We woke up on Saturday morning to see rain on our windows. A perfect day to get wash done, catch up on banking and read a bit. After that the sky cleared up and we went down to the pool. I swam a six laps and could tell that it had been a long time since I was in a pool. We heard a ruckus out on the street and looked down from the pool deck to see young protesters chanting for climate action. The slogan we liked the most was "the seas are rising, no more compromising". Then we heard an even louder commotion. This commotion went on and on for over an hour. It turned out that there was a rally in the Botanical gardens for the Rugby World Cup. Tonga and Samoa are playing in the semifinal round. Based on the turnout there must be thousands of Pacific Islanders here in Brisbane. They were flying flags, wearing flags and hooting and hollering away. We did more work around the house and then went out for dinner. You guessed it, Sushi! On the way back we explored more places to shop and eat. We found a funky café that looks out over the fancy part of the pedestrian mall. They have a buy one get one free steak dinner on Monday. Monday dinner plans, check! On Sunday we got up early and went to the market in the Botanical Gardens., It was a smallish market with food, crafts and one vegetable stand. We did our part buying veggies. On the way out we found an author selling her books at the last booth. it is a murder mystery set just outside of Brisbane so we bought one. Later we decided to head back to the Botanical Gardens for our happy hour. That was a fun time and we plan on repeating this performance.
Lets the fans have their day!
The whole family
Lots of flags
Samoa Samoa Samoa
Tonga, Tonga, Tonga
Lots of Sushi and a hot chicken dish for dessert
One hell of a façade
Our haul of Veggies on Sunday
A Sunday at the market brought back lots of memories
The market was small but still a fun time
We saw more doge here than we have seen in the last four days in Brisbane
A book by a local author
She told us that it is set near to Brisbane
Happy hour at the Botanical Gardens
Out come the bats
Lit up by the setting sun
\\The Isis in full splendor
A rare sighting of wild birders
This fellow was sitting cross-legged for an hour or more. Leslie had to go over and investigate. He had bought this ukulele earlier that day
One visitor of many
Monkey Puzzle trees in the distance
A Bush Stone Curlew with haunting calls into the evening
The fancy pants came out tonight
Liberty, Libby for short came over to visit with her cute dog
The dog got buzzed by the birds several times
Time to head home
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A great planted bed
It has been 154 days since we began our Migration
