Since yesterday, our Queensland  serves the extreme weather. Northern Queensland has some floods and tornadoes.  That was very bad.

Today, the bad weather is moving to Brisbane.  There is heavy rain around Brisbane. When I went to Garden City this afternoon for lunch, some of roads have very minor floods. Moreover, there were very very strong winds.   After my lunch, I backed to home.  The weather went more worse.  Now, there are strong winds and heavy winds. I suggest  everyone in Brisbane should stay home and keep your eyes on the notification for this extreme weather from Queensland Government Website.

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This Saturday is our Australian Day. There will be a lot of celebrations across the states. For our Brisbane, i think the largest event is the Australian Day Festival at the Southbank parkland. This event will start at 10am. There will have some live performances.Also, the key part will be the flag raising ceremony at 11.30am. The defense force will raise the flags for Australian,  Queensland ,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in the Culture Front. Moreover, 21-gun military salute and F/A-18F Super Hornet flypast will be the important part of this ceremony too.

That sounds a must-go event for Australian Day!

Reference:
Australia Day Festival

I believe The most popular event of new year celebration is the count down and fireworks in southbank. According to the information from my friends who joined this event,there was a lot of people in there. The whole southbank river wall was likely full of people. Moreover,the fireworks was brilliant. That is the mixture of fireworks and laser in the show. They had a good fun in there. That is too bad,  i could go to there because of i had to work.

Last Saturday, I went to the Artificial beach  in southbank. Well, I did not go there for swimming. Actually, I went there for watching a movie,Elf.  The southbank management company placed a huge LED screen in the beach and played two movies every night. This was a part of Christmas Celebration in Southbank.

This was my first times to join this kind of Sunset Cinema. That was very cool. I sat on the beach and had some chats with my friends while we were watching the movie. That was so relaxing. Moreover, there were some other people who chose a cooler way to enjoy this sunset cinema. They swam while the movie was screening. In the hot weather, I believe they could cool down themselves and enjoy the movie at the same time!

I wish there will be this kind of activity next year. Although the movie is quite old, I have watched this movie on TV before, I like to have this kind of sunset cinema again. That was very comfortable to watch movie and that is free of charge too!

Early of this week i went to calamvale for watching Christmas lights. But that was a bit disappointed, not every house has and setup Christmas lights in his/her garden.

Thus, i did some researches for this. Finally, I found the information from 4KQ Radio.There is a list of Christmas Lights winners.   Well, I picked a winner’s home which is near my family. That is the 2nd Place Residential South ,16 Edith Street Kingston.

That is very impressive!!! The owner turned their home into a giant Christmas light display!!! The whole garden is full of Christmas lights. Moreover, it placed a little railway system in their garden too!

I believe your kids will love that! Please be quick to visit there, Christmas is only few days away. Those Christmas lights will be gone soon!

Address:

16 Edith Street

Kingston
QLD 4114

There is a little street in Calamvale where almost every home setup beautiful Christmas lights in their garden every year. Putting Christmas lights on your own house is a kind of Australian custom for Christmas .

Same as previous years. I went there last night for watching  Christmas lights. Only around four to five houses has Christmas lights. Moreover , the scale is smaller. I was quite disappointed about this.

Fortunately, I heard from my friends. There are some homes have huge Christmas lights in near suburbs. I need to do some research about this.

Address:

Liam Court, Calamvale, Queensland 4116

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In Australia, there are a lot of people who are busy with buying Christmas presents for friends and relatives during this week. Thus, some shopping centers have extended their trading hours for Christmas shoppers, such as Chermside and Garden City. During weekdays, they open up to 9pm. On Thursday, they will open until mid-night. If you have not done your Christmas shopping yet, please keep on the trading hours of your local shopping centers. Maybe, you have some extra time to shop!

Yesterday, I went to Queen Street Mall to watch its Christmas Parade. Wow, there were a lot of people watching that!

For the things to see, that was Christmas Parade. They must be about Christmas.

For example, Christmas Choir:

 The shepherds

Three Wise-Men

Also, please pay attention toon the photo. All animals were real! There were camels, sheep and donkeys in the parade!

Ho-Ho-Ho, the parade had Santa Claus with his sleigh. Look! The sleigh was pulled by real reindeer

Besides the Christmas theme performance, there were some other performances such as dancing

And an acrobatic gymnastics performance was in the parade too! This was very impressive, I loved it!

 Well, this was a parade. Thus, it could be without a marching band!

This was very impressive. There were great performances and  those cute real animals. If you are in the city around evening time, until 23/12, this parade will  take place in Queen Street Mall at 6.30pm everyday.

Last year, I went to Queen Street for watching Christmas Parade. That was very great! The parade has returned.  Since yesterday to 23/12, the parade will take part in Queen Street Mall at 6.30pm. I will go there to watch that next week.

 
Source:
The City
 

I had a cup of potato gems in springwood. That is around $2.50. It is a cheap! Moreover, I love this kind of food a lot, I like its texture. I like it more than chips! Lastly, I cannot find it in Hong Kong, I only can find this in Australia.

Address:
Arndale Shopping Centre,
17-27 Cinderella Drive,
Springwood
QLD 412