Yesterday (Tuesday, July 31), mom and I got breakfast at a place called Swagman's Post Courtyard Cafe. Just a tiny place, but it was an amazing breakfast. I got french toast that came with an apple rhubarb sauce and whipped cream and mom got a swagman's breakfast that came with eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, hashbrowns, grilled onions, mushrooms, and tomatoes and we split each, taking the leftovers with us for later.
After breakfast, we walked through the city all the way down George Street to the Sydney Tower Eye, which is a tower 250 meters above the city. We were shown a brief 4D (like 3D, except they blow air and bubbles at you and make the ground shake occasionally) video of all the areas of Sydney, then boarded a super fast elevator to the top. We spent nearly an hour and a half examining ever angle of Sydney from high above the city. A couple of the best pics are below:
We did some souvenir showing and got several chai lattes before our high tea. We saw this statue, which is of Queen Victoria's dog, and I took several pictures of it because it reminded me of my dog-cousins (Kim, is it not "Dunc-esque"?)
Now, I was a little disappointed by my high tea experience. We got canned tuna sandwiches and tomato sandwiches and a bunch of desserts bought at a grocery store and placed on the stand. Mom's favorite thing was the grapes, if that tell you anything about the sandwiches or desserts.
So that left a bad taste in my mouth (literally and figuratively) but we had enough time to go by the hostel and rest a little while before our play, which was good since we were both tired. The play was good, called The Duchess of Malfi, and in the end, everyone ended up being killed except the guy who actually killed everyone (sorry to ruin the ending). One of the actors I thought I recognized and got home and googled him- he is in a car insurance ad over here, an ad that is played too frequently, which explains why he has been burned into my brain. All in all, a pretty good day.
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