Sydney

We drove to the airport in Byron Bay (only 40 minutes) and unknowingly crossed time zones…arriving at the airport 3 hrs before our flight instead of 2. I was pretty annoyed until I was able to get us on an earlier flight that landed us in Sydney at 9am…meaning we get 3 full days there! The kids were great considering the early morning departure.

So we got to Sydney and immediately climbed the famous Harbour bridge (luckily, only steps from our airbnb). Sydney is beautiful as you can see…

Then in our infinite wisdom we decided to walk our kids all around town..in the blazing heat. We started at the Opera House (which Leo says: it was a great architectural building and I was very excited to see it because it’s one of the most famous buildings in the world…and I was impressed!)

Through a huge park containing the Botanical Gardens…

They were troopers…but they were DONE!

Adam found us a nice outdoor spot for dinner and while we sat calmly and ate the kids roamed around a makeshift play structure in a very ‘Lord of Flies’ kind of way..

Today I got up early and went for a run around the harbour bridge and opera house…kind of amazing to see it at 7am empty!

Then we went for breakfast at the famous Bill’s in Bondi Beach and did the infamous Bondi to Bronte beach walk…which was in fact spectacular.

We also went for dip in the Iceberg Bondi Pools (one of many pools that are salt-water and hug the ocean so that ocean waves crash over you as you do your laps!).

Tonight we ended up at a great Asian Fusion place (Ms. G’s) where Stella got to try out her DJ moves 🙂 (for like a second while the DJ humoured her).

Tomorrow we head off to Manly park…and then we surprised both kids with some exciting night activities for our last night in Sydney (that are just as much for us and for them…stay tuned!)