Four days in Sydney

We left Brisbane for Sydney on the 27th of nov. In sydney we stayed at a hotel right on the beach in a beach community north east of the city called Manly. A famous surfing beach and beach scene. There was a pool on the roof of the hotel and Between that and the beach it was lots of fun. With kids this age it is important not to schedule too much city stuff so we went into the city as a family just once to see the sights.

The Sydney opera house is the most iconic building in a really dramatic skyline. The opera house is better than I imagined. To walk around it is to get a million different perspectives and angles. Look at my artist blog to see some creative photos:

Sydney sure is a nice city. We think that it is the perfect combination of london and San Francisco with the weather of LA (at least while we were there.

We took the ferry into the city one day and went to the part of the city called darling harbour. We went to the Sydney aquarium which was first rate. Pictures below.


jeris take:

We are in Sydney
for our last day and have really been having a great time. It is a
gorgeous city.
with ferries to take you all over the city. Really beautiful. The
opera house is so amazing. The kids have been keeping up the pace pretty well, getting in
to the swing of long walks and long waits. We have a pretty good
system down, lots of hang man and silly putty silliness, and the like.

John is trying to perfect an Australian accent, which is giving him a
pretty tough time. Its funny though. We are staying in a hotel on
Manly Beach, which is a pretty famous surfing place. We having been
having a great time playing every day. Grant has discovered how to
dive into the waves and he is crazy about it. They play and swim
until they are shivering. We were sitting on the beach the other
evening when we saw 4 yellow crests cockatoos flying and playing in
the trees above us. They look exactly like your birds, Tom and Pam,
except yellow in tint. The would land on a branch and then flip
upside down and spread their wings out. It was hilarious. We just
couldn't believe it. and now we see them quite a bit. It's pretty
neat.

Tomorrow we leave for Fremantle and I am very excited to see our digs
and get out of our suitcases. Our hotel room is a big mess of dirty
laundry and generalized chaos. I am excited to have a kitchen and a
bit of routine.