Brisbane - Day 1

The boys watching t.v. and Jeff reading the paper.

Actually, since we only flew into Brisbane but are staying on the Gold Coast I will have to change the title of this week to “Gold Coast”. Our rental car was almost an Audi (since they were all out of the standard size car that we reserved)….but he didn’t think it would fit 5 of us so we got a Skoda Superb hatchback instead. It is a sweet ride. It has the sensors at the front and back that detect if you are going to back into or hit something – Jeff wants to test it on one of the kids but I won’t let him. It also has the auto parallel park, which we haven’t tried yet. It took just over an hour to drive from the airport to our apartment. There is a double set of bunk beds in the one room so the kids all get to room together. How fun – just like camp!!

Kristen in the kids bedroom

It is a really nice place though, we have a view of the ocean from our balcony and breakfast nook…well, really it’s a view of ‘The Broadwater’ and it’s an inlet but it is all ocean water! Since it’s a drizzly day, and is forecasted to stay that way, we head to the Harbour Outlet Mall. Kristen and I do a little shopping while the boys go to see Rise of Planet of the Apes. The cost for a Saturday matinee: $14.95 each for the boys and $16.95 for Jeff, the look on my face: priceless.