Friday night we went to carols by candlelight - which has changed quite a bit since I went to one in Oz 15 years ago. Now you get battery powered tealights to hold and kids get fibre optics to wave around. carols were sung by lots of australian celebrities that we didnt know! Saturday we got up to go to free aqau aerobics in the outdoor lagoon pool by the river. Definitely much easier to get up and do in Oz. - and you get free yoghurt after! SO we spent the...

Friday night we went to carols by candlelight - which has changed quite a bit since I went to one in Oz 15 years ago. Now you get battery powered tealights to hold and kids get fibre optics to wave around. carols were sung by lots of australian celebrities that we didnt know! Saturday we got up to go to free aqau aerobics in the outdoor lagoon pool by the river. Definitely much easier to get up and do in Oz. - and you get free yoghurt after! SO we spent the...

So we went to get the bus from mel's which was about 40 mins late - we almost decided to give up and stay with mels longer but didnt want to be charged for our brisbane hostel booking and not use it.So we had a quick bus ride to brisbane - because the bus was late noone could collect us so we walked to the hostel to be told that we didnt have a bed - yes they had a bokking for us but had not saved us a bed.They shipped us out to another hostel 10 mins out of ...