It's been a little while since I've posted, but school has been keeping me fairly busy lately. I have a test and a paper due next week and two more papers due by the end of September. This month is going to be fairly intense for school work. The good news is that once all of this is over I get to go to New Zealand!
Last weekend, Jordan and I went up to Mt. Coot-tha to walk around the botanical gardens there. There's also a lookout over the city, but we didn't want to wait an hour for another bus, so that didn't happen. The gardens were nice, nothing super exciting though. Pictures are posted on Flickr.
This weekend was great! The Brisbane Riverfestival is going on right now and every year they put on a huge fireworks show called Riverfire. We went down to the market in West End and then over to Cole's in the morning to do our weekly grocery shopping and then headed over the South Bank. We set up a spot on the steps overlooking the river and settled in to wait. There were a decent number of people waiting for the fireworks by the time we arrived around 1 pm, but it wasn't overly crowded. Becca and Beth joined us shortly after we arrived and were followed by Leslie, Dani (on spring break from Tasmania), Brittany (on spring break from New Zealand), and two of Dani's friends. More friends and acquaintances from the apartments showed up as the day went on. We played cards and chatted. Got a little bit of a tan while hanging out in my swimsuit. We were all getting pretty anxious for the show to start around 5 or so. They had some Air Force planes do a fly-over a little after 5 to get things started before the 7 pm fireworks. By about 6:30 it was impossible to move anywhere on the banks of the river. I think pretty much every person in Brisbane turned out to see the show.
The fireworks started just past 7 and were sychronized to music playing from a radio station. There were 3 barges in the river as well as fireworks being shot off from 3 bridges and a few of the buildings downtown. It was hard to know where to look after it started because there were fireworks everywhere! This was the best fireworks show I've ever seen and I had such an awesome time yesterday. My camera didn't do so well at taking pictures of the fireworks, but I tried anyway. Pictures from the day are posted on Flickr.
I probably won't have much to post over the next month or so. It's likely I'll just have tons of studying to do and not many opportunities to get out and do stuff. Hope you all enjoy the pictures!
Also, keep New Orleans in your thoughts. One of my best friends is being evacuated from Tulane. Hopefully they're wrong about Gustav being worse than Katrina!
That's all for now. Love and miss you all!
Nicole
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