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| Flight | Flights to Edmonton | Air Canada | Brisbane, Australia | Edmonton | $0.00 | Booking: 2N7PN9 10:00-06:35. AC 36. BNE-YVR (26D&E) 09:10-11:42. AC 7776. YVR-YEG (16D&F) Cost is recorded on flight TO Australia | ||
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| If someone had challenged us to visit Australia during as many public holidays (and other special events) as possible, I don’t think we could have done better than this trip completely by accident. We were here for spring school break, Easter, Anzac Day, the federal election, the Magic Round Rugby tournament in Brisbane and today was Labour Day. \n\n Today we were going to take the subway out to Boondall Wetlands and walk back, which would have been about 17km, but it started raining as soon as we set out and was not going to let up for most of the morning so we shifted plans and went downtown instead. Because today was a holiday, we had trouble finding an open coffee shop to wait out the time until museums started opening, but Sugar n Spice near the Central subway station was open and we had second coffee there. \n\n When the Museum of Brisbane opened, we visited it and it was really interesting. The main display was a variety of collections that people had donated that were somehow representative of life in Brisbane. Some of my favorites were the Australia National Airline collection, the toy collection and the collection of photographs made from a discovered bunch of glass plate negatives from around the turn of the 20th century. \n\n We then had a quick visit to the Queensland Museum and saw the display of the South Sea People. I am always drawn to, and horrified by, the history of European colonialism with aboriginal peoples. \n\n We then considered going to see the Minecraft movie but noped out because I messed up on the start time, and instead went back to uSouth Bank for a drink where we had a delightful conversation with James (Irish) and Christian (Scottish), immigrant doctors who were also drinking away the afternoon.
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