Sydney II
It's been a while since I've been able to update, due to camera-linkage problems and lack of net access and such.
To recap a few of the things we saw and did in Sydney:
A giant stingray at the glass walkway in the Sydney Aquarium. This was probably the best part of the aquarium. There were large sharks swimming around in this area as well. Other than that, the rest of the place wasn't much different than the aquarium they had at Disney World. It was good, but I was kind of expecting an aquarium so good it would blow away any aquarium I had ever seen before.
Sydney has a lot of bizarre water monuments/art pieces and statues decorating it, including:
Spiraling water staircase whirlpool thingy. . .
. . .and sphere of water-spraying thingy-mo-bob.
A truly strange tree with tentacle-like roots at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
(You knew it was coming) The "sails" of the famous Sydney Opera House. We took an hour and a half coffee & cake yacht tour around the harbor. When we walked over to it on foot later, the opera house itself was swarming with Japanese tourists.
View of one of the harbors. There were a lot of boat cruises competing for tourist's money, including the red speed boat shown on the bottom right.
The "Chinese Garden Of Friendship."
Another picture of the garden.
And finally, to cap off our Sydney adventures..
The Soggy Mattress Tale
In our hostel in Sydney, on the second night, some guy woke us up at roughly 4 A.M. yelling about someone peeing in his bed. Allow me to recreate the audio: "He PISSED in my BED! NO- I WON'T BE QUIET!!" After 15 minutes of him shouting and his friends trying to calm him down, someone convinced the guy to go grab a beer and he left. Apparently one of his co-workers who was in the hostel dorm with him took a leak on his mattress or something, probably while drunk. Anyway, the next morning there was a mattress laying in the hallway and the hostel imposed a new noise curfew due to "recent complaints."
To recap a few of the things we saw and did in Sydney:
A giant stingray at the glass walkway in the Sydney Aquarium. This was probably the best part of the aquarium. There were large sharks swimming around in this area as well. Other than that, the rest of the place wasn't much different than the aquarium they had at Disney World. It was good, but I was kind of expecting an aquarium so good it would blow away any aquarium I had ever seen before.
Sydney has a lot of bizarre water monuments/art pieces and statues decorating it, including:
Spiraling water staircase whirlpool thingy. . .
. . .and sphere of water-spraying thingy-mo-bob.
A truly strange tree with tentacle-like roots at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
(You knew it was coming) The "sails" of the famous Sydney Opera House. We took an hour and a half coffee & cake yacht tour around the harbor. When we walked over to it on foot later, the opera house itself was swarming with Japanese tourists.
View of one of the harbors. There were a lot of boat cruises competing for tourist's money, including the red speed boat shown on the bottom right.
The "Chinese Garden Of Friendship."
Another picture of the garden.
And finally, to cap off our Sydney adventures..
The Soggy Mattress Tale
In our hostel in Sydney, on the second night, some guy woke us up at roughly 4 A.M. yelling about someone peeing in his bed. Allow me to recreate the audio: "He PISSED in my BED! NO- I WON'T BE QUIET!!" After 15 minutes of him shouting and his friends trying to calm him down, someone convinced the guy to go grab a beer and he left. Apparently one of his co-workers who was in the hostel dorm with him took a leak on his mattress or something, probably while drunk. Anyway, the next morning there was a mattress laying in the hallway and the hostel imposed a new noise curfew due to "recent complaints."
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