CITY WHAT?

Listen Ladies and Gentlemen, being on the road for the first part of July was a dangerous thing in Brisbane when Angie Leibfried was learning how to drive. Dan was oh so kind to give me a few tips of how to enter round-abouts and how to keep it on the road. I was always wanting to go over to the right too much. I won't even go on to the part of the blinkers and wiper controls being on the opposite side of the wheel. I don't even really know why they have wipers...they are in a hundred year drought for heaven sakes!

Sunday, July 8th, we decided to go to Christian & Paige's school so that we could see the Chapel that they would be attending during the week and I could get an idea of how to get to school from our house. After church, the priest gave Dan some different directions to use so I could avoid a lot of the city traffic on the way to and from school during the week. Dan gave me the refadex (reference map coupled with a street index) and had me help with the directions. This is a map of how to get around the area...keep in mind, they have round-abouts in them too. AWWWW! We made it home. Then my lovely husband decided that I should give it another try when we got home. I barely knew how to get out of our subdivision much less get back to school. I did however make it to and from school with Dan only closing his eye's a couple of times as I was heading too close to the bluff wall. He thought I was going to take off the mirror. You should see me take those corners now. Just so that everyone one can be at ease, I did get a driving lesson and you are safe to come over and ride with me now.

While we were down by the kids school for the 3rd time in one day, Dan took us on a City Cat (water taxi) ride. This was really fun. We hopped on the boat at the University of Queensland and rode it for an hour one way. This a fun and inexpensive way to get around the city. We will definitely have to do this with our guest when they come over. We saw the downtown area, the Story Bridge (this is the one that you can climb over) and a lot of other cool stuff. The great thing about this is that you can hop off and get back on another City Cat going the other direction any time for one fare all day. I personally just like watching the different people getting on and off the Cat.

As you can see Dan has been keeping us busy the first couple of days we were here. I will try to be as well as Dan when any of you come over to visit. Hope you are enjoying these entries as much as we are enjoying our time together.