May 9, 2009 - Off to Brisbane!

Got up super early (4 am) to hit to road to Sydney airport. Our flights left at 8 am, so in order to be there at least an hour ahead of time, we had to hit the road at 4:30 am. Got into Brisbane, picked up the rental car (convertible) and headed over to Dave’s house. Dave (not our neighbor) is another American who had Tom’s job before he came. Dave now works up in Brissy for the corporate headquarters of SAL (Sikorsky’s Australian branch). He is married and has an adorable set of twins who were celebrating their 1st birthday. That’s what the party was for. Here I thought it was just a regular BBQ, but no, it was a birthday party, if I had known I would have brought something. So we hung out there for a while, chatting and eating. I started to get really tired and mid-afternoon, when the present opening began, I just dozed off on the couch. Tom was getting really tired as well, so he woke me up and we decided to head on over to the hotel. We checked in, then headed down to a main shopping area, Queen Street Mall to look around. After peaking at movie times (we had the idea of seeing Star Trek while we were there since it didn’t appear it would be coming to Huskisson anytime soon. Which by the way, WTF, one of the biggest movies of the year and the cinema in Husky isn’t planning on having it anytime soon??? What?!?!) We decided against seeing Star Trek that night since we had had a long day and didn’t think we would be able to make it through to 10 or after. We grabbed dinner at a pub type place and then headed back to the room to crash. We did order from pay-per-view though, the movie Max Payne. It was ok, kept my attention for a few hours, and that’s pretty much all I ask for from movies.