Yo-ho it's a drunken night for me..

20/01/2012

Day two of our amazing travels. Today we decided to explore the city at which we are currently residing, Sydney. As Scott has been here for sometime now he took on the role of tour guide and off we set into the city and towards the infamous harbour.  Our first port of call was China Town which is about a block down from where we’re staying. Thanks to it being Chinese New Year the streets were full of those preparing for the nights festivities, in traditional fashion bright colours and lights shone all around us.

The sky was blue and the sun torched our already somewhat sunburnt skin as we walked our way toward the harbour. The parks were full of kids splashing around in the water fountains and outdoor pools, leaving no room for us to have a much wanted dip. Damn school holidays. 

I’ve got to say, Sydney harbour is beautiful, and okay yes there is a distinctive fishy smell around the area but that’s expected so we’ll let it slide!  To the right stood the Sydney Harbour Bridge [with people trekking up the sides, clinging onto the handrails for dear life] then as you follow the quay around there are the ports for the cruise liners and larger ships. Gradually further round the harbour there are the ports for the smaller tourist excursion boats and finally to the far left the Opera House can be seen, all of which are framed by a vast amount of beautiful café’s, bars and restaurants.

Several obituary, touristy photos later Scott and I took a walk through the Royal Botanic Gardens to soak up more sun and stunning views. From this angle you could really get a great look back at Sydney CBD (Central Business District) to appreciate its incredible buildings.

After a much needed cold drink back in the city we went back to our room and got ready for the nights adventure. One of Scott’s mates managed to get us free tickets [with free open bar passes, wheeey!] onto an evening on a pirate boat, the only fully wooden made ship that sails the harbour. I think there were about 9 of us in total. It set off about 20 minutes before sunset so you could see some amazing sunset views of Sydney, accompanied by a delicious seafood bbq! [Note to Katherine: you need to teach Scott how to eat a prawn. He seemed to think you just needed to rip off the head and eat all the rest, including the shell and ‘poop-shoot’… Tasty!]

 Once dusk set in the boat lit up with tiny fairy lights and quiet chat from all others on-board and the engine turned off to allow us to slowly arrive back to our destination using just a sail and the wind. I guess there was quite a romantic feel to the cruise but obviously we were more interested in getting some awesome night-times shots of the city and abusing our open-bar passes for all they were worth! At one point we were all laughing at some girl who was on the phone near us, and the only snippet of conversation we heard was her shouting ‘No, you’re not taking my job bitch’ in a typical Australian accent. One of those ‘you had to be there’ moments.

The trip lasted for around 2.5 hours and not so shockingly we arrived back at the port somewhat intoxicated and ready to carry on the night as we had started. So into the city we walked [or stumbled] and made our way to a few bars where we drank some more and danced our way back to bed. Amazing night!

Some of us got more drunk than others….

The next day we awoke early as we both tend to do, no matter how hard we try to sleep in and spent the day chilling out in our room as the weather had taken a slight turn for the worse. In the evening we went around to a mate’s house and had a dvd / pizza night. Good, simple fun!

Today we are off to the beach so fingers crossed for sunny skies and a lack of shark attacks!!