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| Lunch |
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| On the ferry |
So we woke up to rain again! The plan today was to go to Taronga Zoo, but the rain put us all off. Other suggestions were the aquarium and the new Austalian Wildlife Centre next to the aquarium. We have arranged to go to Australia Zoo with a friend of Matt's next week so we thought the aquarium would be a better option.
I have been there but I couldn't remember much. We got on the ferry to Circular Quay and then (as it was raining) another ferry to Darling Harbour. We seeked out lunch first and ended up in a Greek restaurant eating kebabs (Matt and Lindsey) and mussels (Stuart and I). Tom of course had both!
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| Talking to sharks |
We then headed to the Aquarium. At the onset it was absolutely mobbed - it took a while to get our pre-paid for tickets (it was way cheaper to buy them on-line than on the door) and then when we got through we could hardly get to any of the exhibits because of the crowds, but it suddenly eased and the rest was fine.
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| Coral Reef |
The aquarium was bigger and better than I remembered, with quite a few big tanks. The first one one had a Dugong in it, the second one had loads of sharks in it - not tiny, non-fierce sharks like you get in some aquariums but proper sharks with proper teeth. We spent ages in there - Tom was wearing his shark t-shirt and was hoping to scare the sharks away with it. He was a little disappointed that they didn't seem to notice it!
The third big tank was a coral reef tank which was also good - but by then we were all getting tired so didn't enjoy it as much as we could.
Once out of the aquarium we headed to a cafe for a drink and then headed out (in the rain) back to Circular Quay - zig zagging through the streets - Tom liked this as he got to press lots of traffic light switches - a very important job.
We got the ferry home and thought Tom would sleep again - but he decided playing games with Lindsey and Stuart would be more fun. He has bonded with them really nicely. It must be difficult for them - I would have found it very difficult being in their shoes - having a 4 year old in the house for a week when you don't know or aren't used to children, but they seem to have survived, and Tom obviously likes them both.
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| The mad 3 |
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| Dinner |
In fact it has gone so well that they offered to babysit tonight whilst we went out for dinner. Fab. We gave Tom his dinner and then headed out to the parade of restaurants and ended up at Manly Grill - a meaty Aussie restaurant. Matt had half a pig and half a chicken (eyes bigger than stomach as he couldn't finish it) and I had a pulled pork burger. However, we were both quite tired so had to call it a night at 9 and come home. We were in bed by 10!
We have been promised sunshine tomorrow...
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