Halloween Night at the Museum

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For Halloween me, the Aussie and Naomi paid a visit to the Museum of Brisbane for their Fright night at the Museum event.

Skull and Pal

We haven’t been to the Museum of Brisbane yet and the event included a free fifteen minute tour of the clock tower which can be seen from all over Brisbane CBD so we thought we may as well visit.

The tour began with us waiting at the reception and an actress (we hope it was an actress!) who we named scary lady (original I know) came shuffling into reception with one high heel and one flat shoe looking particularly ghostly! She came shuffling towards us and very kindly focused on me. She seemed to mimic what those around her did which was a bit freaky!

We then walked up to the lift to join the tour of the bell tower. As I went to get into the lift I tried to take a picture through the glass and this happened (see scary!):

The lift tour itself was really interesting, telling the story of how the tower was built and what kind of impact it had on the Brisbane area and we all agreed we would do it again. There weren’t any frightening stories, not sure if that was because there was a child on the tour or because that wasn’t the intention of the tour but it also didn’t matter.

We got out of the lift, which was the same as when it was built, above the clock faces and were treated to almost 360 degree views of Brisbane which was pretty nice.

Brisbane CBD looking towards Queen Street

On the way down we stopped on the floor with the clock faces but didn’t get out, however we still had great views of the clock faces.

At the end of the clock tower tour we were invited to look around the museum which had some good halloween decorations, a Vampire DJ and the scary lady wandering around. At one point I was on my own looking at a display and turned around to find her watching me! I hightailed it out of there.

Fright Night at the Museum

As we were leaving Naomi and I looked down a corridor which was mainly closed of and found the scary lady still in character walking down the corridor!!! She turned around and we literally ran through the museum (who knew I could run!).

We finished the night at the Museum and headed home through the beautiful entry way to City Hall.

Entry Way City Hall

Cuddly Koalas

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Firstly today is my Mum’s birthday so I want to wish her the happiest of birthdays xxx

The mum of one of our lovely American friends visited Brisbane for 3 weeks during October and we got to go along on some of their family adventures which included the trip to Draculas and also a visit to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Fig Tree Pocket.

I really enjoyed our trip, we spent about 3 hours there in total and saw nearly all of the animals that live at the sanctuary. We purchased a yearly pass ticket which cost us $52, it is cheaper to buy the tickets online and we know we will visit again at least with my family and will also pop back with any other visitors who may come to stay if they fancy it.

We headed straight to the general store so I could buy a ticket to have a cuddle with and photograph with a koala. I loved this but it did cost $20. However, having been to other tourist attractions in Australia this seems about right and I did think it was worth it. I have never seen a koala in “real life” and the experience was brilliant.

After hugging a koala we visited the kangaroo paddock where you can literally sit down and have your photos taken with the kangaroos. I bought some kangaroo food for $2 and the kangaroos would take the food out of your hand and very very gently!

We walked around the paddock and there were a few kangaroos who had babies and you could see the babies squirming around in the pouches which was pretty special.

Next up we stopped for some icecream (of course) before walking back round to the area where the keepers do talks about the koalas. There we found them changing over the eucalyptus plants and were treated to a show by the koalas as they dashed around trying to find the perfect leaves! This really made my day as we were so close to the koalas but they were happy to potter around doing their own thing, when they could be bothered to move that is.

Finally we had a wander around the rest of the enclosures and found dingos, crocodiles, wombats, very shy tasmanian devils and plenty of birds.

As I said above, we had a great day out at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary so I would definitely say that if you find yourself in the area it is well worth a visit!

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