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January 26, 2006
Australia Day
Today, we woke up, grabbed some breakfast, and then headed off to find Em's good friend Stacey who arrived in Sydney today. She will be working in the country for the next 6 months and then off to New Zealand where she will probably work another 6 months or so. We were lucky that it happened that we were in Sydney at the same time.
After an unsuccessful attempt to track her down at her hostel that included waking up one of girls who was sharing a room with her, we left her a message to meet us back at the hostel at 6:30 and we set off to explore some of the activities set up around the city. The whole world was out and about at Darling Harbor and we grabbed some lunch at one of the restaurants and just people watched for a bit. It is a truly international city with immigrants and visitors from all over. Everyone was decked out in the Australian flag.
Next we walked a bit around Sydney's downtown. At six thirty we met up with Stacey at her hotel and we all headed back towards the harbor and Circular Quoy where we grabbed some drinks at an open air bar that had a view of the stunning Sydney Opera House.
We tried to make it back to Darling Harbor for the fireworks, but the pubs were calling. An older couple that we stopped to ask about the fireworks told us we didn't miss much but gave us some great ideas about things to do for the rest of our time in Sydney. Tomorrow there is live symphony with an open-air showing of the movie Amadeus in honor of Mozart's birthday on the harbor and on Saturday night there is a free opera performance in the Royal Botanical Gardens.
With the fireworks already over we headed to a bar where we watched 20 year-old Marcos Bagdadis from Cyprus make his way to the finals of the Australian Open. It was a close match and he made a huge comeback from down 2 sets to none to win 3 sets to 2. I'm looking forward to seeing him play in the finals on Sunday.
Posted by Peter Mork at January 26, 2006 10:50 PM
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