Moving on – back to Brisbane

We woke this morning with a feeling of anticipation. Excited about moving on from Geelong to Brisbane yet a little sad that this move means that our adventure is nearing the end soon. 3 more nights in a house near Brisbane before we leave to fly home on Thursday.

We were up and about fairly early, ready to leave the house at 9am. Arrived at Melbourne airport early enough to get seated together and grab a bite to eat before flying at midday. Typically, the weather in Melbourne had picked up and it had developed into a lovely sunny (warm!) morning before we left. We were just hoping our weather fortunes would hold up in Queensland (which is, typically, hotter)

The boys love the airport. They’ve become airport fans since we’ve visited so many on our trip (7 different ones to date!)

The domestic airports are great as you can get so close to the planes while you wait!

The boys at Melbourne Domestic waiting for our Virgin Blue flight

A Funky Quantas Plane

The flight passed uneventfully (and quickly. I can’t get over how fast these 2 hour flights are!) and we arrived in Brisbane at about 1pm (local time. We lost an hour as Brisbane is -1 hr compared to Melbourne)

We collected our hire car – a gold Mitsubishi Magna Estate thing which wasn’t quite as luxurious as the Nissan X-Trail we’d had for 2 weeks in Melbourne but was a fair bit better than the previous car we’d hired from Brisbane – and headed to our new ‘home’ for 3 nights (via McDonalds as, by this point, it was around 2.30pm (and 3.30pm to our stomachs) and we were starving!)

The house is ok. Nothing special really and the area is just ‘ok’. The house is 3 bedrooms at least, which is something as it means the boys, for the first time in 3 weeks, don’t need to share a room! It’s dated but it’ll do. It’s not as if we plan to spend our days here anyway.

The weather was overcast (how DARE it?!) although 27+ degrees so, after stocking up on a few basic groceries, we took a drive out to locate the beaches. I have to admit we were a bit disappointed with what we found. A far cry from the tropical Bribie beaches. Nik said it was a “Bridlington Beach” and, trust me, that’s NO compliment!

We’ll investigate more sometime as we’re definitely planning a beach day before we go home.

It’s gotta be done, eh?

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