City Cats on the loose

Sunday the roommates and I decided to head over to the weekend market on Southbank. Southbank is...well...located on the south bank of the river. These Aussies are so clever... Every weekend they hold a market that goes from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. There's live music, local artists, clothes, food, and it's all Aussie made of course. They're big on the "Made in Oz" thing.

Best part is that I got my first experience on the City Cat. The City Cat is a really fast ferry that runs up and down the Brisbane River. It scoots by my apartment I want to say hundreds of times a day both directions from 6 in the morning until midnight. I just love the name too...city cat? awesome. We sat up front for the view--so cool. Zooming by our apartment, Toowong, The city....I think that I found my new main mode of transportation. Right when we hopped off at Southbank, we could hear music playing and smell some amazing food cooking. The architecture is very modern and had some yummy looking restaurants that Jess, Debbie and I knew we'd be back to sample.

We spent half of the afteroon wandering around the different tents, everything from bellydancing clothes, to produce, to tarot card readings. We made our way down the boardwalk towards the man made beach (the only beach they have in Brisbane) only to find out that it was closed. It was actually kind of funny; lots and lots of sand...but no water to actually make it a beach. It just looked like a big sand box. Needlessto say we were disappointed, so we kept walking till we saw a sign for QAG and QPAC, aka the Queensland Art Gallery and the Queensland Performing Arts Center. One of the exhibitions going on until September was the history of Australian art dating from before the 1700's to present; another was British Pop Art to the 1990's. It was great. I found some Australian Artists I want to look more into from the Modern Art Pd. as well as some British Pop that attracted me. There was also an Australian/Asian Ceramic Exhibition, and all who know me would know that I was enthralled with this section of the gallery.

After we all made it through the gallery, we hiked over to the QPAC and got info on some plays to go see later. Alice in Wonderland is the next ballet coming! :P The rest of the night was spent at home with Debbie's cooking and Josh Hartnett in Wicker Park. I love my roommates haha.