Sydney : Part 3

We woke up early Monday morning to take the ferry back into downtown Sydney. 

[ Taking the ferry is officially the best mode of public transportation ]

Unfortunately we only had a few hours to walk around before we had to head back to Canberra.

Sydney is one of the most Beautiful, cultured, clean and amazing cities I've ever been to. 

Here are a few pictures from our day

Beautiful purple trees all over Sydney

Fish & Chips on the water

Sydney : Part 2

After dinner we took the ferry into downtown Sydney with Daniel and a few of his friends to See a hip hop concert at the Sydney opera house! 

It was a very surreal moment taking the ferry into the city, at sunset to go to the famous Sydney opera house! While on the ferry We drove right past the Sydney opera house and the harbor bridge. 

It was absolutely breathtaking. 

It is hard to believe that people take this ferry into the city for work everyday!
After the concert we all went outside and had a drink at the opera house bar which is right on the water overlooking the harbor bridge

 It was an unreal view of the opera house/ water/ harbor bridge.

Sydney : Part 1

Jeremy had another off day on sunday so we decided to go to Sydney! 

We have very special friends who live in Sydney and we are so lucky that we were able to see them and spend the night at their house! The Finks met my parents when they moved to Philadelphia in in 1986. 

 As Tamar told the story: She and her husband had just moved to Philadelphia with their 3 year old son Daniel. They knew no one and enrolled Daniel in pre school at the JCC- where I also happened to be attending pre school. On the first day of school my mom came over and introduced herself and invited them over for the Jewish holidays when she found out they had no family in Philadelphia ( my mom is the sweetest person in the world)
Daniel and I became good friends went to school together until they moved back to Australia 3 years later.

As soon as we arrived in Sydney Tamar took us on a " Randee tour" of Bondi beach, which is the town they live in.  If you don't know my mom a " Randee tour" is when you see lots of sights in a city in a short amount of time and do lots... of ... walking!! 

LOTS!  

Yes, that is a swimming pool ON the ocean. Tamar took swimming lessons there as a child.