20 February 2009
We arrived on the 20th at about 10 o’clock and left our bags and decided to walk around this really awesome park. It had a mini rainforest and there were all these awesomely large spiders and the highlight were the bats. They were so cute I wanted to pet them, I had never seen bats in real life before, only in pictures. We got kind of lost in the park and had to ask this guy how to get out, and we managed it. We had a look at the opera house and took some photos. Didn’t go in though, because I mean the real beauty of it is on the outside anyway! We found a nice restaurant to have lunch at, that was pretty yum. I ate a baby octopus and felt kind of bad! After that we just wandered slowly back to the hotel, and on the way we bought fruit from a fruit stand. It was really weird because it was like a magazine stand but with fruit… We got back to the hotel and just fell asleep because we were so tired since we’d been up since 4.30am. For dinner we just went to a takeout place called Oporto, then went back to the hotel and slept more.
21 February 2009
Today we went to the Sydney Aquarium, which was neat. We got to see the manatees (dewgong). They were so super cute, I managed to get some awesome photos which I’ll upload here when I get home! We also saw lots of sharks, stingray and lots of tropical fish. It was really interesting because you walked through these tubes which went through the enclosure, so you could see them from underwater. After the aquarium, we went to Paddy’s market, and I bought so much awesome clothing for cheap. I got these awesome badass pants and a jacket, which I’m sure will turn up in some of my photos so I will also post those here when I get back. We had dinner at this fantastic Italian restaurant, I had some really weird pasta. Our waiter was so neat too! Everyone who worked there was actually Italian which was nice and it set the mood really nicely! It was the best meal ever.
Anyway, I’m running out of time on this internet thing so I will blog about the rest later! Take care everyone!
