I arrived in Sydney yesterday safe and sound after 15 hours of travel and losing Wednesday, March 23, 2011. I will never get it back. The flight was amazingly empty though and I got tostretch out over three seats and really get some good snooze time in before landing in Australia.
I met up with my college friend, Christine, just off the plane in baggage claim. After navigating customs, we headed to our hotel in The Rocks neighborhood of Sydney and hit the ground running. Okay, well, I'm still not exactly running, but walking fast, oh and in a zombie state.
The Rocks is situated on the water just near the famous bridge and the Sydney Opera House. We went out to lunch and for a walk around the area. Luckily, we have some more time in Sydney at the end of our trip because I have no idea what we really saw yesterday.
We crashed for an afternoon nap and forced ourselves up and out to look for some dinner and a possible nightlife scene. Dinner was found - a fabulous tapas place with yummy sangria. The nightlife was a bit harder. We kept hearing about how everyone has to work on Friday so no one goes out Thursday nights. This was a shocker to me because I've never lived in a city where this is the case. Just as well, we had a few cocktails, luckily for us on the the Aussie doctor who struck up our conversation. (The Australian dollar is killing us.) Then we tucked ourselves in for a rich night's sleep.
Today, we're off to Armidale to meet up with the bride-to-be for some quality girl chat time. It's been somewhere around four years since we've all been together. I hope we find something to talk about and don't just sit awkwardly staring at each other.
Then, the big event for the weekend is tomorrow's Hen Party - my first, should be a good one!
As they say here (all the time), "Cheers, no worries!"
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