Location | Gold Coast, Australia

Last night I left Taichung to go to the airport then hopped on a plane to Brisbane. After a 9-10 hour flight, we arrived and met up with our tour guide, Danny. We headed off in our mini-bus. It was me and 20 other people. This trip is supposed to celebrate my Grandma’s 80th birthday, so it was me, my mom, my aunt and my grandma.

The first stop was Brisbane City Hall. Apparently it was once the tallest clock tower in the region. Apparently they were planning to remodel within the next month or so, and I was lucky enough to ride the elevator to the top.

Brisbane City Hall

We hopped back onto the bus and headed over to this park which was the site of the World Expo in 1988. They had a giant ferris wheel, Nepalese temple, and various other little sites and attractions.

Ferris Wheel

We went to lunch right after in the Brisbane Chinatown. We had dimsum, nothing remarkable, so no pictures. We then headed up to Mount Coot-tha  to get a great view of Brisbane from above.

My Grandma at Mt. Coot-tha

After that we headed a shopping center where we spent an hour shopping around for groceries at Woolworths before we headed to the hotel on the Gold Coast and dropped off all of our things before we headed out to a (terrible) Italian restaurant and then back to the hotel to relax and go to sleep.

Domo-kun is learning about the Gold Coast