Rain Rain Go Away

Today was rainy. We've been told by the locals that we will most likely have rain through Monday or Tuesday. We are still finding lots to do, but we are all anxiously awaiting a trip to the beach.

We started off early, as we are still adjusting to the time zone, and headed out The Rocks for some souvenir shopping. We all pulled out our umbrellas and browsed around the tents. Luckily my Dad packed three umbrellas he found in our garage, unfortunately what he didn't realize was that our family owned an umbrella with an American flag on it :) Once he pulled off the navy blue sleeve we immediately noticed it was no ordinary umbrella and laughed out loud when we saw the bald eagle, American flag, and the quote "Freedom is not Fee" pasted on top. Since the alternative was to get soaking wet, we used it anyway, which means we failed miserably to blend in.

After The Rocks we had a few hours to kill before we needed to start getting ready for the opera. We decided to walk about 2.5 miles to the Power House museum. They had exhibits about space, the 80's, all things nuclear, transportation through the years, industrial design, and they even had an exhibit about people who suffer from vision conditions. We decided to take a cab back since we were all exhausted at this point, and head to a late lunch at a bar around the corner from our hotel.

And then it was time to head to the Opera house which is about a mile from our hotel. The Opera house is beautiful, the opera itself was very neat, but I wouldn't say I'm dying to see another one any time soon. Their voices were incredible, the sets were extremely extravagant, and the orchestra was amazing, but to me, the plot was lacking a bit. According to the subtitles, they just kept repeating the same phrases which made a couple of the arias a little long. By the time it was all over, we crashed pretty hard.

For those of you who have a copy of our itinerary, we rescheduled our Bridge Climb due to the rain. We're going to do it next Sunday instead. Our plan for Sunday is church, maybe an Aquarium or Australian Wildlife exhibition and a late night night showing of Avatar at the IMAX. G'Day for now.