We spent a lot of time just walking around the city.  It was cool to see things like the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in person.

As you can see from the pictures, the weather generally worked in our favour.  The last day we got caught in a massive downpour and hid in the shelter of a public restroom until it passed.  I’m not gonna lie, it was pretty romantic…

I couldn’t believe how warm it still was.  Winter in Sydney is like Summer in Wellington or even Vancouver.  I could totally live there!

There were a couple events on while we were there.  Darling Harbour was celebrating 21 years, so they had a jetski fireworks show.  Exactly how it sounds, 4 guys rode around on jetskis while fireworks exploded from the back, plus more from a platform.  Matt took these sweet photos:

Then there was the Vivid art show.  Every night, music played and buildings around Circular Quay were lit up with lights and projected pictures, including the Opera House.  Matt took these as well (he rocks the night shooting):

This is one from our hotel room:

I like how most of the beaches had these side pools cause there’s no way I’d get into Aussie waters (which was still 20C)! Matt and I thought about throwing steaks into the ocean to start a shark feeding frenzy, but better judgement won out.
This is Bondi:

Palm Beach, where Home and Away is filmed.  No one back home will know about this show, but I’ll get you hooked if you visit!

We spent $150(each) to do a Blue Mountains tour and this is what we got to see:

A whole lot of nothing.

It was still a good trip though.  We went on the world’s steepest railway.  This pic doesn’t do it justice, but it was pretty much vertical.

Highlights for me were in the little things.  Our tour took us to a tiny candy shop that had every sort of candy you could imagine!  I finally found the cola bottles I’ve been looking for.
I was a loser and took a picture of Krispy Kreme!  So yummy!  These aren’t even in Canada and the last time I had one was on the way to Mexico like 7 years ago (has it really been that long??).

Wellington doesn’t really have a bra/underwear store like La Senza, for example and I always complain about it.  So, I made sure I bought a couple when I found, you guessed it, LA SENZA!!

I don’t normally shop at the following store.  I boycotted it when I was still in Canada cause EVERYONE wore it (at least in Vancouver anyway), and I would never spend more than $50 for any item.  But I caved and ended up buying a pair of pants before I left for NZ and fell in love straight away.
So, when I found it in Sydney, I decided to splurge and buy 2 more pants and my first hoodie from LULULEMON! Goodbye $450! It was worth it.

The whole trip was a lot of fun, whether plans worked out or not.  I would go back in a heartbeat.

*There’s a lot more pictures on Flickr and Facebook