Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Sydney, Museum, Chinese Garden, and Skytower!

Sarah Beth and I headed back into Sydney to finish walking around and seeing more sights. It was a rainy day so we hopped on the monorail that circled the inner city and rode in circles until the rain stopped.


Since it was still kind of dreary outside, we decided to visit the Sydney Maritime Museum. This is us posing outside with the random statues of children.




This museum was actually really boring, so we just walked around and took silly pictures.




Sarah Beth decided to take a nap on one of the exhibits.



Finally we got out of that museum and we stumbled upon my favorite fountain!



Then we stopped along the beautiful Sydney Harbor for a photo shoot.




Sarah Beth had been wanting to go into the Chinese Gardens in Sydney, so we decided to go in them. This is us at the entrance.



The gardens looked like a scene right out of a Chinese book or movie. They were beautiful and we took tons and tons of pictures!




I was in bonsai tree heaven. There were so many of them.



We also stopped to buy a bag of fish food and fed the fish.



I liked this picture. You could see the big Ferris Wheel from the gardens and its reflection in the pond.







Finally, after quite a while of circling the small gardens, we bought our souvenirs and left. It was technically called the Chinese Garden of Friendship, so even though it sounds kind of corny, it was cool to go in it with one of my best friends!


Finally, the last day before Sarah Beth went home, we had lunch at the famous Sydney Sky Tower Restaurant. It was on top of a tall building and it revolved so you got a 360 degree view of the city.




Erika and Kristen, my housemates, went with us. It was $50 per person for the buffet, but with the view and all the good food it was worth it.





The restaurant was beautiful on top and it had tons of art and scenes to take pictures in front of.



You can see how high up we were!

After the lunch we went home and Sarah Beth packed up and left the next day. We had a great trip and, as always, had a lot of fun together.

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