Today it was time to bid adieu to Sydney and head off to Melbourne. Melbourne has been considered a more European city than Sydney due to the large number of Italians and others that emigrated here at the beginning of the 1900s. The flight was pretty full and full of amazing aromas, but was rather pleasant. One thing about Qantas though is that they have…
March 7, 2006I wanted to take one home, but there are rules against this…
March 7, 2006If yesterday was a sleep in day, today was the up at the butt crack of dawn day. We were down in the hotel lobby at 7am (which with three people sharing one bathroom meant early wake up) and met our tour leader Justin. He fit the role model of Bush tour guide – thick Australian accent combined with weathered features. No goofy Paul Hogan…
March 6, 2006Today was a sleep in day! We had to prepare to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and since we were all out late last night, we decided to sleep in. We managed to get out of the hotel by 1300 and head down to the bridge. To build up spirit, we stopped at the Krispy Kreme along the way to the BridgeClimb. Upon our arrival,…
March 5, 2006The coolest thing ever… I had to convince them that the Gorn was a necklace. I made him a lanyard and everything. They were supercool about it.
March 5, 2006Today we got a late start, but met up with Margaret who Mom has met at some of the conferences she plans. Margaret drove us around the Northern Suburbs of Sydney. Our first stop was Chowder Bay and Balmaral where we got the first of many great sights. At Balmaral, we met up with Margaret’s son who runs a kayak business. He was super nice…
March 4, 2006When we finally made it to our hotel, we were informed that since we were there early, the room was not available. So we left most of our bags and headed down to the historic Rocks section of Sydney. We had breakfast at the world-famous Pancakes on the Rocks, which serves a good breakfast! We then headed down to Circular Quay to take in some…
March 3, 2006Awoke pretty early for the beginning of another adventure. I am pretty sure it was due to the excitement of heading to one of my dream spots, but also just the general “Oh Crap” of not having packed. Mom and Gary had arrived the night before and I was due to meet up with them for breakfast, but I was not able to get a…
March 2, 2006The time has finally come. I hit (and actually smashed through) my disk quota on the Club Josh server. As a result, I have been having e-mail issues for a bit. So a quick call to my hosting provider and they determined that a simple reduction of 5MB would get me back in the good graces. After a quick run through of the directory sizes,…
February 24, 2006Thanks to my new pro account on Flickr, I have posted the long awaited Hong Kong 2005 and Japan October 2004 Non-Disney photos. I am still not 100% happy with Flickr since I had to try and use the Uploader program several times for it to take my photos. I also don’t like sending people to other sites, but I think I can work around…
February 16, 2006