Bright Lights, Big City of Sydney

On the road again... Since I just realized that we have to be back in the British Virgin Islands in 6 weeks, my opportunities for going down south are slamming shut quickly! We discussed options today, do we fly, take the RV, just take the car...just don't go or what? You know how I decide things quickly? Well, I am cleaning the RV and putting away all the crap we have scattered around from the last 3 months of not moving at all. Funny that, I had an old guy stop and want to look at our RV today as he liked the size. He mentioned that it looked like we were living in it...Very astute as there is so much crap laying around that would fly all over the place and decapitate us!!

The plan: Take the RV and car, head straight down to San Diego, spend a week or so there. Take a look around to see if we see potential RV spots that we may want to look into for buying. Then probably go by Palm Springs and see my great aunt for a few days, head up to Las Vegas, take in some shows, go to Texas de Brazil (FOOD!), let Bazza visit the Hoover Dam, and go metal detecting, and then come back up here for a week or two before flying back to the islands.

I will have to see if I have any pajamas or swim suits that fit before going back to the boat! I have a picture of me hitting the water trying to go diving and just floating on my back with all my appendages up in the air and not a hope in hell I will be able to put on enough lead to actually get under the water!

Anyways, although we may be going on a road trip the blog is back in Australia still, and I need to get that finished up! I don't like being a week behind.

We went out for a tour of the Sydney the next morning. This apparently here is the oldest pub in Australia. And it had a cellar under it where they dropped drunk men to send them out on the whaling ships...


The obligatory picture of us with the Opera House in the background...and a couple other assorted city shots. It is a very pretty city.






Sydney Harbour is very protected. This is the only entrance into the large harbour area. They tell me the water is fairly clean in here, except we had had lots of rain the last couple days so it was pretty dark and brown. Apparently more sharks in here too! That was enough for me!!




I like the couple cuddling on the ferry in front of the opera house!


We met up with a friend of ours for lunch that day. Laila, used to run the yacht Fantasy Island in the BVI for a couple years and then went sailing around the world in high and low altitudes on a monohull. SHe is Danish and a heck of a sailor! I have put pictures of her before on the blog. She is working on a white boat that is docked in Sydney Harbour for the next few months and then I believe is going to PNG. She looks wonderful, thin and tanned. What can I say? She was always such a pretty girl!


No, I am not trying to get a picture of your breasts here Laila, I was much more interested in the food on your plate!

We enjoyed catching up with her and she has now bought a place west of Sydney, although her heart might just be still in the Caribbean methinks!


We had arranged to meet mom and dad on the steps of the Opera House late afternoon. Here they are oblivious! Not everyone gets their picture taken sitting on the steps of the Opera House!


Mom could not get over the fact that we were going to see Man in BLack, a tribute to Johny Cash in the Sydney Opera HOuse. THe show was sold out, but we were there hours in advance at the box office hoping to get some turned in tickets, as we knew the parents would love it. We did manage to get wonderful seats too! Well, most of us. Bazza lost out but he did not appear to be too sad about going back to the hotel room! It was a very good show....

OUr joy was complete walking back to the hotel in the pouring rain as we found a Belgian Chocolate cafe. Which meant dessert for everyone. It was MUCH better then a starbucks or TIm Hortons! MIne had frangelico ice cream on it...Don't know why I have not thought of that on the boat, our ice cream maker could do something like that easy!



Bazza had no problems stuffing his little chipmunk cheeks...


And I think dad was wondering HOW he was going to eat it all....


Went back to our hotel room and enjoyed the night lights of the city. Time to pack up and find a plane again in the morning!