Travelog for: Lenny

Wow, I´m so excited! I saw very big and dangerous animals today: They are called DINOSAURS! Some of them moved and made noise. It was a lot of fun to take photos with them!

My host mum celebrated her birthday at the weekend! Yay, it was so much fun! We had a party with fondue and then another party with family meeting and lots of presents! We enjoyed preparing for the party, and of course eating all the chocolate and other yummy food. And opening presents was sooo exciting! I love parties!  [color=orangered][/color]

I went to a small trip with my host parents and Bella-Bo, another TV. We went to an old quarry. There were many tall rocks and several small lakes. And many, many beautiful flowers, dragonflies, insects .... I loved the smell of lavender!

Hi Mum... I arrived in Brisbane Australia today... Wow... It's quite warm, and i had some friendly tv's to meet me... emo_kid said she'll help me post some pics soon... Love Lenny

Hi Mum, I've arrived in Australia.
Stompy and Synapse opened my envelope this morning.

See Mum, I arrived in one piece


Synapse and I sent Stompy on his trip. Bye Stompy.


This is the view of the city and the new bridge - go between bridge - Milton is about 3kms out of the CBD, but the river bends so it looks further away.


And this is a party boat. It doesn't leave the dock, but you can hire it for a party or event.


emo_kid and her friend at work are going to take us out one lunch time this week... Im excited...
Talk soon, love Lenny

Hi Mum

Synapse and I raided emo_kids makeup cupboard... Look what we found...








Bruno arrived today


emo_kid works next door to a resturant called the Coro. It always wins awards for its seafood and has happy hour on Fridays afterwork. We weren't allowed in, it wasn't open. So we hung out on the sign.



While emo_kid was in her meeting, we all checked toyvoyager and read her emails

Nothing interesting though

Then we got caught


Atila


Maximus cuddles


Bruno and I attacked Itci with cuddles




We go to help prepare the strawberries and sugar for dessert

And then got to eat them. YUM!!


We're going on an adventure over the weekend and next week... Can't say to much right now.
Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

emo_kid and punk_boi had to go to Indooroopilly today, so we tagged along...
first we went to Milton Train station to catch the train.


Behind me is the Milton XXXX Brewery


Waiting for the train (punk_boi wanted to get in on the photo)


We had to be contained, we were so excited


Playing on punk_boi's skateboard




Look, Im using a go card, no more paper tickets here


we're on the train


We had Hungry Jack's for lunch - which is known as Buger King everywhere else, except Australia


At Indooroopilly station


This is the Suncorp Staduim where they play Rugby



We're going on this thing called the city cat on Friday... Sounds exciting whatever it is.

Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

Nursy arrived today from Spain





I think we'll get along ok...

Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

Rosario arrived today from San Diego



We got bored, so we flicked through pictures of tattoos that emo_kid will get

and then attacked Itci with a group hug


emo_kid walks to work and passes a primary school which has these giant pencils out the front

and someone painted the toilet block

how cool is that?

Unfortuantly its supposed to rain all weekend, so we wont be going into the city, again, but we may be helping punk_boi fix his car...

Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

Bussi arived today. He thought he'd been kidnapped by pirates...





This is where emo_kid works.

this is where we were hiding


Love Lenny

Hi Mum

I got to help file today

and print labels


Later we had coffee

and then lunch. emo_kid had a chicken and salad roll

but she doesn't like grated carrott, so we got it. YUM!!


In the afternoon we stumbled across this WWII monument


and while waiting for punk_boi to finish work, we checked out the fake Eiffel Tower on Park rd


We're going into the city tomorrow...

Love Lenny

Hi Mum

OMG, we finally got to go into the city... So exciting.
Here's me on the bus going in

We walked around for a bit and found this cool looking church. There are heaps of churches in the city.

This is city hall. We weren't allowed to go inside, but here's some interesting information about it.
"City hall was erected between 1920 and 1930 and is heritage listed. The sandstone-faced building features a finely detailed main entrance topped by a 92 metre clock tower. It is currently undergoing renovations."

This is the Treasury Building, formerly the Queensland Government Treasury Building, but now it is the Treasury Casino. It was built between 1886 and 1928 in three stages. It is Located at the end of Queen st Mall. There’s accommodation and of course, gambling, so naturally we weren’t allowed in.

Next we found some Kangaroo’s… They’re not real kangaroos though; they’re made out of scrap metal.

Then we met Adrian Burragubba, a native aboriginal, who busks in the Queen st mall. He’s been doing it for the past 16 years, and has even fought the government over aboriginal wages. He comes from a community in central Queensland. We didn’t want to disturb his music, so we had a group photo with him. He sits on genuine Kangaroo skin and plays the didgeridoo and clapsticks. He is dressed in traditional aboriginal dress and body paint. We were all nervous, but it was so interesting and unlike anything ive heard before.

Next we stumbled across “The Drovers”. They were originally created as part of Expo ’88, and were part of a series of 80 sculptures displaying people in everyday situations in Australia. In 1989 they were purchased by Department if Primary Industries and installed in there present location, out the front of the Department if Primary Industries building on Ann st. In 2005, they were re-created in cast aluminium to preserve them for generations to come. The drovers represent the old swagmen around a camp fire.




We found this really interesting statue of a man on horseback, giving a lady water and food, with lots of children standing around. I’m not sure what it all means, but they look cool.

Next we saw this, it’s an old Servants home, which was built in 1865 and bought in 1873 by the Brisbane School of Arts. Here’s some information about it.


Although it wasn’t very interesting inside, as it’s being used as an art gallery / coffee shop now, we got to sign the guest book.

Sadly it was then time to go back to work. Here we are on the train.

Im exhausted now, so im going to sleep.

Love Lenny xox

Hi mum

I got to cook today. We’re making Satay Chicken for dinner.

First you cut the chicken

Then I measured the rice

And put it on to cook

Then I preheated the pan

And browned the chicken

Add the sauce

And the vegies

Cook until everything is warmed through
Spoon some rice in a bowl

And then add the satay chicken.

YUM!!!

Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

Bruno had to go home today, to ensure he arrived in time for his mums birthday...

We had a little treat of m&m's YUM!!!

and then said goodbye, he looks comfortable in there...


Did you hear about the Roller Derby on the 16th Oct??? Im a bit excited...

Love Lenny xox

Hi Mum

Well the following are bits and pieces from over the last few days. The rain just wont go away, so we haven't been out much.

On the way home the other day, we found a rat. He wasn't to healthy so we gave him some water. He survived

And I had to have my photo taken with this Ferrari we spotted


On Sunday was emo_kids birthday. She only has punk_boi here, so not many presents, and we just had a quiet one at home.



Today there were 2 packages waiting for us.

The first was Sweet Mimi

And the next was Miguel


This is Miguel's first trip

Well bye for now,

Love Lenny