Monday: hangover day - we decided to stay at the Rydges Parramatta for one more night as we were unable to function (pack bags and check out in any decent time). I spent a couple of hours at Westfields Mall. We went to a mediterranean restaurant on Church street. Great food, early night.
Tuesday: took the train to Katoomba. Jorg was on the same train but we didn't connect until we got off at the other end. We checked into a triple at the backpacker's hostel and headed for Echo Point. Climbed down to the Three Sisters then hiked the trail approx 4 hours. Bought some New Zealand beer at the bottle shop ($22. for 6 bottles!) and hung out in the hostel lounge. Headed out around 9:50. picked up Thai take-away since the pubs weren't serving food anymore. Took our food to the Carrington Hotel and ordered beer. Played the longest game of pool ever, then played some local guys in doubles, then the longest game of 501 at the dart boards. Cool though since it was FREE VIDEO JUKEBOX night! endless tunes from every decade but mostly the eighties. Marisha was excited taht Eagle Rock was on the jukebox. HAHAHA. Hard-core eighties fashion. It was very funny!
Wednesday: got up early and packed our bags, stored them at the hostel after checking out and headed back to Echo Point to do the other trail. Starts at the Three Sisters as well but we turned left at the bottom instead of right. Beautiful. After we finished the trail we collected our bags adn while I watched them at the train station, the girls went and picked up sandwiches for the 2 hour ride back to Sydney. Surprise! Jorg met us on the platform at Central Station. He was also checked in at the Legend Has it....Westend. They headed out to the opera (Puccini - love triptych) and I settled for noodle soup and an early night.
Thursday - met up with Gavin. Ran into Suzanne, her sister and some other guy from the senior team. Decided we would meet them for dinner and drinks at the Orient Hotel in the evening. For some reason I'm drawing a blank on what we did this day. Shopping around the Rocks for sure...oh yeah and we happened to pass by the Canadian Consulate so we dropped in and said hello. They had just taken down the item about the world championships but said they would send a press release about our results to Ottawa - took teams names and quotes from coach gavin. We carried onto the Rocks after that, then hit the Lowenbrau bar with our
free beer coupons! Ran into two guy paddlers from the sr team. headed back to the hostel to shower and change then met the crowd back at the Orient. Ate dinner and met some guys who said they could hook us up with tickets for the league final on Sunday. Spent the rest of the night with Stefan from Switzerland. We ended up at a great club called The Establishment.
Friday: Another hangover day. Spent the day and evening at Manly beach. Met Gavin and Suzanne for dinner at a rooftop bar overlooking the ocean. Sipped beer while watching surfers ride waves as the sun set. Ferry ride home presented a great view of Sydney skyline.
Saturday: Paddington Market! shopping, shopping, shopping, Art Gallery of New South Wales, shopping in the gallery gift shop. We'll be meeting up with David and Geoff (the guys with the tickets). I have a bad cold so don't know how late I'll be out. Tomorrow's our last night in Sydney (as Gavin put it in reference to our spending, "Thank God honolulu is free"!)
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