Pretending to be clever

I was a proper culture vulture yesterday. After dutifully spending the morning in the office job hunting I popped to McDonald's for lunch. On the floor above Maccy's there's a cake shop where the chocolate mud cake had been giving me the eye for a few days so I treated myself to a slice. I should've saved my money. I make nicer cakes than that and I can't even cook!

I decided to head over to Southbank again for the afternoon because it's the only place I actually like in Brisbane. On the way over the bridge I had a moment of genius. The little ferry boats are called City Cats and it's kind of perplexed me as to why because cats don't like water, right? LIGHT BULB! It's short for catamaran! It's only my favorite word and I didn't even frickin' notice. Silly Sarah! Whether it was because I was feeling particularly intelligent after that or if it was the recommendation from Nicky, one of the guys in my dorm, I'll never know, but I decided to head to the Queensland Museum. It was an alright museum. There was an aboriginal section and an exhibit dedicated to all things Queensland but the best bits were the airplanes and the dinosaur skeleton. Everyone loves a good dinosaur skeleton! This one was a muttaburrasaurus. I've never heard of it before but it was pretty cool. Upstairs was the "zoo" full of loads of taxidermy animals which kind of freakedme out, especially the collection of dead beetles. They just look like they're about to come to life and start crawling all over you!

I must have been feeling quite clever after that because I decided to visit the art galleries as well whilst I was in the area and accidentally stumbled on the coolest place in Brisbane! It's called Whale Mall and it's a hall between the museum and art gallery, which are both really ugly grey box buildings so the hall would be really ugly too if it wasn't for the giant humpback whales hanging from the ceiling! Whale song music was pumped through the sound system and it was just really surreal to be outside, not expecting anything and all of a sudden a whale appears! I loved it!

The art galleries were pretty cool too. The modern one had some really pretty Aboriginal paintings in it from the Torres Straits and the other one (non-modern?) had loads of random water features around the place. All in all a good day. I felt well clever afterwards and even used my brain power to resist going over to Cold Rocks again for more ice cream. Go me!