Hangin' on the Opera steps. |
Our "beautiful sunny day" became a cloudy, muggy one.... |
If you remember the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the inaugural Triathlon event finished on this very pathway. It's a gorgeous view. |
Sydney rocks, baby :) |
The next morning, we stocked up on breakfast groceries...mmm Vegemite... |
And took a ferry from Sydney Harbour to Manly Beach, to visit our friend Tim. |
Posin' on the ferry... |
Manly Beach is the coolest, hippest beach in Sydney. Not that the weather let us enjoy it. This is the chily, rainy day we saw. |
Two Manly men- we met Tim last year in Ecuador, on our boat trip through the Galapagos. |
Manly Beach on a "summer" day in Sydney. |
A lovely private cove on Manly Beach. |
So if the beach is rainy, what indoor activities are there in Sydney? Drinking. Lots of it. And we had the ENTIRE day to kill with Tim. |
9 hours later, full of beer and good cheer, we bade good-bye to Tim and headed back to Sydney. |
The next day was rainy too- and our 16th wedding anniversary. Since the Museum of New South Wales is free and dry, we stopped in there! |
The Museum of New South Wales' Masters collection was actually very impressive. |
...and not just a little disturbing in the "modernist" wing. |
Outside, schoolkids were being menaced by some scary Sydney-style birds. |
We'd bought a Groupon months ago for a booze cruise on the Harbour! What better way to celebrate 16 years of marriage? |
Me and the captain. We're besties. |
Cruisin' by the Harbour Bridge. |