Australia Day 1: City Tour

2009-12-22

It was 8:00am in my watch and I thought I woke up early. I forgot that we have a different time zone. It is 3hrs advance here in Australia compared to Philippine time. So it was already 11:00am when we woke up and ate our breakfast. For our fist day, we had bacon and eggs with banana cake.

bacon and eggs, banana cake

We went out to the city since it was the nearest place to go from where we are staying. It is burning hot under the sun while we were walking around the city since we went out at around 12:00nn. We rode a bus from our place then waited for the free city bus to take us to the Opera House and the Circular Quay and also got a view of the Harbor Bridge.

Opera house with Hannah and Mom

harbour bridge

After that we went to the malls. We all want to hide from the sun so we decided to visit the malls of Australia. We went to Queen Victoria Building (QVB) then to Myers and David Jones. All of these malls are high end malls like Rockwell and Greenbelt in Manila.

   

      Inside QVB, Swarovski Christmas Tree

We haven't taken our lunch yet because we had our breakfast at 11am. So basically we had brunch. When our stomach crumbled, we went to eat merienda in Segafredo. We had fries and milkshakes. Then we went to St. Mary's Cathedral after. It was the last stop we had for the day.

 

St. Mary's Cathedral by day

We went back to our house around 5:00pm because we cannot take the heat of the sun anymore. We will just be back to see the city lights at night after Tito Reg come home from the office. So we went home and took our dinner. Unfortunately, I realized that I lost my XWrap45 somewhere in the park going to the Cathedral. Ate Es told me that no one will get that and I will be able to retrieve it if I go back. Well, I didn't cry for that but I was a little bit disappointed. And so, I let go the feeling of regret.

pasta and spareribs for dinner

After dinner, we went  back to the city for the display of lights in some of the buildings like the Library, the Barracks, etc. Sorry I don't remember all the names of the buildings we saw. But here's how the Cathedral looks like by night. Then I remember what Ate Es told me that I can retrieve my XWrap, so I went to walk around the park near the Cathedral and true enough, I saw my XWrap lying on the grass near the fountain. That was really cool. :)

St. Mary's Cathedral by night with Mom, me, Hannah and Rein

We had a great first day in Australia. I also get to buy Maan's pabilin. I bought her that A'kin shampoo and conditioner in an organic store near the Woolworths Grocery store. I don't know how she knew about it since it was made and owned by Australia.

Anyways, for tomorrow? I think we're off to the beaches! (^_^)