Sydney

Soon our time would end. We’d leave Singapore the same way we came from metro to airport. Our flight was to Sydney. Our flight was on my favorite airplane the A380. I’m a little nerd about big airplanes. Have no idea why but I love this plane. It’s just massive. I’ve flown on it about 6 times and I’m always excited when I board this plane. I love how comfortable they always are and something about this monster even being able to get off the ground impresses me. I mean the wings literally flap when the thing takes off and the airport has to halt other planes from landing or taking off for 3 minutes to wait for its wake to clear...how cool is that?  See nerd. Our flight would land in Melbourne at midnight. Our next flight took off for Sydney 6 hours later, then we’d have 8 hours until we could check into our Airbnb. So basically we were going to be tired and have time to kill. I knew we’d do the airport hotel thing but I didn’t want to do it twice so we find a quiet spot in the Melbourne airport and curled up in the floor for a couple hours. After a couple hours of homelessness we moved to the gate for the short flight to Sydney. We then pulled our “no there’s only 4 of us” to get ONE room at the hotel airport.  The room was clean, quiet and only required one person, Poor Jackson, to sleep on the floor. 7 hours later we showered and went to our Sydney home. 

We had rented a 3 story home in an interesting part of town. It was close enough to walk to the amazing botanical gardens they have there. So the first night we wondered around taking in the opera house and gardens. The gardens   are beautiful and clean with interesting with beautiful plants and iconic views. 

We decide after a long time of no meat to take advantage of the ample meat options at the store and BBQ. 

The girls have been doing my makeup every day. Not sure how that started but they are apparently better at it than me. They also suggested I was in need of other makeup and apparently brushes and something called a highlighter, whatever that is. So off we all went to explore Sydney. We ended up by no surprise, at a Sephora. I’m proud to say I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been there normally only taken with someone else looking to pretty me up.  So the girls were ecstatic to get some new stuff to try on my face. Sometimes they take turns, one doing one side, one the other, sometimes that works out, sometimes it requires some correction. But overall I think I look good. :). 

The next day we decide to go to the Sydney Zoo. Todd opted to explore on his own having as he put in “put in his zoo time”. So kids and I wondered to ferry terminal to catch a boat over to zoo. 

Getting to the zoo was half the fun. A ferry ride past the opera across the bay. Then a gondola the zips you to the top of a hill. There were amazing animals who all seemed excited to host us. A highlight being when we happened to turn around and see a tiger just hanging out above where we’d just walked. We’d somehow missed the “tiger crossing sign” but the funny thing was so had everyone else.  Seeming unaware they were being hunted from above. 

We enjoyed our time in Sydney.