The Household COO

More photos from my trip to Brisbane in December 2004, back in the days when the hubby was a lean, mean, fighting machine. Okay, maybe just the lean part.

We had a lovely turkey dinner served up by my SIL at her place in Brisbane.

Hubby tucking into the good stuff with HL and W.

Here’s a better shot, although he hates it when I take photos of him eating:

Even though everyone thinks hubby is the food guzzler, I think it’s probably me that hoovers just about anything and everything. When you analyse everything, the hubby is actually quite picky when it comes to food, while me, I’m DBKL (the name for the garbage team here).

Our delicious dinner - or what was left of it:

Take a look at this picture and tell me what you see…

Yup, it is a fake beach in the middle of the city. The black line you see after the aqua blue separates the “sea” from the Brisbane River which flows through the heart of Brisbane. This “beach” is located in Southbank, Brisbane.

The first overseas trip the hubby and I took together (before we were married) was to Australia. I had originally planned to spend Christmas and the New Year at my favourite mecca - Krabi, but since my Dad was really hoping I’d come home for Christmas, I changed my plans.

I guess an angel was looking out for me because it was the year when the earthquake hit the Indian Ocean and the Tsunami ravaged many of the coasts of the surrounding land masses. My friends who took the trip out to Krabi said that the waters came up and destroyed a lot of the beachside resorts but thankfully no one was hurt.

CG and I flew out first to Brisbane to spend Christmas with his sister before flying down to Melbourne to for New Year’s Eve with my parents.

I posted some photos from Noosa and Maleny in the previous posts and will be posting more in the next few days. Meanwhile, here are some more photos from our first day in Brisbane:

These photos were taken during a holiday visit to Brisbane back in December 2004. The hubby (back then my boyfriend), my SIL and her boyfriend drove out one weekend to enjoy some sunshine and water at Noosa.

It was a lovely day and the beach was great. Lucky for us because we had heard that a big storm had washed in a lot of algae previously so the sea had been unsuitable for swimming for a while.

Afterwards, we stopped by a bistro for some lunch where I took some snapshots of everyone. HL relaxing with a cool bottle of water:

Camera-shy CG in one a rare moment in front of the camera:

MR also looking a little uncomfortable in front of the camera:

And me, the poser queen, waiting for my BLT without the B:

Let me explain that last caption. Back then I was still a vegatarian and they didn’t have much in the way for vegetarians so I ordered a BLT sandwich without the bacon.

Noosa was nice and relaxing. It reminded me of the summer holidays when I was a kid and my parents would take my brother and I out to Lakes Entrance (some four to five hours drive east of Melbourne) where they would go fishing. Or rather it was my Dad and my uncle who would go fishing while my cousins, my brother and I would go to the beach with the Mums to play in the water.

Afterwards we would go have ice cream at this cool homemade ice cream store. Ah, those were the days…