Day Two in the Land Down Under

On our second day in Australia, we had a tour of the area we were staying in, which was called "The Rocks". There were several historical points to the tour, but our tour guide was so awful, we really didn't pay attention! The tour ended at the Opera House, which we could see from the window in our hotel room. What an amazing building that was! After a couple of hours, the tour ended and we went off on our own. We took a very scenic tour of the city of Sydney. We walked around forever and ever. We wen to Chinatown to a market that had tons of vendors and they were all fairly inexpensive. We kind of mapped out the prices and what souvenirs we were going to get and then headed back to our hotel. We headed back to get ready for dinner and thought we would head back to Chinatown to have some dinner. Again, we walked forever trying to find something that looked good that was a price we were willing to pay. All the restuarants were so expensive and nothing sounded good. We finally ended up in a mall in Chinatown that had ten different places to buy Chinese food. We found something that looked edible and we thought $9 a plate sounded great. By this time we were starving and the food wasn't even that great! That was the end to our second day.

A sideways view of downtown. (I can't get the pic to rotate and I can't delete. I hate this blog sometimes!)

You would see these weird looking birds about as often as you saw pigeons and seagulls.

A view of the harbor from the steps of the Opera House.

You'll see a lot of pictures like this. We didn't make very many friends so we had to take our own pictures of ourselves!

The Opera House

This bridge was huge. They had these tours that you would walk up the bridge to the very top and then walk back down the other side.

This was a view of our hotel from the road. Our hotel is the one in the background with the yellow lettering. It was called the Shangri-La Hotel. The Australian Hotel you can see in the foreground served pizzas and we had a crocodile pizza there. They called pubs hotels.

This is what our bed looked like every night. They came in and turned the bed down, put out a bookmark, layed out the remote and tv tray, and then put slippers out by the bedside. It was great!