We started our outing today looking for the City Market. Its website says it is held on Tuesdays but that turns out to be incorrect, it is on Wednesdays. The silver lining is that our search put us right in front of the Brisbane Square Library. It is a large building and it was heart-warming to see how many people were utilizing this fine library. By showing our AirBnB receipt we were able to get library cards. That was a very nice thing indeed. Of course, we checked out books straight away. Then we took a different route home along the Queens Street pedestrian mall. We also sent our votes in to Florida. We had registered as Overseas Voters back in August in accordance with the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). It was fairly straightforward except for the "fax in your ballot" part. We made our choices online and then when we went to print out the ballot, the printer was out of paper. I had printed the previous evening as a test of the system but I used up all the paper. So off to Office works we go! We got paper so we could print the ballots, the instructions and the coversheets. We had asked at the Library if they could send faxes and they just laughed. Why would people think that it is odd to require technology invented in 1843 would be the required technology that we needed to vote. A bit more research identified Officeworks as the only place still offering fax services. However it took the tech a dozen tries to get it to work.
Library Square with round sculptures
The old buildings were also retained here in Brisbane
Add some architectural bling
Jet powered roo
The Christmas season is already getting started.
Score!
Some celebratory wine to mark our successful votes!
