In the beginning...

Yay - I made in to Australia! I figured that if I'm ever going to blog - this is probably the time to do it. So yeah - here I am - blogging.

I got here on Wednesday morning (Syndey time) after a flight from San Fran with Tyler. Being a Qantas imporant person, he got us free upgraded to "premium economy" which we figured would basically be like an exit row in coach. Nope. It was actually more like first class on a domestic flight so that was pretty exciting. We got our own little tvs, champagne while we were still on the runway, socks, big comfy blankets, pillows 3/4 of the normal size of pillows as opposed to the normal 1/4 size flight pillows, and eye covers for while we're sleeping. Plus we had a good bit of room! It was pretty exciting!

So then we landed around 6 am on Wednesday (yesterday), found Jill and Ruben's apt, and then started our exploring of Sydney! We hiked the 2 miles down to Central Quey (pronounced KEY). Walking through downtown was pretty neat - but it really felt like just about any city - except they drive on the other side of the road. We took a 30 minute ferry over from Pier 3 to the city of Manly. It was a little beach surfing type town. Jill had recommended a brewery called 4 Pines that we went to for lunch and then we did a bit of hiking around some of their nature preserves along cliffs and stuff like that. It was really pretty!

BTW - while I'm writing this - the Good Morning America type show of Australia is on and their interviewing a guy from Seattle about Men's Secrets on Dating... Random....

Anyways - back to yesterday - after exploring Manly for a few hours and seeing several very LARGE spiders along our path in webs (eek!) - we took the ferry back to Sydney. It was starting to get a bit chilly too - probably around 60 degrees and rainy. We did the walk back to Jill and Ruben's apt - wandering through some botanical gardens along the way. Ruben then met us for dinner and we went out for Thai food and a drink. It really felt like it could be back home. From the surface - there's really no difference... yet... We ended the night by dropping Tyler off at the airport and hanging out until Jill landed and then hanging out some more....

Today - I'm just getting ready to head out for my next adventure - Opera House? The Rocks neighborhood? The big bridge???