Aussie Trip Day 7

We're flying to Sydney today! The plan was to spend the first night at Travel Lodge Hotel Sydney, then to crash Malcolm's place the next two nights for free lodging. The flight was pretty early at 9, which meant that we had to be up by 6 to catch the Sunbus to Avalon Airport.

wake up, wake up

We arrived in Sydney at about 11, dropped our bags in the room, took some random tourist pamphets, studied the map, and off we went! It's useful to have an army scout around, even if it's Kerk!

taking a train to the Sydney Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

and the Sydney Opera House

the Sydney Opera House

the view

from the opera house was great

The next destination was Darling Harbour, but because we were hungry, we decided to have lunch first.

Ky : Jiarming says that the food at King's Wharf's really good and cheap!
Foong : Let's go then!
Kerk : ......(stoning as usual)

And so, we took a really really long hike to King's Wharf for lunch.

Ky : This is it!
Foong : Fish and Chips, $30.
Ky : How about this?
Foong : Fish and Chips, $32.
Ky : This?
Foong : Grilled Chicken, $40.
Ky : Let's call Jiarming now to scold him.

We had decided to eat Subway for the 5039643896th time while in Australia when we came across this eatery called Genghis Khan, which was offering $15 dollar set lunches. After what we've seen, $15 seemed really cheap and we ate there. Nothing great, but it was alright.

Then it was onward to Darling Harbour!

Cockle Bay Wharf

the maritime museum

the harbour. its actually much nicer, but i dunno why i dun haf anymore pics of the harbour

The monorail in Sydney was $4.50 for a single trip. Which was why we didn't take it and ended up walking back to the hotel from Darling Harbour. Which was really really really far as well.

Our hotel was pretty good, quite accessible, and within walking distances to Chinatown as well as Market Street. And there was Fox Sports in our room, so we went to Chinatown for a quick takeaway order, rushed back to our room to catch the Asian Cup live.

Chinatown Sydney

back in the room watching the Asian Cup.

The only day the three of us were left to ourselves with no prior plans of what to do or where to go went down pretty well after all. =)