Day 28- Brisbane in the rain

May 23, 2011- Day 28

Where: Brisbane

Dinner: Um, we had a big late lunch. Then I ate a muffin tonight.

Rainy.

        Brisbane weather has been a bit of a bust. When we got up this morning it wasn't too bad. We recently bought all the ingredients for chorizo breakfast burritos, and since we had a whole camp kitchen available to us this morning we seized the opportunity to not cook in the van. Pat makes some tasty breakfast burritos and I provide valuable moral support :) I also do the dishes though, so I think that's fair. We ate our tasty burritos and hung around the lounge area for a while using our computers. It was nice to have some time to just hang out outside of the van. We parked the van in a commuter lot and got into the city around 1. There were massive black clouds rolling in while we were on the train and as soon as we reached the city it was pouring. Today we were in the area of town called Fortitude Valley, which is an area where younger people hang out, I guess. There is also a little China Town there. It was alright, not anything particularly cool. There were lots of awnings though which was helpful in the rain. We decided to get some lunch and guess what we got? Asian food! Got to stick with tradition. We found a place with some great lunch specials, and I had BBQ pork and dumpling soup. I'm really coming to like dumpling soup. At the end we even split some fried ice cream. Wow, that might be one of the best desserts ever.

        We walked over into the next district of town, called New Farm (where do they get these names?) It's a little bit wealthier area with more cafes and coffee shops. It was still raining though so it wasn't especially good wandering weather. We didn't stay too long, and in the end we just caught a bus to the train station and then went back to the van. We left the city this evening and continued north. We found a service station that actually allows overnight parking (as far as we can tell) we we're stopped here for the night. There are lots of very large trucks around so I'm not sure I'll sleep well with all the coming and going, but it's an easy place to stop for the night. Tomorrow he head into the Sunshine Coast and apparently the rain is supposed to stop. There is so much good stuff up north, I really hope it doesn't rain anymore!