Sydney

Our glorious return to Sydney...wasn't exactly glorious. Sydney is a truly great city - I would honestly say one of the best that I've ever seen. I would happily return again and spend time exclusively here, and I hope that someday we do.

We ended up spending a lot of time outside of Sydney with Kelvin and Yan Shih, which was good, and even more time trying to get our car rental for Europe sorted, which was not as good but certainly necessary. We made the mistake of waiting too long to rent the Europe car, and have been pestering our friend Janna, who is a travel agent near Sydney, to help us. And, alas, another friend with a tiny halo over her head, she got it all sorted and we signed the paperwork and paid all our money and now have a car in Europe.

But, it was at the expense of seeing a lot of Sydney. We did the show at the opera house the first night (see previous entry), then spent most of the second day looking up info about the Europe car and securing accommodation in the city (since we decided it would be better for us to actually see some of Sydney from a more central location than Kelvin and Yan Shih's house). The second night we walked back to the opera house to take some night pics of the neat patterns of light they project onto the structure which are really neat. See?:Our second day we finally secured the booking of the car over the phone with Janna and then went to lunch in the city with Kelvin. We made it to the museum near Hyde Park (which was ok) and then wandered over to Darling Harbour for a snack before heading out to the suburbs (in heavy traffic) to hang out with Kelvin and Yan Shih again for our last night.

We had to leave early Saturday to get to Janna's office before noon to sign Europe car paperwork. And now it's finally done! We've been hanging out with Janna for a day in a town called Terrigal north of Sydney and later today (Sunday) leave for Newcastle.