My first Saturday back I just did some more exploring around Brisbane.
We went to Southbank last Friday night to go to a noodle market. I got to eat some Indonesian food which was tasty and they even had a dragon running around.
You can't really see the dragon haha
Soutbank wheel
I got food but my host family didn't, so afterward we went to this Japanese restaurant nearby and they ordered some sushi...which turned out to be very raw fish haha. Obviously. I have issues with fish...I don't enjoy eating it so much but I had never tried sushi so I ate a roll and another piece of fish. Yep, not my favorite hahaha. That's ok, I will let other people enjoy their sushi and I will enjoy my hamburger. :) After that we went to a market at West End and I found a vintage thrift shop...I was in heaven!!! Got a couple things and it made me happy! I'll be going back there for sure. And also to eat at this market, because they had a street vendor with Napoletana pizza with a wood over. DEFINITELY going back there.
Baby!
I thought that was a real person when I first saw it after getting out of the car in a dark alleyway...haha freaked me out!
This week I started realizing how few weekends I actually have left in this country. I leave in 7 weeks and that is not much time to do the things that I still want to do! So I really wanted to do a hike while I was here. Before I never felt like people in my ward would want to come, and it's been difficult organizing activities with other au pairs in the area for some reason for me. But I made a plan and my fellow YSA in my ward pulled through for me!! On Friday night I went to the temple to see a girl in my ward go through for the first time in prep for her mission, and then on Saturday 6 of us from the ward drove down to New South Wales and hiked to the top of Mt. Warning! We left pretty late and didn't start hiking until 3:00pm, but we got to the top to see the sunset and then got to hike back in the dark. We brought flashlights though so we were ok. It was actually really awesome, because on the way down sometimes we would just stop and turn off our lights and look at the sky through the trees. It was so dark and we could see lots of stars. We even had a spiritual thought just sitting in the dark all together. It was a great day and I'm so grateful people wanted to go! The hike wasn't too long, only about 9 kilometers roundtrip and we finished the whole thing in about 4.5 hours. Close to the summit you are pretty much rock climbing and there are chains to help you pull yourself up. Pretty intense at that point but absolutely worth it and the top! That is why I love hiking. The view makes everything worth it. I'm sad we couldn't stay longer but we wanted to get down the part with the chains before it got dark, because that would have been scary. We were all pretty dead afterward but felt accomplished, and it was a great day to get to know everyone better. :)
Brisbane by night
Mt. Warning hike!
Chewbacca was up there.
Crossed something else off of my bucket list!
looks super fun!
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