Once we had all eaten breakfast and ready, Beryl started the drive towards the Three Sister's lookout near Katoomba. On the way I noticed on the left hand side there was a pathway for cyclists next to the motorway which I thought was good. Once there, I asked if there was a story behind why it was called the three sisters, and an Englishman overheard. According to his friend, a father wanted to protect his daughters from a beast and so turned them into stone and himself into a bird, but he lost his magic bone when he flew away from the beast, and so couldn't turn them back into their former selves. I just searched on Google, and this is one correct story, but there is also another alternative story about three sisters wanting to marry three brothers from another tribe (which was forbidden), so the brothers tried to capture them which started a battle. A witchdoctor turned the sisters into stone to protect them, but he got killed in the battle so couldn't reverse the spell.

Next stop was back in Katoomba for lunch, as 'The Paragon Cafe' was a favourite of Beryl and Ian's. I'm really glad I went with them on their advice, as it was a really interesting place to look around- it was an art deco cafe and so in the back they had an old fashioned banqueting hall, and they had been making chocolates for years. I had been thinking I would pay for lunch to thank Ian and Beryl for taking me, but they very kindly insisted on paying, and also brought the chocolates I felt obliged to try since they seemed to be very exquisite and also tried to buy with my money.

Then we went to Scenic World- basically a park in the Blue Mountains where you can ride on the steepest railway in the world (I think it was 54° and had been around for a long time), a cableway, and a skyway (basically a cableway, but it had a glass floor so you can look down). First we went down on the railway, which took you down quite a narrow gap in the mountains, and which, because it was so steep, you nearly fell downwards off your seat. It was a 10 minute boardwalk from the railway to the cableway, which had exhibits on mining and plaques telling you about the trees and wildlife.

After the cableway ride back up, we then had to queue for a while to get on the Skyway, which took us over the valley. From it you could see a waterfall, so we went for a walk to have a look at it, although the steps looked too steep for Beryl and Ian, and so I went down on my own. It wasn't the waterfall we had seen from the skyway carriage, but it was a very pretty cascade, had there not been so many tourists on it.

When we had taken a return skyway trip, Beryl thought we should take another railway trip down and back up so that we got more out of our money, since you couldn't pay for just one trip; you had to get an unlimited pass for all three. I enjoyed the last ride the best, as I had more experience and so knew that you could hold yourself up by putting your knees on the rest in front. Once we had visited the toilet and brought drinks, we drove back home, with plenty of time to spare before Ian's program started at 8.30.

We all watched 'Generation War'- the 8.30 TV program- although I felt it went on quite long. It was about 5 young Germans in the time of the World War 2.