Last day in Sydney

We started the day with the ferry to Manly which did in fact allow for some beautiful pictures

But the day was really made exciting by the surprise we had planned for our kids. For Leo and Adam…you guessed it – a Sydney Kings basketball game!

Leo’s perspective: I was super excited to go to the game. Outside Qudos Bank Arena there were basketball nets that you could play basketball at. Once we got inside we went to get a jersey..I chose the jersey ‘Andrew Bogut’ and it was a really cool style jersey. My favourite part of the game was the commentating because it was really funny, there was this one foul that they called a ‘wrestling foul’. In the end Sydney lost by 13 points, but if they had replayed the last 2 minutes of the 4th quarter they could have easily won. They were playing against the first place Perth Wildcats and Bryce Cotton and Terrico White carried them.

And for Stella and me….a “Cirque de Soleil – Aussie version” show at the Opera House

Stella’s perspective: At the show it was really fun and I ate popcorn and at the end of the show there was a cool trick, like a long thin thing with 2 wheels at each end and there was this guy that was outside of the wheel, and it was spinning and he was skipping rope, while it was spinning and he almost fell off. It was really intense. It was really crazy to be in the Opera House because it’s really kinda rare to be in the Opera House…I looooved it.

It was actually the first time on this trip that we have actually separated for more than an hour at a time..which is strange because it’s something we do almost every weekend in Toronto….but it’s really just been the 4 of us full time this whole trip. So Stella and I followed the show by dinner and ice cream (I have had this gelato EVERY day in Sydney…it’s Gelato Messina, and it’s incredible)