Babysitting

After the busy weekend we decided to take it easy for a couple of days, but that doesn't mean we didn't do anything. There hasn't been a single day where we've stayed in and done nothing whilst in Sydney!

On Monday we braved the rain (again) and headed for the "Powerhouse Museum" near Darling Harbour. This was a pretty good museum with lots of exhibitions including the Australian Design Awards and some good displays on Space travel. The main attraction, however, was "Diana: A Celebration", a massive exhibition currently touring the world. It was really good and showed lots of things from her life, including her ridiculously long wedding dress (25 feet seems slightly excessive!).

On Tuesday we wandered around 'The Rocks' for a little while again and managed to stumble across a restaurant that we've been looking for since we arrived. It's called Phillips Foote and it is a sort of pub come restaurant come butchers shop, they sell quality steak that you can then cook yourself on one of the massive grills. It looks like a really nice place so we'll be going there hopefully in our last week in Sydney. In the evening we went back to Darling Harbour and met up with Zeena and her friends to go to the Imax cinema to watch the worlds first 3D concert. We watched some of the U2 "Vertigo" tour and I realised that I didn't actually like U2 as much as I thought I did! I appreciated the idea and the technology though, the 3D side of it was great but the music just wasn't really my cup of tea. Luckily, Megan and everyone else really enjoyed it! When we got home we were picked up by Fahmiya as we were going to be looking after Shari and Aaliyah for 2 days.

The girls were really good for us and we didn't have any screaming fits and not too many tantrums (only one actually, about ice-cream . . . . . . understandable really!). On Thursday as a special treat we took Shari to Sydney Aquarium which she really enjoyed. It was an excellent aquarium with great displays of all sorts of marine life. She loved the seals, sharks and obviously the clownfish, she spent most of the time saying: "wanna see nemo, wanna see nemo, wanna see nemo". Luckily there was a big display, if they didn't have any I don't know what we would have done! We ended the day by taking Shari on a couple of ferry trips to get back to Zeena where Fahmiya met us.

Hard work but fun looking after them and that was only 2 days!