SYDNEY!

Sooooo, I'm in Sydney!

We left on Wednesday night from Brisbane, flying to Sydney and arriving around 11:00 pm. It was nice to have a short flight. I'm not sure how I'm feeling about my 26 hours of flying on the way home! : )

On Thursday morning Aunt Cass had some things to do in the morning so around 11 am we left to go shopping in the city! Now, I can't tell you the majority of what I bought because most things are gifts, but I WILL tell you that it was an incredibly successful shopping day! Talk about shopping 'til you drop. That was us. We figure that we walked for about 8 hours straight yesterday! Isn't that wild?

Aaaaaaaand, for anyone who knows my immense scared-ness of heights, you will be SO proud of me. There is a place called the Centrepoint Tower, and basically it's 305 metres high (same height as the Eiffel Tower!) and it overlooks all of Sydney. Well, I went up it!!! Isn't that amazing? And I wasn't even scared. Next stop, CN Tower. I will do it one day!

We came home last night and absolutely crashed. We went to bed early to get up early-ish this morning for some more sight seeing!

We started by going to Macquarie Street in Syndey and saw St. Mary's Cathedral. What beautiful architecture! We couldn't take pictures so I can't show you that but it was absolutely beautiful!

After Macquarie Street, we went over to the Botanical Gardens and had morning tea! It makes you feel like such a lady, having morning and afternoon tea. I've vowed that it is a tradition I will keep up when I'm home and I fully intend to. It really is such fun.

Well, what's next? Oh yes. After tea, we went for a long walk along the Sydney hardbour. Oh my goodness. I have wanted to see the Sydney Opera House, and never really thought it was something that would happen for me... but it did.

We were walking along the harbour and I saw it and honestly, I'll admit that I squealed! I took heaps of pictures and it was such an incredible thing. But hey, it doesn't stop there! Not at all. After walking around the harbour, we walked to the Opera House and took a tour!!! It was SO amazing... absolutely beautiful. And I learned tonnes about it too, which was great.

Normally you can't take any pictures in any of the theatres at the Opera House for whatever reason, but we were SO lucky today... we were given permission to take pictures in THE most gorgeous theatre of all of them! I was so thankful that it worked out that way. I'll put those pictures up once I'm back in Brissie because I can't upload them here.

This afternoon we went to Manly on the ferry and went for a long walk on the beach. After that we went out for dinner (which was lovely!) and then made our way back into the city.

Tomorrow Aunt Cass's Mum's house is being auctioned off, so we'll be going to that. We're also hoping to see Cronulla, which is where Aunt Cass grew up. Should be good.

Sunday will probably end up being a day that we spend with the family and that sounds like fun to me.

We leave on Monday night to go back to Brisbane, but we'll be back into the city going to the Rocks, the Sydney Harbour bridge (we're going to walk it!) and we'll go to Luna Park. All of which was pretty well known around here and/or internationally.

I don't think I probably need to reiterate that my life is amazing, but...

My life is amazing.

I love you all and look forward to seeing you when I'm back in Canada!

Love,

Bec*