Roma Street Parklands

We practically had the whole place to ourselves.

We wandered through the pretty flower gardens, vibrant, hardy blooms that reminded me of my aunts garden.

We sat under large shade trees by the lake and ate a picnic lunch, chicken and salad rolls with feta and pesto, fruit and chocolate. I could have sat there for hours, but no, not when there was exploring to be done. We spent some time wandering around the lake and then,

into the rainforest.

Our day continued to be relaxing, which is not always the case on our trips to Brisbane (read - never).

After our morning spent at the gardens, we managed a quick trip to Ikea, again, I wondered, "has everybody left town?" Ikea was not busy! The kids got straight into the play area and in our hour free, we got everything we went for. Happy with that, and with time to spare, we visited the Woolongabba Antique Centre for a look around and a coffee.

Sitting back in the booth seats drinking milkshakes (kids) and cappuccino's (us) we all agreed at what a lovely day out we had had. Gone were the days when we would drive to Brisbane, do only one thing before someone (usually Spunky Monkey) had a meltdown and we would return home again.

It looks like we can finally plan a full day trip to Brisbane. Yes, we have big kids now. Lovely.



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Where is everybody?

I've decide to call my October blog posts 'the spring issue'. I wonder, can you bare any more photos of flowers and trees? I hope so, I am going to share some of our photos from a recent trip to the Roma Street Parklands.






There will be no weeping cherry trees or tulips in these photos, Roma Street Parklands is the largest sub-tropical garden and in the southern hemisphere and a marvel in it's own right.




We spent a magical four hours here and wondered, "where is everyone?" The place was almost deserted (we didn't mind) but we wondered why everyone wasn't taking advantage of such a beautiful space on such a beautiful day.

Some more tomorrow.

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