Day Four 6/11/11

Today was a travel day. Fun. We pretty much just woke up, flew to Sydeny, Australia, and bumbed around town all day. We walked pretty far, going from our hotel to Rocks. We got some nice views of the Opera House and Bridge. It was rainy and cold pretty much the whole day, but it was nice to get a free day to walk around and see the city. We even got the chance to go up to the Tower in Sydney to get a great view of the city! Then we went to an outdoor mall for lunch, and I had a yummy dish called veggie bibimbap! Then we got walk around a street market (in the pouring rain) for a while. Then we got lost (well, prehaps we weren't lost, but we took a wrong turn at least) on the way back to the hotel, in the cold, dark rain. Despite the pretty chill day, we were all so tired afterwards. We didn't do much, but it was still all new and fun.

Sydney is a surprisingly small city. I expected it to be much bigger than it actually is. It is very beautiful though. It's not too busy or packed, and there are lots of Asians (and of course other interesting people)! It's not to windy (like Chicago) and there are a lot of cute little stores and open areas, as well as a street market and an outdoor mall (both of which we saw today)! Sydney is very different from our city of Chicago. They both are on a water front (Sydney has the ocean, Chicago has the lake), but Chicago seems much bigger, more packed, windier, and more...bland. Sydney is just a prettier city to see [despite all the strip clubs (I've actually never seen a strip club in Chicago)]. It seems much warmer and a much nicer city compared to others in the U.S. Sydney is a very lovely and beautiful city in Australia, but it is nothing like what I expected it to be. There are a lot of cute shops, places to visit, and things to see. Sydney is a city that has many world famous icons that anyone can easily recognize. Chicago has some famous icons, but our icons are not nearly as popular and seem much more...frankly, boring. In general, Sydney is a very fun, beautiful city that is much more happy and appealing, but not nearly as busy or windy, as our (kind of) boring city of Chicago!

I love the plants here, seriously.

Poor Shelby thought this was a real turtle. Um, no.

This is obviously a sign for me to stay in Aussi.

I seriously love Korean food.

Creeping on Asian street performers is healthy every once in a while.

I was so excited to see the Opera House. It's not as white as it seems in on google...

I love this sign, but it doesn't change the fact that it took us an hour to get home tonight.