4.18.2007

I met a Tasmanian Devil... Day 63

This morning, I woke up with a monstrous bloody nose, which I ignored and fell back asleep. Bad idea. I woke up finally at around 7am with blood on my face, hands and pillow. Good thing it’s not my pillow… Otherwise, today was a great day to explore Sydney, the weather was a little cool and yet, it was sunny. I started off the day by talking to my family, which was good, since it’s been a good week and a half. I called mom, dad & bean, like always. After all of that, I walked down to a cafĂ© and got a croissant for breakfast, then continued down Pitt Street, all the way to Sydney Harbor. I want to live near Sydney Harbor. But before we delve into that, I found two great streets, Underwood (If you didn’t know that was my last name…) & Alfred (I live on Alfred St. at home). Now that I just gave way too much information for any stalker to use, I’ll continue. I went to the part of the harbor called Circle Quay (pronounced: key) and I just happened upon a little stand selling tickets for a harbor cruise… and it included admission to the Taronga Zoo. Even though I hate zoos, I got it anyways. It was a good price too. The zoo was really good, minus the fact that I couldn’t find any kangaroos. The harbor cruise was utterly amazing. I did part of it before the zoo, then hopped back on after. I decided to get off at Darling Harbor to walk around for a little bit. It was such a cool little place. Too add to the cool factor, I looked down into the water and saw not only some angel fish (I think) but a few jellyfish as well. I sat down near the harbor and wrote for a little bit while I was waiting for the ferryboat to pick me up again. I am officially a huge fan of harbor cruises now; I got some pretty good (and pretty bad, to be fair) photos of the Sydney Opera House. I’m going to sound like a real dork here, but you know how you have always wanted to see something up close, then it happens… I can’t really describe that feeling, but I was elated to say the least. I’ve had a little crush on the Opera House since the Olympics in 2000. I’ll attribute it to my super interest in architecture. Anyways, I am in love with Sydney, Australia and I’ve not seen anything yet.

Oh, and Tasmanian Devil's are not nearly as scary looking as I would have imagined them to be. Anyways, look really close at the very blue photo and you'll see a jellyfish in the middle.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Sammy,
You're looking really good. Traveling agrees with you.

Love ya,

Bean

Anonymous said...

Did you know the Sydney Opera House might be one of the new 7 wonders of the world? Pretty sweet... unless it got kicked off the list already.

Anonymous said...

you shall call him squishy and he shall be yours and he shall be your squishy. hahaha a lil finding nemo action in there for you...

Anonymous said...

Yo mi dahhhhlink...
thank you for posting the line "Now that I just gave way too much information for any stalker to use"...so I don't have to get all broken record-like on you. That must've been amazing. You DO have a little crush on the opera house. No inappropriate touching if you get to stand next to it.

Lurve.

The First Trip said...

I thought I posted to this but I guess not!
Beautiful pics and I'm glad you're having fun!
Be safe! Much love!
-Michelle