Sydney

Thursday, October 10, 2013

We had a great time in Sydney last weekend.  We are now back in Canberra.  The kids have the rest of the week off and I'm enjoying my time with them.  Erich is back to work. I am going to share with you everything we did in Sydney!

We took a train into Sydney.  The kids loved it and said it was one of their
favorite things about the trip. This picture was taken as we went over the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

 

We went to the top of the Sydney Tower.  It was incredible!

 

The Sydney Harbor Bridge

 

It was the Royal Australian Naval Fleet Review.  Several different nations sent ships to participate, including the U.S.  It was really cool to see from the tower.  This also meant lots of crowds.  One news channel said there were over a million people attending the naval review.

Since the whole country has holiday at the same time, lots of places do extra things for the kids.  The Sydney Tower had a table set up for kids to make a picture and turn it into a kite. Charlie drew a picture of himself by the Sydney Opera House.  Chaney drew a princess.

 

The Sydney Opera House.  This was as close as we got to the Opera House. 
We didn't feel like fighting the million people that were there. 

Aboriginal Street Performers

Sharing a cool drink.

There were several of these large yellow snails around downtown Sydney.

This was taken from the Sydney Tower and if you look in the middle of the
 picture you can see a yellow dot. That is the yellow snail in the
previous picture.  And if you look really closely at this picture, you can see the kids waving.
(just joking.) You can also see the shadow of the tower.

That night there was a huge fireworks show down at the harbor.
 Our hotel room was on the 8th floor
and could kinda see the fireworks.  Kinda. If you look
really close, you can see the fireworks on the horizon.

And that is just day one in Sydney!  I'll share more another day!

 

My Random Thoughts and Observations...

• Erich wore his KU Jayhawk hat as we went around Sydney.  On gal told him the bird on his hat was cute. Cute.  I think I would use the word tough to describe the mighty Jayhawk. The Aussie at the Sydney Tower ticket counter asked, "Did you go to Kansas?"  He watches U.S. college basketball. Rock Chalk!
• One of the nights we had a booking for dinner at the hotel restaurant.  Every other table was there for the same conference.  We felt a little out of place.  But we met an American couple from Illinois!
• This last weekend we set our clocks ahead an hour for daylight savings time.  So now we are 16 hours ahead of the U.S. central time zone.
• In Australia, white goods refers to appliances.
• While in Sydney, I saw a sign in a shop window.  It was an advertisement for a "bikini and 1/2 leg wax."  I'm trying to figure out what half of the leg you would wax if you were also getting a bikini wax...  Hmmm...