We got up late the next morning at around 10:00 AM but Daniel was still asleep and we didn't want to wake him up. We wanted to go out and enjoy the beautiful Australian morning with some coffee, so we took a 25 minute walk to Death Before Decaf. I got a mocha, Doug got a cappuccino, Cole got a hot chocolate, and we got Daniel a long black with a double shot. Death Before Decaf had great coffee, but the shop itself played constant heavy metal and punk music so we walked back to the hotel. Daniel wasn't up when we got back so we woke him and gave him his coffee. He was ready to go after a couple of minutes so we got a taxi and rode the 7 minutes to Gabba Stadium.
The game at the Gabba (
Sports) at 1:00 PM was a WBBL league cricket match. The WBBL stands for the Woman's Big Bash League. This league was started in the 2015-2016 season to replace the WNCL Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup. The match today was between the Brisbane Heat and the Adelaide Strikers, two lowly ranked teams. Most of the time during the match we had no idea what was going on but when the Brisbane fans cheered so did we. We all filled up on concessions for lunch at The Gabba between innings. The heat barely pulled out a victory against the Strikers and it came down to only a couple of runs.
After all that excitement we wanted to do something a little more laid back, so we taxied 13 minutes to the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium (
Technology). The Planetarium was established in 1978 by the Brisbane City Council. We sat and watched a show in the Planetariums Cosmic Skydome and then took a tour of Brisbane's current night sky with an astronomer. During the tour and show we learned a lot about our current solar system and about Brisbane.
It was time to eat by the time we left the planetarium so we took a 5 minute taxi to a restaurant called the Deer Duck Bistro. The restaurant featured modern European cuisine at a very expensive price. I ordered the slow roasted suckling pig with caramelized shallot puree which was the best thing I had eaten the whole trip. The restaurant was very crowded so we had to wait over an hour for our food, but we fortunately had bread to tide us over. We left the the Deer Duck Bistro at 9:00 PM to go back to our hotel and got some sleep before the flight the next day.
We got up late the next morning at around 10:00 AM but Daniel was still asleep and we didn't want to wake him up. We wanted to go out and enjoy the beautiful Australian morning with some coffee, so we took a 25 minute walk to Death Before Decaf. I got a mocha, Doug got a cappuccino, Cole got a hot chocolate, and we got Daniel a long black with a double shot. Death Before Decaf had great coffee, but the shop itself played constant heavy metal and punk music so we walked back to the hotel. Daniel wasn't up when we got back so we woke him and gave him his coffee. He was ready to go after a couple of minutes so we got a taxi and rode the 7 minutes to Gabba Stadium.
The game at the Gabba (Sports) at 1:00 PM was a WBBL league cricket match. The WBBL stands for the Woman's Big Bash League. This league was started in the 2015-2016 season to replace the WNCL Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup. The match today was between the Brisbane Heat and the Adelaide Strikers, two lowly ranked teams. Most of the time during the match we had no idea what was going on but when the Brisbane fans cheered so did we. We all filled up on concessions for lunch at The Gabba between innings. The heat barely pulled out a victory against the Strikers and it came down to only a couple of runs.
It was time to eat by the time we left the planetarium so we took a 5 minute taxi to a restaurant called the Deer Duck Bistro. The restaurant featured modern European cuisine at a very expensive price. I ordered the slow roasted suckling pig with caramelized shallot puree which was the best thing I had eaten the whole trip. The restaurant was very crowded so we had to wait over an hour for our food, but we fortunately had bread to tide us over. We left the the Deer Duck Bistro at 9:00 PM to go back to our hotel and got some sleep before the flight the next day.
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