We left our hotel and flew a few hours to Sydney. Once we landed there was a time change so it was later in the afternoon. We took a taxi to our hotel and dropped off our bags in our room. We walked down to the Harbour and there was a huge boat that looked like a knocked over skyscraper. It was a cruise ship. Once we passed by it we saw the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Bridge.
We looked for dinner by the water but had to go further into "The Rocks" to find any food Sage and Zaddek would eat. We ended up at a really busy outdoor Italian Restaurant. We got a table and had pasta and pizza for dinner. While we were eating we heard some fireworks going off behind us in the harbour. We weren't close enough to go see it before it ended so we missed an opportunity for some cool photos of the fireworks over the Sydney Opera House. We finished our dinner and headed back to our hotel passing by Christmas lights in the city.
The next morning we headed back down to the harbour and found an awesome restaurant for a crepe brunch. Then we caught a bus for Bondi Beach. At the change rooms we put on our suits and headed down to the crowded beach. There were a ton of people on the shore but not as many in the water because it was really cold so we had lots of room to body surf in the huge waves. After a couple of hours we had to go back because Mom, Dad and Sage were cold in the water but getting sunburnt on the beach. We took the bus back to the harbour and walked to our hotel to rest in the air conditioning while Mom and Dad went for Thai to bring back to us.
On our last day in Australia we put our bags in storage at the hotel and walked to the harbour one last time. We loved the crepes so much the day before we decided to go back again. (We did the same thing with crepes in Athens, Greece.)
From there we walked over to a local outdoor market to look for Christmas presents. Unfortunately we didn't find anything. After that we headed up to the bridge. From there we had a great view of the harbour.
We doubled back across the bridge and walked around the harbour to the Sydney Opera House.
The design was really cool but we couldn't go inside so we sat down and took a break after a long day of walking.
After an afternoon around the Opera House we had a few hours to kill before our flight to Hawaii and it was very hot so we went to a movie.
We let Sage pick what movie we would watch because she didn't really enjoy much of the historical monuments we usually visit. After the Grinch we picked up our backpacks and went to the airport for our flight. We waited in a big line for baggage drop off just for them to tell us our flight was cancelled and that we were on the next flight in the morning. They gave everyone on the flight a free hotel room and free food for the night but by the time we took a shuttle to the hotel and got dinner we ate at 9 at night. We went straight to sleep after that for our early flight the next morning.
Total buses: 2
Total shuttles: 1
Total taxis: 1
Total miles walked: 2, 5 and 6.5 miles
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