After spending a day in the city of angels we arrived at the airport to depart following a full cuban garlic chicken meal. Delicious. Our full bellies entered the airport line with approximately an hour and a half to spare. Derek and my tickets, passports, and e-visas cleared immediately, but Ari had to purchase one there. After waiting about an hour at the desk Derek and I made a dash to the gate while Ari waited staring at the lady with the red phone in her hand. His business finally cleared and he made it about five minutes before we departed.
15 hours, I Love you man, The Express, Yes man, and an episode of Family Guy later we arrived in Sydney at 6 AM with the sun rising behind us. After waddling through customs we exited the airport with only trail mix as a customs casualty. We grabbed a taxi and rode to our hostel. As we left the airport there were giant billboards EVERYWHERE. They were extremely numerous so I just stopped looking after a little while.
We arrived in the CBD and started our crazy day one excursion. We heard there was a place down the street where we could store a few bags since we're going on a week vacation to the outback. We finally found the place only to find from a receptionist across the hall that many places are closed on Saturday due to the current economic downturn. So we walked in a circle, grabbed a free bus to take us 10 blocks down to another locations for bag storage only to find that it would cost us $350.... so we continued on. We found a storage center for much cheaper and quickly ran to the nearest bank before in closed. Then after an hour of signing up we finally finished all the important things we needed.
Sydney is a gorgeous large metropolitan center. I would describe it as an extremely clean, nice, New York. The Darling Harbour is magnificent and the multiple skylines are ravishing. There are plenty of East Asians here and due to my yellow feverish plague predicament caused by my Judaic upbringing I have been quite enthused by the aesthetically pleasing women.
We bounced around chinatown for a bit then headed down to The Rocks for a little wine tasting and market viewing and checked out The Sydney Opera House, which is an amazing monument. The outside of the building is composed entirely of tile and is amazing. We began to get weary even though it was only 5 in the PM so we grabbed some grub at a local pub with live Irish music. An English guy came up to me and commented on Gerrard's new $50 million, 3 year contract, but was sad to find I didn't think the contract was as outlandish as he did. He said "O you're American. You all do not have the same commentary that us English folk do." He was correct. We showered and crashed in our hostel at around 6:30-7 for to awake for 9 AM whale watching. Happy reading, I'll be updating soon.
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