I hate winter....

So today was our first proper day in Sydney, and given it was the first day of our holidays we obviously took it easy and had nice lay in this morning..... Yeah right.... Like jetlag has ever been so kind. having both woken up by around 5:30am with little or no hope of returning to sleep, we decided to have a look what time sunrise was and have a wander out with our cameras and see what we could see. Sure enough we got some great views of early morning Sydney, and with any luck some pictures to go with it. Check these out:

We ended up walking across the harbour bridge, and into a rather nice area of Sydney which was clearly intended for those with lots of money..... I'm pretty sure a view of the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge from your front room window doesn't come cheap!

About 10am we decided enough was enough and headed back to the hotel via ferry. We went and found some breakfast, then on to Taronga Zoo for the day. The Zoo was pretty good, and th one show of the day we did manage to catch - the Bird show was fantastic. Birds swooping down low over the audience then doing anything from flying out to a member of the crowd and snatching a 2 dollar coin from their hand, then returning it minutes later, right through to the bird that broke open an emu egg using a nearby rock. It was all very impressive.

By the time we had finished we were both shattered and just wanted to get some lunch / tea. We'd planned on going to Doyles in Watsons bay, but the Ferries let us down so ended up eating round Darling Harbour instead. It was very pleasant, but standing up after sitting down for a little over an hour was hard work given the day we just had. I just got out the bath and decided to add in the days events before heading out for the evening. Matt however is asleep so plans for going out this evening may well get aborted.... given how tired I feel currently I can't really say I'm bothered.

Finally on the subject of Winter.... Yesterday was 23 degrees C, today was 26 Degrees C, both having copious amounts of sunshine and generally great weather. I'm already catching the sun despite sun tan lotion, and will happily make you all sick with my tan on my return. If this is Winter then please let it be winter all year round!

Arrival

After an gruelling economy class flight from Heathrow (starting on Sat 7th April) we arrived in Sydney at the hotel around 7am (Sydney time, on the 9th of April), to find our room wasn't ready (surprise), we ended up waiting till 2pm to get the room, which gave us time to have a walk round and remember where everything was. So we saw the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour, and had a walk round The Rocks... Finally re-aquainted ourselves with a couple of bottles of James Boags lager while waiting the last few minutes for the room in the hotel bar... mmmmm, fantastic. The weather was great, rained a little around 8am but after that was sunny and cloudy sometimes but still nice and warm, 23c :)

I know this post should have come before Dan's more eloquent one, but i was asleep :)