Friday, December 23, 2005
Today started off pretty lazy as we slept in later than we have the entire trip. We didn't have anything urgent that we just had to see, so we figured we'd take it easy before we started back and just pop around Sydney and do the stuff that we wanted to do. We grabbed breakfast at a little cafe near our hotel and caught the bus into Sydney, back to Circular Quay which is the main harbour for all of the Ferries. We caught the "Rivercat" over to Sydney Olympic Park. That ended up being a relaxing 50 minute trip, but when we got to the location of the Olympics, it was like a ghost town. There didn't appear to be too much there, so we got a few pics and then hit the train back into town. We made it back around lunchtime. We had wanted to find Harry's Cafe de Wheels to have their famous meat pies, but we were ready to eat and didn't feel like we had time to go searching in Woolloomooloo for it, so we just hit a cafe close to the harbour and found some pretty good meat pies. I personally think that the Australian Bakery in Marietta is better.
After lunch, we headed over to Luna Park to ride a few rides. It's kind of like Coney Island in New York. We rode bumper cars, the roller coaster, and a few carnival rides. After we rode the Ferry back to Circular Quay, we caught the train to head over to the Australia museum. We're not huge on museums, but they had a pretty cool exhibit on animitronics and movie monsters. It was interesting, but not big enough. They also had an exhibit on wildlife photography which was really nice. We finished up in enough time to catch the bus back to our hotel and grab a quick shower before Anthony and Melody picked us up for supper at their place. Our plan is to go back to the hotel afterwards and get everything packed up to prepare for our trip back to the states. We'll be seeing everyone soon.
Greg
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