Weekend!

Friday around 4 PM, it seemed like everybody agreed on the fact that is was beer 'o clock. We could live with that and ended up in zi-bar with a few colleagues, drinking Golden. It was entertaining. We had a few nice chats about the firm, culture and social life here and in Belgium. A fair deal of the time was spent on explaining where Belgium is situated, what languages we speak and what social conflicts arise. After that, the only right thing to do, was grab a kebab on South Bank.

We got some real good advise on public transport and things to visit from lots of people. We agreed on going to the Australia Zoo today (house of the Crocodile Hunter, well, not anymore). So we got out of bed on time and headed for the railway station. Only to find out we missed the train to Beerwah and the next one wouldn't leave until 12:30 PM. No Australia Zoo today. We should have used all the advice and should have planned the trip properly. Alternatively, we took the bus to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. We are proud to say we saw koalas and kangaroos (finally!).



Ironically, I was most impressed by the birds of prey.



Because koalas only eat eucalyptus (and each species just likes a few kinds of eucalyptus) and it contains about 5% of sugar, they have so little energy they sleep up to 20 hours a day (I could go with that). I'm afraid we saw lots of sleeping koalas. I guess that's why the park was stuffed with other animals. Lots of birds, parrots, snakes, and dingoes. I was quite amused as the dingo is one of koalas' natural enemies. I guess that makes the poor sleepy koalas feel at ease. Even more so because full grown tourists could have a picture taken while holding one (no, we didn't).



I found out the music store I was looking for is just a few hundred meters down the street. It's an official dealer of Brady drums, which are hand made in South Australia. While they were actually closed for a few minutes they noticed me and invited me in. Unfortunately, they only had one snare in stock and they didn't seem to have a tradition in customers hitting their stuff (no set was fully set up). I was in fact hoping on releasing some of my stacked up rhythmic urges as I haven't touched a drum set for over a week.

The internet connection in the hotel is down today (Saturday) so I'm doing some offline blogging and will put it online as soon as we're connected.