So Brisbane still continues to bore the pants off of me! Sunday was super boring. It was deader than usual but the sun was out. I was supposed to meet Lynsey for lunch but she bailed on me so I wandered around the CBD a little and just ended up chilling in the hostel. There's some really nice people staying here which makes up for the lameness of this city. Some of the hostels I've stayed in the people haven't been too chatty or maybe that was just me not being sociable before! I was all for getting into my PJs and watching a movie in bed but the other Sarah convinced me to go out to the Victory Pub with them. It was an alright bar with an outdoor dancefloor (the noise police wouldn't have that in England!). I was plenty warm enough but some of the kiwis and aussies we were with were freezing and dancing in their coats. Crazy people! The band was playing rock cover versions which was all well and good until the drummer completely screwed up the end of Are You Gonna Be My Girl. That's just totally unacceptable in my eyes.
Yesterday was also pretty uneventful. I spent the morning in the office, using the wifi! I bumped into Michelle and Amy there who are still jobhunting. I still can't believe they've gone and got flats without even knowing what they're going to be earning or anything. I must think backwards to the rest of them! I'd had an email from a lady in Surfer's Paradise (which sounds exactly my kind of place) saying they were having interviews this week so I need to head down there as soon as I can get it organised. I was planning on heading that way soon anyway so it's not like it's an inconvenience.
When I'd done in the office, I headed over to Southbank and had a burger for my lunch...and was almost decapitated by an ibis! Evil birds. There's signs everywhere telling you not to feed them and the dosey woman on the table next to me was holding out her chips to them. Is she mental? Have you seen the size of them? They're horrid things with absolutely massive beaks and the red feathers on the back of their heads make it look like their brains are hanging out. Disgusting. Why anyone would actively share their chips with them I'll never know.
Speaking of chips, when I got mine I asked for some salt and the guy behind the counter asked if I wanted the regular kind or chicken salt. What on Earth is chicken salt? I get an image of ground up chicken bones in a salt shaker! If anyone knows any different please enlighten me!
Obviously while I was at Southbank I had to go to Cold Rocks Ice Creamery again and make a new flavour combination. This time I went for cake batter flavoured ice cream with "freckles" (what Ozians call the chocolate buttons with sprinkles) and yet again I think I've made another genius flavour combination! It was so nice, maybe not as scrumptious as the cookie dough and cheesecake combo but I reckon a scoop of each would make a really awesome sundae. I went for a stroll by the river eating my delicious ice cream concotion and bumped into the hugest lizard I've ever seen outside of a zoo! When I was in Florida there were little geckos running around everywhere but this fella was well on his way to dinosaur proportions...well, baby dinosaur any way. I want to say it was a bearded dragon but I have no way to confim this, not even photographic evidence, so you'll have to take my word for it. He was so cute, basking away on the river bank, soaking up the sun with all the uni students. I wish I could've taken him home with me but I don't think he'd get through immigration. Poor guy.
After saying goodbye to my new mate I headed over the bridge to the botanic gardens where I did a little basking in the sun myself and read a little. With it being winter it starts getting getting chillier by four o'clock so I had to head back over to the hostel and spent my evening in my pjs, eating cookie dough and watching movies. I'm so rockstar it hurts.
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