First day beach. Swimming. Huge waves. Jellyfish. Not so pretty water. Sunrise Watson's Bay. Pretty clouds. Lots of color. Bondi like Austin, especially South Congress. Color of places - like San Francisco, but all in pastels instead of bright. Design of book covers very different. Waxy money. Grass allergy. Opera house, never knew that's what it was. Amazingly kind people. Our group dinner. More multi-cultural than anywhere I've been. Shorten everything- sick as, mozzies. Airport attendant very rude to Japanese women. Surprising. Walk through duty-free area, no walls or stores; just everywhere. Very very cute train station; quaint. Ultra-urban, almost scary train station by comparison. Played Johnny Cash while getting my Texas tattoo. Awesome.
Those were the notes I took to help me write about Australia on the blog. Figured it'd be nice to change things up a bit and give it to you raw. It was an amazing trip, but moreso because of the people I met than the location. Sydney was great and the beach is always a relaxing place for me, but I wasn't as impressed as I was anticipating overall. I guess I never know what I'll think about a place until I get there.
My view on the train from the cute and quaint train station. I thought the two-storied very colorful train was fun. When I had to switch at the main station, I got on a really dirty, graffiti-ed, and more typical urban train. I'm glad I had a bit of this first.
Us on the steps of the Opera House. It was a pretty cool place being right on the Harbor like that. I never knew that's what the building was, but it's always been the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Sydney.
My friend Andru and I on the beach my first day. The waves were so huge! It was great fun to be able to play in them so close to the beach. I've never been in any so big.
Our friend Howell got stung by a jellyfish. Ouch!!
Playing in the water.
This was part of our breakfast after we went to see the sunrise at Watson's Bay. The restaurant was called Pancakes on the Rocks. It was cute and had really fun and interesting dishes.
Some of my housemates in OZ. Since Andru lives with 5 other guys, I stayed with a group of his girlfriends. I am so glad that worked out as they were all so kind and welcoming. It was amazing to meet people from so many different places living under one roof. In my house, there was a girl from The States, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, and Scotland. Wow!
I got a tattoo of the Texas flag on the bottom of my foot, and I absolutely love it. It hurts so bad to walk right now though!
The Opera House and the Harbor.
Bondi Beach on a Monday morning. We went at a good time, because from what I'm told it can be wall-to-wall people out there. We had a bit of space.
Seagulls and surfers on Bondi. It was cool to actually see people surf; no where in the states have I really seen waves that were big enough to surf proper. Here, they were huge! People were surfing kayaks even. I thought that was pretty cool.
The sky after sunrise on Watson's Bay. We didn't really get to see much of the sunrise because it was so cloudy. It was really nice the way it colored the clouds though, so I didn't mind. I still can't believe I was able to wake up so early (4 am!!!) to do something like that. Although, those are the things life is about for me. It was absolutely worth it.
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