10:04am Sydney time
I'm waiting for the tour desk to open. I contemplated going out and walking around before but everything I want to see is so far away I wouldn't make it back by 10:30 (and I want to book things!). The Irish girls are doing the bridge climb today at 12 so I am going to see if I can get on that one or not. I also want to book a trip to the Blue Mountains. And a tour of the opera house. So that really only leaves me a small amount of time to walk around the city. I need to go to bondi beach as well.
I decided to use the time to catch up on my blog. I was only 2 days behind so it wasn't too bad. There are 6 beds in my dorm room. Aside from Nette, there were 2 Chinese girls who arrived. The bed moves every time the girl on the top moves but I don't even care because I like being on the bottom for once. There are also 2 girls from Scotland or Ireland or Britain who are strange. They don't really talk to anyone and they literally made a fort with their bunk bed. They used the blankets and towels they had to make curtains around the bottom bunk bed. Then, they both slept down there. Very strange. But whatever.
I really hope I can fit everything in for Sydney in the next 3 days and short morning!
12:17pm Sydney time
I went down to the travel desk at 10:30am and no one was there. I waited for a bit and still, no one. I saw a g adventures tour in the lobby though. Yea G adventures!
I finally decided after 10 minutes I was wasting precious time and had already wasted some of the morning. So, I went to the front desk. One of the girls, Tash, working there also works at the travel desk. She helped me with a plan for my next few days and things were good. I booked my tour for the Blue Mountains tomorrow. That means I have to be ready to leave at 7:40am. Then, the bridge climb at noon today (when the Irish girls were going) was full so I will probably do the bridge climb Monday. I still need to book that... I wanted to do a ferry ride at some point so I decided today I will go to the zoo. It was that or Manly but everyone has been recommending the zoo to me. Tash even said it had great views and that the animals have the best view of Sydney.
I bought a ticket that includes the ferry there and back and the zoo entrance. I realized later that I didn't even ask aloud student tickets. I am so bad about that. It usually saves a fair amount of money too. Oh well I guess. The zoo is $51.50 but includes a few other things there as well. There definitely isn't a student price for the Blue Mountain tour but there may be for the zoo. No idea and now I'm not gonna ask because I don't want to be annoyed at myself.
I got directions from Tash on how toget to the ferry and misunderstood them. I got to the right place but on the opposite side of the footbridge instead of the closer side. It's at Darling Harbor which is really only a 5 minute walk from the hostel. But I went to the other side. Which meant that I missed the ferry at 11:45. I'm now getting on the ferry for departure at 12:30. Yey zoo!
7:26pm Sydney time
Well, if I lost any weight I probably gained all of it back today. Earlier I had a Mars bar because I didn't think I would have time for lunch and that's all I had on me. Then I ended up having time for lunch and ate a veggie sandwich. Then I had a magnum because it looked tasty at the zoo. Now I just got a piece of carrot cake. I think I'm having a sweets craving... I haven't eaten too muh sweets before this. Crazy!
I think I'm going to try to go to the cinema tonight too. I've always wanted to go to a movie by myself but I won't do it at home and I'm not doing anything tonight so why not. I'm sure it will be ridiculously expensive though.
The zoo was pretty cool. At one point I wanted to scream though because there were so many people. The zoo wasn't really anything special but the views of the city were spectacular and the ferry ride in the harbor was so amazing. Sydney is a really nice city. The harbor is awesome. I can't figure out if I like this one or Singapore's more.
Actually, maybe I'll go to the cinema another night and try to catch the fireworks at the harbor by me (not with the opera house). I've been craving popcorn and since I'm eating a sandwich and carrot cake now I probably won't be hungry for popcorn. Plus, the fireworks will be nice anyway. Haven't done fireworks yet on this trip I don't think. It doesn't happen any other night either.
Next day
Well, apparently it didn't happen last night either. I got to the pier around 8pm and just sat on a bench on the footbridge. I sat there til 8:45pm. Nothing. It was getting chilly so I decided to leave and go back to the hostel.
Finding the cinema last night was a pain in the ass. It said it was on George street which is the street the hostel is on do I just walked in the direction. There was a parking garage, but no cinema. And then, I didn't see it around the corner. I had to ask 2 people. I finally ended up finding it around the corner and down another street parallel to George Street. There weren't any movies I wanted to see showing until 8:50pm and it was 7:10pm. So then I went to pie face for dinner. Which I already talked about.
Other than that I just showered and went to bed early pretty much. Blue Mountains tour tomorrow!
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