I just went to Calamvale Central for lunch. For the most of time, the car park won’t be full. Even normally, there is not many car parked in there. But Today there is nearly full of car!
Although the shopping center is not full of people, there are still quite busy. Wow, everyone is crazy about Christmas Shopping!
I went to Garden City this afternoon. There are full of people. The car park are full. The management opened the staff car park for customer parking too! I parked in there. That is a bit far away from the shopping center, 5 minutes walking distance.
The food court are quite full too. Moreover, there are many people doing their Christmas shopping too. That looks like Christmas holidays has arrived. Actually, today is not a public holiday!
However, there is somethings good. There is a special counter to provide gift wrapping service.
Have you done your Christmas shopping? I think all major shopping centers will be full of people today and tomorrow!
In the Chinese Traditional Custom,in New Year, we will put some money into a red pocket and give them to kids as the new year present. They calls it, “Red Pocket Money”.
I found Australian got a similar custom! But that will happen in Christmas time. Today, there is a “special” Christmas card which has a pocket stick on itself. This pocket is for putting Money or Gift Card. This kind of Christmas card is very similar with our Chinese Red Pocket! That’s interesting!
I went to City for Christmas Shopping tonight. I found there is full of people, this Sunday is Christmas. That is still a few days away. I believe that is because there is night shopping every night until 23/12. Most of shops will opens up to 9pm. On 23/12, they will open to Mid-night. Everyone needs to do Christmas Shopping!
Moreover, there is a lot of special events happening in there too! I saw a lot of act performances and Christmas Carol.
Well , there is a Christmas Parade at 7 pm too!
The parade team is not very big. There is various types of performances, such as singing and dancing. Moreover, we can stand very close to the parade team. You can shake hand with some performers too.
There are three real camels too!
Of course, we have Santa too!
Don’t miss the Christmas Parade! Christmas Parade will be held at 7pm every night in Queen Street Mall until 23/12.
Please click here to view the Christmas Parade Photo Album.
For further details about Christmas at Brisbane City, please visit bnecity.com.au
Dinner@Brisbane
In Hong Kong, dining out is a part of our daily routine, but that is not apply in Brisbane! Dining out is very expensive. Even a take-away dinner can cost you $8! If you want to dinner at a restaurant, that is around $20. Thus, at the most of time, we will cook at home. That will only cost you around $3 per meal! You can save a lot of money to eat at home.
