Has to be the wettest birthday I have ever had.
I took all my birthday cards with me to Sydney so it was lovely to open them. Heather had also brought me a present over from Kirsty which were some lovely earrings.
We went down to a street cafe near the apartments for breakfast and I had a "bowl" of coffee with a bacon roll.
We then had to face the weather and decided to get day passes for the monorail so we went all around once before getting off at the harbour to go to the Aquarium and the rain poured down.
The aquarium looks very small from the outside but is very big with some huge tanks inside and some very interesting fish and sharks.
After the aquarium we got on the monorail again and went to Paddy's Market. This is a huge old building which is full of market stalls on the ground floor selling everything you could imagine. Upstairs they have a food hall with so many noodle bars and sushi bars. Then there are two floors with lots of designer shops. We managed to find a small bar that made up sandwiches to your taste which was more than enough for lunch.
Heather did some souvenir shopping and then we braved the rain again and onto the monorail to head off down to the opera house. On our way walking through the centre we saw a poor young girl wrap her car around a street bollard. We could see what she was going to do but couldn't stop her and she had to make it worse to get out of it - the car was a bit of a mess!
It was very wet by the time we got to the opera house and after taking some photos we headed back and decided to catch a ferry from Circular Quay to Darling Harbour as our feet were killing us. Unfortunately, for Heather, it was bit rough and did not go directly to Darling Harbour but crossed to the other side of the harbour and made three other stops before we were able to get off.
She couldn't have felt too bad though as she managed to persuade us to buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts to have with a cup of tea when we got back!
We did one more round trip on the monorail to see the city by night before getting off at the harbour for dinner. The portions of food in Australia are very big and by this time we were feeling rather full so in the evening I just had a light meal of fish and Jon had duck and Heather had pasta again.
After a wet walk back to the flat we had coffee and an early night. All this walking is killing us.
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