Chilled Week

Since the opera house visit, this week has been pretty chilled and relaxed. The weather hasn't been great with occasional showers on most days. We began the week by visiting the Botanical Gardens in the city, they were really pretty and definitely a lot nicer than the last ones we visited.......Bundaberg. It was nice enough weather and really good to wander around and see all the plants and wildlife, including a huge colony of flying foxes (fruit bats). They were all hanging upside down in the trees, chittering away, and they are HUGE! The park was a wonderful place for a picnic so we stopped and ate with a good view of the harbour, the bridge and the opera house. We also walked round to "Mrs Macquaries Point" a perfect place if you were here on new years eve as you get the classic view of the harbour, brilliant to watch the fireworks off the bridge! Just as we left here it started raining so we had to run between trees in between the showers, eventually we gave up and walked in the rain until it stopped. We then went and explored the city a little more.

On Wednesday the weather still wasn't great so we took ourselves off to a big shopping centre, Bondi Juction. To get there we went by train, unremarkable usually, but we went on a double-decker train, how novel! Bondi Junction was really nice, loads of shops and restaurants here making for a busy day before finishing it off by visiting the cinema to see Will Ferrells new film "Semi Pro".

On waking up yesterday morning we were very surprised to see it was really nice weather so we decided to make the most of it and headed to the beach down at Bondi. It was really nice weather, not too hot but definitely not cold!