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So, our time in Sydney has now been and gone!! We've spent over half our time in Australia in Sydney, so we have had chance to experience all that the city has to offer, bar the Sydney Bridge climb... We saw all the suburbs of Sydney, went to most of the beaches, know the CBD 'like the back of my hand' and have started thinking of Sydney as home!!
Both Luke & I have been working constantly over the past few months, Monday to Friday, earning lots of money to keep our travelling afloat, but on weekends we've made the most of the long summertime!
I think the maximum heat we experienced was 47 degrees C, and had a 2 week long heat-wave of this temperature, it rarely dipped below 42 degrees, so for a good couple of weeks we hardly slept, and were constantly exhausted, and I had accepted that it was too hot NOT to sweat, so didn't fight it any longer!! Yes pretty disgusting but the whole city was in the same predicament so I didn't stand out!!
Soon the temperatures cooled down and its mainly been in the 30's every day since November until March, so its been nice, Luke hasn't been too happy with the heat, when the heat struck, he was constantly drained, so we had a good few weeks of lazy weekends...
Anyway we watched some more outdoor movies, this is so much fun, and such an experience, its in Centennial Park, and it overlooks the city, and is surrounded by trees, so whilst your laying there, you watch the sun set over the city, then the bats all come out and fly over your head into the trees. Its brilliant!! So this has been a highlight, being able to go to the outdoor movies, as and when we wanted.
Sydney has brought me back together with some old friends, Firstly, there is Alex & Fiona, theyre both friends from the USA summer camp I worked on, theyre now married and living in Bondi, so its been lovely catching up and hanging out, Also I met up with another lady from Camp, Petrina, she has always lived in Sydney, and since camp she is married with 2 kids. And then Lauren, I used to go to Art College with Lauren, and we haven't seen one another since college, 7 years ago!! So has been awesome seeing friendly faces at the other side of the world. But we have made some amazing friends and hope we all see each other again. Living in our share house, we have met some awesome friends / housemates, as well as some interesting and some downright ignorant and selfish!!
So our last weekend in Sydney, we finished working on the Friday, and had a house-party to celebrate leaving Sydney. Invited all our friends and had a loooong night partying for one last time!! L. Then on the Monday, the day we left Sydney, we spent our final hours visiting our good friend Zhi at his office (Google) he took us on a tour of the office, and invited us for lunch. Im not able to talk much about this experience due to privacy laws, but - IT IS THE MOST AMAZING OFFICE IN THE WORLD! If you get the chance to work at google - DO IT!!! Ha!! So we had an amazing lunch with Zhi, and dessert and icecreams! Yummy! Then finally for Dinner we had BBQ Lamb Chops with Harry and Owen, our friends were leaving in the sharehouse... :( .
We left the house, and walked down to the train station with ALL our bags, this was painstaking and a nightmare, my handbag strap broke, so had to throw things into all our other bags, it was horrendous!! We made it to our bus terminal with no further disasters! Boarded the bus, and said farewell to Sydney. The bus drove over the Sydney Harbour bridge, and we saw the Opera House for one last time.
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