Brisbane Romp!

I totally forgot last night as I was posting to mention that I was planning to participate in the Brisbane Romp today! What's a romp?? The organizers describe it as, "part treasure hunt, part 'Amazing Race', and part puzzle." It's a charity event that was held in Melbourne and happened in Brisbane for the first time today - teams of up to six people sign up to participate and you have 4 hours to complete a scavenger hunt that spans the entire city. It was really fun! My team was Jody, Kate, Leah, Jess, and Sophie (and me!), and our theme was 'Romping Wrestlemania!' Teams are encouraged to dress up, so we tried our best to come up with good costumes after a couple of very stressful work-filled weeks. Really, we created them in about a 6 hour span of time last night :o) I think they turned out pretty well!! Kudos to Kate and Jody who designed the t-shirts!

We had a nice breakfast before the fun began and got a lot of attention from tourists and other people walking down the street. A big group of Asian businessmen saw us and nearly fell over themselves trying to get pictures with us - there were around 10 of them, and they each took a turn posing with us in our wigs. They especially loved Sophie in her long, blonde, Hannah Montana wig!!

Summer Begins...

Hey everyone! I've been so busy lately with work and school that I barely have time to do anything fun - let alone post about it! Today I finally got a break and went down to Surfers Paradise again with Jody, Val, and some other girls. The weather was perfect!! We had about two weeks of spring here and suddenly...BAM! It's summer! It's more like a change from dry to wet season, but we were lucky to get a beautiful sunny day today. Thought I'd throw up a few pics of it!

The surf was pretty rough today so the lifeguards had their motor boats set up in case someone got caught in a rip and started to drown! There were also tons of them out in the water playing around on their big yellow surfboards.

I never really thought that they actually wore the silly cloth caps on their heads, but they do!!

I thought I'd also stick some pictures in (for Gena!) of the thunderstorm that happened a couple weeks ago. This was the storm as it approached from the west...


And here it is after it's passed over the west side of the city...the sky was so pretty!


Hope everyone is doing well and having a good September! I have my spring break (thank goodness!) the week after next, and I'm gonna take a few of those days off work to go on a canoe safari in the Noosa everglades (just north of here) with Jody. Should be great! Hopefully I can upload pictures soon...stay posted!