave me in Beijing are gone because it was in my purse when it was stolen in the East End, but John gave me another $5 last winter when we were travelling Europe) on roulette. I thought I'd hit the jackpot, buy some magazines, start censoring like mad, and become the next Rupert Murdoch, but no such luck.
The next day, John and I took the tram to St. Kilda where we had breakfast on Acland Street and then John went from shop to shop getting gluten-free cookies.
Me and John on the beach.
Me!
John and I took the tram back to the city center or the CBD (Central Business District) as Aussies call it. We went to Swanston Street to David Jones, walked around, and walked back over to Southbank so John could get his bag and head to the airport since he had to go back to Brisbane.
Thanks for showing me around town, Tom. I think I like you better than John. ;D But of course I don't, because John flew BUDGET just for me!
In Beijing with Cai.
At London Heathrow on my birthday.
In Praha on the worst river cruise in history.
On a overnight train to Vienna.
In Wien.
John also arranged for his friend Tom to show me around Melbourne.
Does Tom look a little familiar? YES, it's JOHN! (Yeah, I know, all white people look alike.) John surprised me in Melbourne Friday night. He had a business meeting in Tansmania and he flew up to visit me...and he flew BUDGET! *GASP* First class John flew on a BUDGET AIRLINE FLIGHT! He's still quite traumatized from the experience. Apparently there was a stewardess sitting in a jump seat right in front of him during take-off which disturbed him (He didn't realize before that flight attendants board the plane with you. He thought they were angels from the sky that just appeared from behind some curtain after take-off.) and they didn't give him champagne (how are you supposed to fly without champagne?!).
So Tom and I had a great time in Melbourne. We had dinner on Southbank at Number 8 and then watched the crazy flame torches that are along the river by the casino.
At Number 8.
Every hour there's a flame show with small flames like this.
But sometimes it's huge flames like that! If Melbourne ever burns down, I now know why.
Then we went into the casino and I bet my first $5 Aussie dollars that John gave me (well, actually, the first $5 John gave me in Beijing are gone because it was in my purse when it was stolen in the East End, but John gave me another $5 last winter when we were travelling Europe) on roulette. I thought I'd hit the jackpot, buy some magazines, start censoring like mad, and become the next Rupert Murdoch, but no such luck.
The next day, John and I took the tram to St. Kilda where we had breakfast on Acland Street and then John went from shop to shop getting gluten-free cookies.
Me and John on the beach.
Me!
John and I took the tram back to the city center or the CBD (Central Business District) as Aussies call it. We went to Swanston Street to David Jones, walked around, and walked back over to Southbank so John could get his bag and head to the airport since he had to go back to Brisbane.
Thanks for showing me around town, Tom. I think I like you better than John. ;D But of course I don't, because John flew BUDGET just for me!
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