Date Night

At the Q1, Todd needs smiling lessons :)

True to his word, Todd has been keeping my life interesting so that I have something to occupy you all with. I think I am just going to have to blog forever because I love when he gets this proactive! This week we had a date night. The last time I was here, he promised he would take me to the top of the Q1, and this can now be checked off my list. The Q1 was the tallest residential building in the Southern Hemisphere (until that monstrosity in Dubai), but the view from the Skypoint Bar (over 700 feet in the air) is truly phenomenal. We walked around the building soaking up the view, while reading the facts and advertising plastered to the floor. Todd used to live in this impressive chick-magnet with his friend Russell, so he showed me the view they had and this experience completely solidified the fact that I never want to live in a building over 10 stories high. Hitchcock wrote that movie about a very real thing… yah, no thanks!

Dinner with the herbs under heat lambs

From vertigo central, we went to the Italian restaurant Vapianos, which was a very unique dining experience. When you enter, you are given a swipe card and all your food and drink purchases are put on the card. This is probably the way of the future, and although it didn’t really affect our one bill meal, if we would have been there with a group, this system would have been a G-d send. We looked at the menu, ordered drinks from the bar, and then walked up to the pasta station and the chef made our food in front of us. Despite the semi-fast-food feel, the quality and taste was superior.  Perhaps the best part of all was that every ledge, table and shelf, had different potted herbs so that you could go around the restaurant and add basil, rosemary, cilantro, mint, etc. to your hearts content. I can definitely see why this restaurant is opening chains all across Australia, and the night, like the restaurant, was an overwhelming success! 

Cooking station

View of the ocean when we arrived at twilight

Night view of Surfers Paradise