Super Saturday

The day started like any other normal day on camp. With breakfast completed our journey began off to the Modern Art Gallery in Southbank, Brisbane.













The students were exposed to the art of several artists and then were able to recreate certain pieces within interactive environments. The gallery offered the children a chance to be entertained, challenged and thoughtful while being exposed to various forms of art. It is quite amazing the amount of activities at this gallery and the time spent was thoroughly enjoyed. Children were greatly impressed by the size of the pieces of work and comments such as 'Awesome' were uttered as they saw them. Children were impressed with the variety of ways that artists expressed themselves other that just the old fashioned paint on paper. All hands were raised when the children where asked if they enjoyed their time at the Gallery. The time flew!

A walk across the bridge to the centre of town saw us arrive at the Queen Street Mall, where a local band were playing for our enjoyment. Lunch was in the Myer Foodcourt and many a discussion was heard about the cost of food; how much money they had to spend and if they felt they could afford an item. Students are really starting to think about their budgets and worthwhile purchases.















Next we headed to Borders Bookstore where we browsed books by the hundreds and Mrs Briffa was able to negotiate a very popular 20% discount on purchases.














Another quick walk had us at the Brisbane Botanical Gardens opposite the Royal Park Hotel where we saw a Brunei flag proudly displayed.
In the gardens we relaxed, some choosing to read, others climbed a tree, some rolled and ran about on the soft grass in lovely warm weather.












All After our rest it was time to walk across the Goodwill Bridge to Mado Restaurant. The food was great - the meat was especially liked by all!

Our journey then took us to the Currumbin Sanctuary. This is a superb place to visit day or night. The children were given the opportunity to hold a snake, crocodile and koala. They could see nocturnal Australian marsupials. Some of the experiences were an active Tasmanian devil - they are always sleeping when I have ever visited a zoo, kangaroos - not a couple but at least fifty feeding together - it was an incredible experience to be surrounded by so many kangaroos. The tour finished with a dance and song by an Aboriginal dance troupe which impressed us all - Sassa! (The children will tell you about sassa on their return.)

Finally back to bed - they were asleep in minutes!