On my last full day in Brisbane Mom finally let me pet a kangaroo

Oh my, he was much more excited about this than the photo shows.

We took a boat cruise to the koala sanctuary with Sara and Cooper. The boys were pretty rowdy on the way there.

Sara knows just how to pet the kangaroos, she's a kangaroo whisperer.And lastly some snippets from this weekend's Riverfire - a purely decadent event where Brisbane puts on a fireworks show just for the fun of it.

Cooper's family and our friend Leo (and his parents) came for a visit. FFM was pretty happy to have his buds around.

The city buildings get all 'decked' out with nifty lights for the event.

The scope of these fireworks was amazing, there's a giant horseshoe bend in the river where we live, and we could see the THREE barges of fireworks in front of us (I only catch one in the video) AND the barges across the city on the river on the other side of the horseshoe. Fireworks are shot off of two bridges and the tops of the city skyscrapes. The show starts and ends with an F111 fighter jet screaming through the city doing a fuel dump which leaves a streak of flame across the sky. I caught a tiny bit of it in the video (which is the end of the show but I posted first since it's the better one and if you're only going to watch one watch that one. However to get the idea of the true breadth and scope you've really got to see the second one). Make sure you've turned the volume down, these are a bit loud.