Sydney Virgins

Well, our first day has been full of quirks. Lindsey and I decided to meet at baggage claim since we were on different flights. This proved difficult as my unlocked Iphone cannot make out of country calls apparently. But fortunately the international terminal at Kingsford Smith airport is very small and we randomly ran into each other. Lindsey had apparently not had very good experiences with the Australians at this point and her favorite and most kind person was the vendor at the airport McDonalds who offered her a candy cane. Anyway, we grabbed a shuttle to take us to our hotel and realized this was the ride of a lifetime. He was looking at what appeared to be a Australian Thomas Brothers which was scary clue number one. He kept talking in a foreign language that I couldn't identify. Not that we are that traveled but you think we could figure out what language he was speaking. Scary clue number three was that he was driving very fast and taking chances at every move with 12 people packed into what appeared to be a Honda Civic. I rode in the front, vW owes me, and Lindsey rode on the "jump seat". We somehow made it to our hotel and checked in where we learned it was the day the public observes the national holiday of Boxing Day. Soo......in the words of our hotel staff, "nothing is going to be open today". Bummer.

We decided to walk around, even though it was mildly raining, and I will go so far as to say cold. We walked down to Darling Harbor and then back up to what we believe to be the Times Square of Australia. (It is exactly like Times Square in New York but with lots of Asians). We ate a little bit and grabbed some beers. On our way back to the hotel we stopped by a local drugstore to grab some waters and found the most amazing candy: Violet Crumble, Chomp, a Milo and a Bounty. We grabbed the Violent Crumble hoping it to be actually violet. It turned out to be honeycomb covered with milk chocolate - "It's the way it shatters that matters". We have yet to open the other Australian candy but we will keep you posted.



Now we are off to get dinner and drinks in the area known as the Rocks. Pictures to come tomorrow!




Australian Candy!