Jelly Beans

Heeeeey, look it's the opera house. This place was always in sight whenever you went anywhere important in Sydney, probably because it's in the middle of this very large harbor that Sydney encircles, and it stands out very very much. But it's neat looking so that's alright. Notice the large amount of people crowded in at the bottom? There's a huge outdoor bar there called The Opera Bar and it looks like it's the place to be as it was very, very full of people, and they all seemed to be having a good time. But if that kind of thing isn't your style, there was more to see ahead. The thing about the opera house is that it isn't all one big building, it's like two or three. The first and smallest one is made up of the closest 3.. uhh... shell thinggies on the roof. If you look at the pic you can kinda see that it's separate from the rest, and there's actually plenty of room between them. Anyways, this smaller section is actually a super-classy restaurant where you can go to impress your big date or something. If you take a close look just above the second set of stairs in the background, you can see a bunch of black and white stuff up there, those are people in like fancy suits hanging around outside the place. I can't imagine how much it must cost to eat there, and I also can't imagine the food being really worth it. Oh well, I'm sure it's very classy.



And this is when nuclear war broke out Terminator 2 style. Actually no, it's just the sun exploding. Either way it looks kinda neat, and is another example of how my camera's sunset mode makes a normal looking scene very dramatic and fiery. It's kinda fun. Anyways, after around this time we started heading back to the hotel, but decided to get some food on the way. This was actually harder than you'd think, because despite being the holiday season in the downtown core of a world class tourist driven city... Most restaurants CLOSE at 8pm. We managed to score some fish and chips from this little stall place just before they closed up (we got the last 2 fishies, and free tartar sauce!) It was quite good, but breaded fish and chips just isn't the same, and nobody I tried down there was any good with the batter either. Oh well, a great time was still had by all and the fries were pretty good too.

More soon :)