Sydney

Our flight landed into Sydney at about 9am, and Amy's uncle, Rob,  

picked us up from the airport and took us back to his house where we  

would be staying for a few days. On the way back he took us to a  

viewpoint to see the opera house and Harbour bridge, and the view was  

absolutely amazing! After drawing us some maps and explaining the bus  

routes, Rob left for work and we went to explore the city for the  

afternoon! After a macdonalds for lunch we headed to the opera house  

for a few pictures, and explored the town centre. When we got back to  

the house that evening Rob and Vicki cooked us a lush BBQ and the  

kids, Zoe and Jade entertained us! 

 The next day, we took the bus to Taronga zoo, where we took the sky  

safari (a cable car over the zoo), saw kangaroos, koalas and lots of  

snakes! We also went to a spider talk, which was supposed to help Amy  

with her arachnaphobia, but might have just made it worse, especially  

when a huntsman spider, which looks just like a tarantula was handed  

round in a jar!

That evening, we went to Balmoral with Rob, Vicki and the kids, which  

is a lovely beach near their house, and we all had fish and chips as  

the sun set, and took the girls to play in a park overlooking the harbour!

The next day, we moved to a hostel near all the nightlife, and we  

spent the afternoon exploring the area, ending up in a posh bar  

overlooking the opera house, and bought a very expensive beer each!  

After that we decided we should start saving our money, so we bought  

our first box of goon for our night out... 10 dollars for a 4.5 litre  

box of wine (apparently made with fish eggs and milk)... Needless to  

say it was horrible, but as the night wore on it became more  

drinkable! We went to a bar in Kings Cross, luckily it was really near  

our hostel as we got refused entry as we were wearing thongs (flip  

flops) so we went back for a quick change into trainers and we were  

off! The nights events are pretty hazy due to the box of goon we drank  

but from what we remember it was a pretty good night! Luckily we  

weren't too hungover the next day, as we had our mammoth bus ride to  

Byron Bay!