Yesterday we took the ferry out to Paramatta (a city that has become a suburb of Sydney) where my childhood hairdresser's daughter Joanne is living. She took us out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of a drive around. The "mountains" are really just valleys and we didn't actually get out to the Three Sisters or anything particularly fascinating but it was still really fun. Joanne took us to this little Mexican restaurant for lunchand I had my first flan that I hear so much about in Spanish class. It was wonderful. After lunch Joanne had to run off to a meeting and the rest of us went to a market and bought the fattest, most delicious mango. (You taught me well to pick a good mango Mike). We took the ferry back to Circular Quay (a beautiful ride) and took a couple more ferries around the harbour before having supper at a neat Korean/Japanese place where they BBQ your food right at your table and I discovered a button on the table that calls you waiter to your table. (I decided I would push it to see what it does and 2 seconds later our waiter was at our table.) We then took the train back to our hotel to pack up and get ready to leave Sydney today. I'm really excited to get to Canberra today and see how "borrrrring" it really is. I won't be online now for a couple days. I'll post all my pics from the last couple days later.
2 comments:
That is soo funny about the button for your waiter thing, Antony and I just had a conversation about this like a month ago about how they should have a call button for waiters at restaurants, he's gonna be pissed when he finds out his idea was already invented. haha
you really will be busy for these next few days. i wonder if they're going to round up all you "foreigners" and take you for tours and give you free stuff, and otherwise help you settle in.I'm sure that would be nice. Especially free stuff... :)
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