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| Sydney Opera House |
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| Queen Victoria Building from our hotel room |
Our first 3 nights in Australia will be spent in Sydney. It is a city of 5 million - and their biggest city. 20% of the people in the entire country live here. When they decided to name the country's capital - there was a dispute between Sydney and Melbourne. They compromised and built the city of Canberra half way between. In 3 days we will take the train to our apartment in that capital city.
One of the neatest experiences of long travel is jet lag. Your body take a time to adjust to the different time zone. For example - I am trying this in our hotel room at 7 AM - while we are listening to the radio broadcast Tallahassee and the FSU football game. They are playing the gam yesterday at 5 PM. After the game we will place our bets on the game back home - we should be winners.
Saturday night we shopped in downtown - the sun set at 6:18 pm - remember it is winter here. The weather yesterday went up to 61 degrees. So there are a lot of changes for us.
Our first stop - right across the street from our hotel is the Queen Victoria Building. I love the old QVB - a shopping mall of sorts - built in 1892 - when she was queen. It is 200 feet by 600 feet - and 6 stories high. It is a mix of high end - and medium range stores. Many of them I never heard of - some Lulu seeing for the first time. The hobby and toy store is really different. It has more model planes - trains - autos - than I ever saw.
After the QVB - we took the tram to the Opera House. No need to buy tickets or having money ready. You just place you credit card or iPhone on the reader - it approves you - and away you go. The $1 charge appeared on my credit card bill. Lulu used her Apple Watch.
At the harbor - we took pictures fo the famous Harbor Bridge and Opera House. It was around 7 PM - and the temperature was still 60 degrees. Not bad for a winter's day. I know it isn't the fashion season - the crowd was nice enough looking - but there were not a lot of raving beauties like in London - Paris - Miami Beach - or even Beijing. Of course - at 74 - I am not being mistaken for Brad Pitts - or even Bill Gates.
After being up for over 30 hours - it was to get back to the hotel - and get some rest.
Our hotel has a hospitality room - open all day - with free breakfast - snacks - soft drinks - etc. We are on the 41st floor - it is on the 36th floor. We just had a wonderful breakfast and now to fill our day.
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| The Green and the Gold - Aussie Football - Soccer - Rugby - Cricket |
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| Boomerangs |
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| The Harbor Bridge - you can walk up over the top. |
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| Our Hilton - we are on the 41st floor |
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| 2 trolley tracks - good crowd Saturday night shopping |
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| Model of the Opera House |
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| Yo-yos |
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| Subrau 2 cylinder car model |
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| British Spitfire - radio control plane |
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| Garnet and Gold Lego guy |
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| Model Bricks Brand - Titanic |
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| Lego Kangaroo |
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| Australia Flag - Southern Cross |
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| Ford Cortina - metal model |
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| Lego Rolling Stones |
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| Model Trains |
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| An elephant faithful - 100% |
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| Galleries in QVB |
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| Special clock in QVB |
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| Escalators added years later |
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| This was 4 urnials |
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| Beautiful old tile work |
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| 6 floors |
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| Entrance stained glass |
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| Lulu loves shopping |
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