Koala Sanctuary and XXXX Brewery & Alehouse

So on our last full day here in Brisbane we decided that we needed to cuddle some koalas and drink Queensland's finest.

Lone Pine is the worlds first and largest koala sanctuary. They are pretty famous as well with pictures of numerous celebrities who have held their koalas (Oh, and Mark, they had the original picture of the Pope holding the koala that you keep in your wallet... I thought that was pretty funny).
The koala we got to hold was named Dudley... he was an old fella. Because I took pictures of Megan and she took pictures of me, I only have pictures of her with Dudley... but she has a lot of me with our little friend.



After Lone Pine, we had a tour of the famous XXXX Brewery, serving Queensland's finest with Queensland's finest since the 1800's. The tour talked about beer wars between the states in the early 19th Century and was really interesting. The tour let out into the Alehouse, where we got to sample four beers! So last night our dinner consisted of potato wedges and beer... I think this has been a very good trip so far!!!






Right after I post this we are going to checkout and head down to the Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise (So Megan, I will try and see what I can do about your gift...).

Thanks for sticking with me after the few days of nothing, I'll try and get better... G'DAY!

Australia Zoo

To try and organize what we've done so far, I'm breaking up the days in three separate posts...

OK, so on Thursday here (Weds for people back in the states), we went to the Australian Zoo!!! (Home of the Croc Hunter!). It was sweeeeeeeeeeeet! Not only did we get to see a lot of animals native to Oz, we got to feed them too! We made friends with different Roos! The one you see here was quite lazy... so we got along immediately.




Megan made friends with some Roos as well, though when she tried to name them, her creative genius left her... Lets see there was Little Roo, Big Roo, and Old Roo (though that was quickly changed to Yoda because he looked old and wise.)



Though the Roos were probably the highlight of the trip, the other animals were cool as well... I now want a wombat.

Finally Posting in Brisbane!!!

Hey there everybody, and sorry it took so long to get the first official post of the trip up! First of all, let me tell you that 15 hour plane rides and my size don't really go hand in hand. Luckily I am able to fall asleep just about anywhere so I pulled my hat over my eyes, turned on my iPod, and I was out!
The customs line in the Brisbane airport was fairly long, but it moved pretty quickly. We made it through without any problems and were able to keep the cookies that we did not finish on the flight.
We found our way to the hostel, with a little help from an information desk, dropped off our bags and went for a walk around the city. We some how stumbled upon the Roma Street Parkland, which has a huge garden and an even bigger lake. We hung out there for a while and walked around taking pictures of the flowers and tropical plants.
We returned to the hostel to find out that they double booked our room and we were moved to a 11 bed dorm, which wasn't bad, its just the principle of the matter. We quickly decided that we needed to find a new place to stay... which we did right in downtown Brisbane! (I am in the internet bar of this hostel typing this.)