All I can say is, Wow! So far, Australia has not disappointed!! Granted, we haven't relly done much just yet, jet-lag sure did catch up with us yesterday, lol. We spent our day, well it felt like much of the day, but really turned out not to be -- anyway, we spent our time yesterday just walking and getting our bearings. We are just a walk away from Darling Harbour, which is lovely. It doesn't take much for me, water, some boats, a beautiful blue sky and a gorgeous breeze...yep, all the ingredients necessary to make me on happy camper! The walk bridge over the Darling Harbor leads you to this lovely outdoor eatery/shopping center area. And when I say eatery, throw out ALL your ideas of mall type food. Holy cow...! YES, yes, yes! There were so many restaurants, so many different style cuisines, it was amazing. We ended up not eating at one of the wharf restaurants but instead went inside and ate at one of the many "food court" style places. It was incredible. Mark and Matt had Thai food, John and I had Greek food -- I tried to take a picture of these standing, rotating things of roasted meat, but they kept giving me a funny look, ha! However, my meal had some of that roasting meat in it and let me tell you - DELISH!
Our biggest odyssey thus far has been finding a store that sold clothing for the boys. We needed to get them jammies. We walked and walked and walked. We walked in to, I cannot begin to tell you how many stores, looking for just some pair of pants that would work for jammies. We finally found something at the Dollar Souvenoir shop in the World Market shopping center right around the corner of our hotel. The grocery store was also there among all the wonderful stores. And trust me, the shopping here is INSANE! I saw a jewelry store that had a whole window display of the loveliest opals ~~ I was drooling. And the clothing stores -- a woman's dream!
By the time we zipped in to the grocery store, I was feeling over the top tired. I had hit the wall and unfortunately, the boys felt the effects of that ... Mom was grumpy, lol! You know what I love about grocery shopping in other countries? I love seeing the different things that are done with foods that are familiar to me. Like cereals, for example. I got us some individual bowls of ready cereal and this morning I ate the Kellog's Just Right. It was very similar to a cereal I have had before, but here, they have added little bits, like dried apricots, currants, and rye puffs. DELISH! We also grabbed a fruit called Dragonfruit ~~ when opened up it looks like a dark red Kiwi. We didn't know what it was supposed to taste like and discovered it doesn't have much of a taste. I don't know if that is how it is supposed to taste or not, lol, but that is what we discovered.
On our adventure walk yesterday I noticed quite a few wine shops (thank you!) and thought aloud that maybe they sell there alcohol in separate locations, not like the majority of the States where you can get it all in one stop shopping. I do believe I was right in my thinking, as the liquour store was next door to the grocery store. We were pretty laden down with some essentials so I just grabbed a six pack of Fat Yak, it is a pale ale and quite delicious and a bottle of Shiraz/Cabernet. Funny thing, I noticed that all the wine was screw top. Even the most expensive wine in the place was a screw top. Good thing for us, as I don't travel with a wine opener. Probably should, lol, but I don't!
Matt went to bed last night at 5pm Aussie time, without eating dinner, he was so darn tired, he had gotten way past loopy and was working on crazy. The rest of us followed around 6:30. When we put John to bed, Matt woke up (not really) and started talking craziness. I had forgotten that when Matt gets really tired he talks in his sleep, lol. I think that we all pretty much fell asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillows! I woke up at 12am fully awake, lol. I managed to all back asleep, but woke up every 2 hours after until finally getting up at 6am. The boys were already up, having been awake since 4am. I am hoping that though every one got up early today, our bodies have re-set themselves and we will be on a more natural rythmn -- I hope!
Everyone is waiting for me to get off the computer and get ready to go....wait, maybe not, Mark just dropped down to the ground and is doing push-ups! Dear dog!!!
We are headed to the Taronga Zoo by way of the ferry and seeing the Chinese Gardens along the way today. Well, that is the plan so far. Can't wait to get under way :-)
Talk to ya'll later...I will try to post some pictures as well!
Love,
Kells
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