After a hectic day yesterday, we slept in this morning, which was nice. At about 10:30, when we finally emerged from our hotel, we found that it was going to be a rainy, dreary day in Sydney. So we were especially glad that we made a full day of it yesterday. We originally had planned to go to the Botanical Gardens today but, given the weather, changed our plans. We went to an area called the Rocks down by the harbour and had lunch at the Australian Hotel. There we had a local micro-brew and a kangaroo and emu pizza. Yummy! After that we walked out onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge for another view of the Opera House and bay area (albeit in a slight drizzle) and then to a craft market where we bought a souvenir Christmas ornament. Since it was
still raining we then caught a bus over to Darling Harbour to the IMAX Theatre (with the world's largest screen) to watch Deep Ocean in 3D. It was awesome and brought back fond memories of our Great Barrier Reef adventures, especially of the cleaning stations where we repeatedly saw LARGE fish (like grouper, cod and sea bass) waiting in line at specific coral formations to be cleaned of parasites by small wrasses. Now we are heading to dinner for some noodles in Chinatown and will decide afterwards if we are up for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie or a beer at the Three Wise Monkeys Bar.
After a hectic day yesterday, we slept in this morning, which was nice. At about 10:30, when we finally emerged from our hotel, we found that it was going to be a rainy, dreary day in Sydney. So we were especially glad that we made a full day of it yesterday. We originally had planned to go to the Botanical Gardens today but, given the weather, changed our plans. We went to an area called the Rocks down by the harbour and had lunch at the Australian Hotel. There we had a local micro-brew and a kangaroo and emu pizza. Yummy! After that we walked out onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge for another view of the Opera House and bay area (albeit in a slight drizzle) and then to a craft market where we bought a souvenir Christmas ornament. Since it was
still raining we then caught a bus over to Darling Harbour to the IMAX Theatre (with the world's largest screen) to watch Deep Ocean in 3D. It was awesome and brought back fond memories of our Great Barrier Reef adventures, especially of the cleaning stations where we repeatedly saw LARGE fish (like grouper, cod and sea bass) waiting in line at specific coral formations to be cleaned of parasites by small wrasses. Now we are heading to dinner for some noodles in Chinatown and will decide afterwards if we are up for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie or a beer at the Three Wise Monkeys Bar.
3 comments:
You two "Hollywoods". The pictures are great!! About the "burgers", it will make you appreciate the BBQ pork & mutton more when you get home. Have Amy & Brian had their baby?
For some reason our first comment on this did not show comment 1. Dad suggested that I send another one to see if it would register. Here it is.
Gary and Shelley: Yes. We definitely miss the mutton. As for Brian and Amy, Nicholas was born about a week ago. Brian reports that mom and baby are doing great.
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