Snapshots from Brisbane Part 2
Jan 22, 2012 by Violet
Following on from yesterday’s Part One post about our trip to Brisbane here’s Part Two! The bonus shots are all up on the Facebook page now so click to have a look if you still want more even after all of these haha!
Clearly Bergamot didn’t mind the bugs in the spa as much as I did ;)
| We woke up bright, early and ready to do fun things the next morning. It’s really hard not to wake up early when you’re boyfriend refuses to close the curtains so he can photograph the sunrise >_<
This is the furnace that James had so much trouble lighting. To be honest it really wasn’t particularly cold but I think his need to light it was more of a masculine thing >_<
This is the chair that just about every one who visited our cabin fell off of! Stupidest design ever, if you even leaned slightly left or right it would over balance on the front leg XD
We spent the morning at James’ parents cabin
In the end we took a trip to the Maleny Handicraft Markets which were full of interesting and delicious things. James bought some home made jam, I bought a home made pie. YUM. We were excited to see there was a competition but less excited when it was for children under 12. Bergamot made a little friend though, the loveliest lady ever was holding a stall where she made tiny little stuffed animals and she gave me a little rabbit to be friends with Bergamot. I can’t find the photo of it at the moment so I’ll take some more and include them in the next Snapshots. Seriously it’s adorable though.
We found this lizard hiding under one of the cars *_*
Next we all headed to a French cafe for lunch, I ate a lot of food on this trip :D
There were beautiful roses everywhere inside and it was actually a flower and garden shop outside too.
James’ Dad bought me the prettiest bracelet as a present from the markets! Totally love it and totally love that one of the charms is a sack of money :D I think it’s telling me I should get a striped jumpsuit and start robbing banks!
I had a camembert and cranberry baguette. LOVE everything about camembert.
James’ Dad loved the bowl of coffee because it reminded him of when he lived in France. I couldn’t imagine drinking a bowl of coffee!
On the way home James pulled over so he could take pretty panoramas.
I was less interesting and took photos of cows…
The drive home was quite dangerous because it stormed the whole time but we made it in one piece.
So everyone celebrated with fudge and cheese that we bought from a factory up the mountain :D
A mouse (who I suspect was named James) took a bite out of my camembert >:( Damn James shaped mice.
Courtney and James remained classy by giving each other temporary tattoos in the most badass way they could. Then we had a nice big pre-Christmas dinner.
Omg seriously I have problems saying no to food.
James has problems saying no to key lime pie.
This was the pie I bought at the markets!
I played my theme song on their piano and failed pretty miserably XD
The next day we drove into the city to meet up with a lot of friends and eat even more. We stopped in at my favorite restaurant of all time: Kwan Yin Tea House.
It’s still as delicious as I remember it!
It’s vegetarian but they have fake meat, so the first time I took James there I was sure he would hate it and I lied and told him it was real meat XD He loved it so much he was all “OMG LET’S COME BACK TOMORROW!”. It was hilarious telling him it was actually all fake! Fake pork with maple syrup, YUM!
So much food and so cheap too!
They have a photoboard for people who’ve eaten the most food haha, the most any one person has ordered is $64.10 XD
I’m even up the back of one of the photos because we had a party there once! This was back when I wore Lolita, I’m in the middle with black hair in white/blue.
The lady who owns it is so nice too, when I told her how much I missed the food she gave me the card of her best friend who owns a restaurant in Melbourne to go try!
Some Brisbane architecture to break it all up a bit, this is my favorite building in town.
We went to my Dad’s house after that where in James and Dad talked about boring camera stuff.
I was more interested in his dog Ruby :D
Typically when I tell him to take a photo with Bergamot this is what I get.
A few days earlier James was trying to take a nice portrait of us with a flower and this happened. No idea where I get it from.
More Brisbane architecture. I think the old buildings are fewer and far between than Melbourne but they are still nice!
Classiest photo of James EVER.
We wandered around the city for a while and took in all of the pretty decorations. It was funny how everything had changed but also nothing had really changed in the year and a half we’ve been gone.
We then had coffee with the awesome Yolly from Shopping Intervention, some of the other Bris bloggers were going to come too but I think it was a bit late by the time we found a place.
After that was dinner at Pancake Manor with Susie and Zac, we had such fond memories of this place but it’s gone really down hill :(
It used to be that the service was terrible (like we waited over an hour to have our order taken before walking out once) but the food was great, now the service has improved (they asked about our meal like 5 times) but the food sucked >_<
Zac and James unintentionally dressed to match :D
Too cute!
We bought cotton candy from a vending machine while it played the song “I want Candy”. Best $2 I ever spent :D
Then we got to visit Susie’s new place and see her creepy light fixture of evilness.
Cutest couple ever.
On the last day I continued my long running feud with Karl the Magpie at James’ parents house. He tried to swoop me but went straight into the window. Karl and I have a long history. What a jerk.
Damn you Karl!
We went to a business meeting and the lady had her adorable puppy wandering around! He looked just like the puppy I had as a child!
Then we decided to drive for several hours (literally) to another Big Chief Burger so James could get his special burger XD
He didn’t notice until after ordering but they have a special challenger burger, next time this wall will be ours!
This is what a completely contented man looks like:
I don’t even remember taking this but… cute puppy!
I got to stop by Vanity Box’s retail store too and drool over all of the make up!
After that it was a mad rush to the airport, some cheesecake with James parents and we were on the flight home!
It was a really lovely trip and I can’t believe how many awesome photos came out of it. Looking back on them has been really fun!
Have you guys been on any trips lately? I know I have to go back to Brisbane again soon but I really want to travel more internationally rather than domestically this year :D |
oooh! Kwan Yins!! One of the very (very) few things I miss about Brisbane :)
I know exactly what you mean!
Looks like you had a ball! :) Didn’t go anywhere this Summer holiday, but hoping to go to Singapore later on this year. Fingers crossed. Then I can find out from everyone what I should be getting from Sasa!
Singapore sounds like a fantastic holiday! That’s going to be so much fun, I’m totally drooling over the shopping mental images I’m now having!
Your food photos always make me hungry! Haha.
I’ve just got back from 2 weeks in South Africa with university. It was so much fun, and I loved seeing animals running around in the wild when I’d only seen them in zoos before. It’s been a bit of a shock going from 38 degrees Celsius weather over there to the 5 degrees Celsius weather back here in England though! It’s made me desperate to go travelling again!
Oh that is a crazy weather change *_* I wish I could swap weather with you, it’s been around 35+ degrees here too and the heat makes me so grumpy!
Great photos! I want to eat that burger that James has…
Also, I didn’t know you used to wear lolita. Have you ever done a style evolution post? I love your style right now, I’ve always wondered how you’ve changed over the years.
I haven’t done a style evolution yet, very tempting though :D I think I went from being the complete opposite of only wearing black to the pink girly thing I am now haha! I’ll have to try to dig out my old photos!
wonderful set of photo’s but I must say Ruby was my favourtie !
:D She’s mine too!
You mentioned international travel. If you ever come to the USA, specifically Chicago, contact me and I would be thrilled to show you around!
That would be amazing, thank you!
I’m a Melbournian currently reading your blog from Ireland! I’ve been here two weeks and am moving on from Ireland to the rest of Europe in May. I can totally recommend Ireland – the scenery is out of this world beautiful.
That sounds like an amazing trip, I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland!
That’s a lot of photos. Poor Bergamot! D: Being horribly abused. Love the rivalry going on between you and Karl. xD
Haha I should hurry up and write the full post about Karl, he’s such a jerk!