escape to Sydney

Two days off and to make sure to have them off, I decided to escape the Blue Mountains and go back to the city. Anne had found a room which needed inspection and I needed to get out of my cowgirl clothes and do some serious shopping. Sobered up I took the train towards civilization. Since the weather was not the best I went to the Australian Museum, the Natural History Museum in Sydney. I had heard about it and usually this kind of museum is not only educational, but also great fun. Well, this wasn’t soooo much, but they had some funny stuffed creatures in teh dinosaur section. At least I got to see (and photograph) some of the animals I only hear around the farm at night.






The section about spiders and other scary (and venomous!!) creatures living amongst us freaked me out to be honest. Most of them had I seen around the house. They had some funny looking dinosaurs and extinct species, and I was happy to find out that Dinosaurs had bigger feet than mine. Another more shocking than informative exhibition was about skeletons.



Later in the afternoon I went over to Mosman where Anne lives and works in a café. She had finished work and together with Anna, a co worker from South Africa, we went after saying Hi to her roommates straight on to have dinner in the early afternoon. The meals in the Pub were rich (yummy gambas!), the wine was cool and we were happy celebrating Annes day off the day after. After three bottles in two, we somehow managed to get back home and went to bed immediately.


Fresh and sober we woke up quite early today morning and went down to Manly to have breakfast by the beach. After a few hours of successful shopping, we spread our towels over the bright white sand and watched the surfers, and eventually got lulled into sleep by the waves (our toe tips told us it was still way too cold to do a surf course). Another coffee in the afternoon and the paper with the detailed analysis of the American election prepared me for my 2 ½ hrs train trip back into the Blue Mountains.