Sydney

When I went to Sydney I saw the actual opera house and the Sydney harbour bridge. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I really thought that I was seeing pictures of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera house. It was amazing to see them both. We didn’t just see the bridge and take pictures, we also walked across the whole bridge and drove on it and through the tunnel. We climbed up so many step, I counted them at the time, but forget the number now. It was so high up. There was a pathway with a fence around it, which was right beside all the cars, going over the bridge. Some people were jogging, walking their dogs, others taking pictures. We went to the Opera House too. We had a good view of the Opera House and the Harbour from up there.

In Sydney we stayed with our old neighbours, in a house on Peacock Street. They have returned to Australia, after spending a year in Remuera. It was warm enough to swim in their pool on the first day. We went to the city on a boat with them, to see the Sydney Opera House and Bridge. One night all the kids put on a show for the adults. We did some cool moves. I also learnt the song that Jack Hawkins told me about. My sister and I can do a lot of it. It starts with “Okay students, today we are going to do a pop quiz”.
The first few nights we stayed in Manly. Manly is a place that people from New south wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria might know about. We stayed near the beach and there was two playgrounds. I like the second one better than the first because the first one had only a sea saw swing and something that you swing yourself around on. People in Manly don’t mind about the weather they just worry about surfing the waves. We met my mom’s cousin. He lives inAustralia, but is originally from Ireland.

When we drove past Sydney Airport, our road went into a tunnel. Up above the tunnel, was the runway for the planes. So when the plane was landing and taxiing into the airport, it was just above our car. It was quite freaky seeing planes landing just above our car.

The night I watched spelling bee there was heaps of lighting and thunder. It was really heavy. In Manly we saw whales when we went on a 10km walk around North head point. There were a few boats whale watching. We saw artillery gun points and command posts up on top of the hill at North Head. We saw a billabong there too….well a billabong is usually in the desert, but this wasn’t the desert, but it was a little water hole up on top of north head.