Jacarandas

There is a kind of beautiful purple tree in Brisbane. That calls Jacarandas, Moreover, during these few weeks, that is the full bloom of the purple flowers from Jacarandas. It got an interesting name, “Exam flower”. It got full bloom during the exam period of university. In addition, this kind of tree is common in Brisbane, you can see a lot of purple tree along the roads or in parks such as New Farm and Botanic Garden. For me, I like to go to UQ Lakes at University of Queensland St. Lucia Campus.
Last Saturday, I went to there for watching this Purple Rain. That was quite magnificent. There is a corridor near the bus station, both sides along the pathway have Jacarandas. I felt like in Japan, the sky turned to purple. That was so nice. I recommend that is a family activity.

Jacarandas

UQ Lakes got a large grassland. Your family can have a picnic in there and enjoy the scene of purple rain. Lastly, the car park near UQ Lakes are free to park during Saturday and Sunday. Please do not miss that.

Jacarandas

 


 2015 Grand Central Floral Parade

I have been Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers a number of times. However, this year, that was the first times to attend the 2015 Grand Central Floral Parade. There were a number of local groups are involved, such local radio station, shops and charity groups. I think there were more than 20 floats taken part.  A number of people watched the parade.  A few rows of people packed along the parade route. We arrived quite late, so we were at the back. That was the reason we cannot see the parade very clearly. At the end, we were only in there for 30 minutes.

 2015 Grand Central Floral Parade

Although we were not enjoy the parade, there were many good things to do. For example, we had a quick walk in Queens Park. There were many flowers.

Queens ParkAlso, we had a short stay in USQ Japanese Garden too. This garden is beautiful. I felt like I was in Japan.

USQ

Picnic Point Toowoomba,

Lastly, we had a stop-over in picnic point. The view in there were good!

 

Spanish Like Bun@Parkland

Spanish Like Bun

Last week, I had a new kind of Bun in Parkland restaurant. They were quite tasty. Outside looks like a spanish style bun, inside has BBQ pork. I love it, you can try it when you go to Parkland for a yum cha.

Address
Shop 38
Sunny Park Shopping Centre
Cnr Mains Road and McCullough Street
Sunnybank
Qld 4109

Tel: 07-3345 4588

Highfresh Supermarket

Highfresh supermarket is one of major chinese grocery stores in Sunnybank area, but it has been closed for renovation before. Today, I was in Market Square. I found they reopened. Of course I entered this store for “inspections”.  That is good, the owner really did a good job, the store has a new interior! The interior is modernized, more similar with CitySuper.  I love it.

Highfresh Supermarket

315-317 mains road
Sunnybank,
07- 3219 5388