2. We spent an hour riding a bus down to the train station at Helensvale. The hotel receptionist instructed us to ride a certain bus that would take us to the train station. Unfortunately the bus drove around Gold Coast, from the various resorts, shopping malls, to the local university.
3. It was almost noon when we arrived at the train station. We then took a train to Southbank. From there we had to take another bus to Brisbane. Just as I was wondering if travelling to Brisbane was a good idea, the bus finally arrived at the city. We were thrilled to see the tall buidlings and the busy streets.
4. The bus station was under the Myers Mall. We got out of the bus and started malling. Jen began to window shop while I visited the local bookstores. We began touring downtown Brisbane. There was a certain bus that went around the city, carrying passengers for free. We rode in this bus and got a free tour of Brisbane. Judging from the sheer number of people and shops, this city was more lively than Sydney & Melbourne.
5. We stopped by the local bontanical park of Brisbane. The park was situated beside the shore and the local university. We continued walking (and window shopping) until seven o'clock. By dinnertime, we decide to eat at Subways, ordering 2 six inch sandwich with cookies & soda for 9.95 AUD.
8. After eating our sandwiches we went back to Myers to catch the train and bus heading back to surfers paradise. By then we were exhausted from all the walking. I bought a couple of local books, so I spent the train ride browsing through the stuff I bought.
9. We got back to Gold Coast around nine-thirty. There was still enough time for us to visit the night market along the beach (it closes around ten). So we got off the main street and began strolling through the night market. We saw some jewelry, handmade soap, chinese stuff, foam lizard, leather stuff, crocodile skin and shark tooth keychains. Jen was looking for street food, unfortunately there were no fishballs.
10. Before going back to the hotel, we decided to buy some food. We spent half an hour walking aroudn the beach's shopping plaza, looking for something to devour. Finally we bought a large blueberry muffin at 7-11 and two scoops of ice cream at Copenhagen.
11. We walked back to resort around eleven in the evening. There were no buses along the plaza so we decided to use our two feet. It was chilly cold but we were glad to get the exercise.
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