Brisbane

After our sydney tour we got into brisbane at night and were picked up by Grace and Joymun uncle.  We got to stay in their huge house just outside the city.  That night I was beat after we had some tea and chatted.  Cecil stayed up with Vineeth and Moheeth, his cousins.

The next morning we had a wonderful Australia breakfast on the BBQ.  Tasty Egyptian eggs (Eggs cooked in toast), sausages, bacon, toast, and tomatoes.  Stuffed is the appropriate word for how I felt after that.  Then we traveled out to the Gold Coast and got to see a couple of different beaches and take 2 fabulous walks.  We stopped at one of the best gluten-free cafe's I've ever been to for afternoon tea.  Then, back to the house for some of the best butter chicken I've ever had and games for the night.  We had brought some and his uncle's family plays games already.  We had hours of family fun.  We stayed up a little late but not to late as the next morning we had church.

                                           
                                                    (Grace and Joymon Uncle fixing breakfast)

                                                                    (out at the Gold Coast)

                             (Moheeth and Cecil Jumping on the Australian Equivalent of a bounce house)

                                                                          ( The View)

                                                                          ( Surf's Up!)

                                                         (Joymon Uncle taking a break)

                                                              (More animals)

(Dinner Time) 

Church was a nice contemperary church.  Apparently Moheeth even plays the drums for the church sometimes.  After church we hot footed it to chinatown to a dims sum restaurant.  We got in at the perfect time and got seated right sway.  Within a 1/2 hour there was a huge line of people so go us!  The foot was great we got to try everything from dumpling soup dumplings (Dumplings with the soup inside them so when you eat them they burst open in your mouth), to chicken feet, and my favorite red bean buns.  After stuffing our faces, we headed to see a lookout point of the city and to drive a round a bit.  Unfortunately, we came at a bad time and a storm was rolling in.  In fact later that night it was terrible with major flooding.  Basically we played games all night that night which suited cec and I just fine.  The next morning we had a 5AM flight so we just got up and flew home.  We wished we had more time as we had such a BLAST there.

                                                                   (Playing games)

                                                                         (Dim Sum)

                                                               (Mount Coot-tha Lookout)

                                                                     

                                                       (Family Photo- with Mushu the dog!)