Trip to Sydney

Tuesday morning we got ready (of course I took too long and we missed the first two trains) and took the train to Sydney.  It took a little over an hour.  We looked out at the coastline from the train and walked out of the subway exchange into a city not unlike Seattle or Portland.  The area of the city is called “the Business District”, and our Travelodge hotel is centrally located in the heart of the city. 

We ate a late lunch at a little restaurant called Opia in the Rocks region.  Great service and tasty food and coffee.  We walked along the shops, boutiques and art galleries for a few hours.  From the street outside of the Circular Quay (pronounced “key”) we could see both the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.  Docked in the Quay was the Queen Mary 2, which we discovered later, is the largest ship to ever have docked there.  It was longer than the dock and so deep that it was only centimeters from the bottom!  It was only docked for two nights.

We came back to our room to freshen up and change clothes, then went back out to find a place for dinner.  Correy got so hungry that we stopped at a convenience store to buy him some beef jerky to hold him over.  We went to Brooklyn for dinner.  Correy had a $10 steak and I had grilled chicken with spicy chipotle sauce and guacamole.  Delicious!  Then, I poured my glass of wine onto my dress.  Thankfully, the glass wasn’t full, but we left shortly after so we could rinse out my clothes.  Correy fell asleep at about 8:45pm.