Some of our activities summarized below:
-Walked around the city and through a neighborhood called ‘The Rocks’, which is (I think) the oldest and coolest part of the city. They had a great open air market on Sunday, where I restrained myself from buying things like scented candles, flavored hot sauce, unattractive jewelry, etc. Great neighborhood, great views of the harbor!
-Went to the Opera house twice, both of which times we were denied tours (no tours on Sunday, booked on Monday). We’re going to try again today before we leave today.
-Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb!! This was definitely our highlight for Sydney. There is this
beautiful bridge that an engineer with a little foresight built about 100 years ago, complete with a very safe infrastructure to tour guests around all day/night. We climbed up over the arcs of the bridge at dusk, so we got to see the sun set over Sydney, and all the lights come on … SO fun -Bondi Beach: We went to bondi beach (see picture of chad and I on cliffs- clearly not
‘beach weather’), to do a mini hike on the cliffs between bondi and other nearby beaches. I had recently done my first bit of real shopping before our walk, so was in great spirits.-Blue Mountain Wilderness Tour: I nearly killed Chad for booking us into a very expensive and non-refundable tour through the “mountains” (hills) outside of Sydney. After beautiful queenstown, I pretty much never wanted to see a mountain again, but we made the best of it and it was highly educational (and kind of pretty, AND I got free wine at lunch).
Today, we’re going to try to break into the opera house, go to the zoo where chad is undoubtedly going to leave disappointed because it’s illegal to hold a koala (and that’s all he’s wanted to do in Sydney). Our flight to Honolulu leaves @ 6pm, and we’ll have a day to kill tomorrow in Hawaii (I have a few ideas)!
Love, Chad and morgs
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