In The Sunshine State

It's been an amazing week. The girls and I have been on a vacation in Brisbane, Australia. That's at the top of Australia, so it is always hot there. In these cold winter times, we still had 20+ degrees and lots of sun most days.

Theme parks
Aside from excellent weather, Brisbane is known for theme parks. The girls and I purchased super passes, so we could enter three of them for a good price.

Movie World
Movie World is a roller coaster park with a classic Warner Brothers theme. We spent a full day trying all of the rides. I liked the Arkham Asylum extreme inverted roller coaster best. Tilde screamed her loungs out on the fast superman ride and Louise loved the Scoobie Doo comical horror ride. The weather was winter-like (for Brisbane), with a few showers and a temperature just shy of twenty degrees, but to us it seemed good. It was nice to have shorter queue times and during the showers we went for indoor rides and a 4D movie.

You had fair shot at meeting a superhero on this boulevard

To superman this is but a small bump on the road

Sea World
Tuesday we did not plan to visit another theme park, but after a tanning session on Gold Coast beach we decided to visit Sea World on our way home. It was a short visit, but we did see both the dolphin show and the jet ski stunt show. The dolphins were amazing! Everyone loves dolphins, but I think I can appreciate their strength and form even more because of my own affinity with water.

Absolutely phenomenal dolphin show

Wet and Wild
Lived up to its name with surprisingly extreme water rides. The Aqualoop is a favourite. Watch a ride in the video below.

It's pretty tense when they lock you in the tube

and count down to the drop

We spent a full day in swimwear, splashing about in the park. Wet'n'Wild is my favourite of the three theme parks we visited.

Gold Coast
The couple of days we went to the Gold Coast again. We enjoyed ourselves tanning in the sun on the beach, swimming in the sea and shopping.

Gold Coast is an awesome city

Strong currents, a hard shorebreak and a blazing sun.
A surf lifeguard dream.

Fancy name, but Australians surf everywhere

Brissie at night
Friday we went out. We found a nice Japanese BYO restaurant and initially had no idea how to order. The waitress helped us. We discussed and noted our orders on a notepad and then this arrived.

Barbecue like this is called yakiniku

We went on to party at some very nice bars.

These drinks are as different as our personalities

The night life in Brisbane is loud, retro, exquisite or full of Asians. You can find whatever you like within a single city block.

Bye girls

It was not without sadness when we hugged goodbye. We won't meet in New Zealand again, because the girls are flying back to Denmark in one short month.

Love you girls