Amber and I caught the train into Circular Quay this morning and walked round to the opera house. Amber was finding the heat a bit much and her ear was hurting but we booked ourselves onto the city cat to Olympic Park where we had planned to meet Marc, Simone and Kyara. It was a lovely half hour ride upstream!
When we arrived, however, we discovered the Olympic Park ferry dock is quite a way from the statium and other features and no shuttle bus seemed to be running. We started walking and half way through a 1.5 hour walk, the skies opened and we were pretty drenched by the time we arrived. Luckily we had made a game of learning Spanish on the way and we were both in reasonable spirits.
The Aquatic Centre was well worth the walk. Not just an Olympic pool, the huge building housed an aquatic playground complete with slides, inflatables, a rapid water circle and a huge bucket that dumped water on your heads in intervals. It was just what the kids needed (big and small) and we played in the water for a couple of hours.
Marc drove us home after that and we showed them Peg's then headed to the Sushi Train before dinner and then kissed them on the way to the airport to return to the Sunshine Coast.
What a lovely day it was catching up with our best friends. We are both thoroughly exhausted, but happy!
We are loving reading the blog. Sounds like you are having a great time. Welcome back Amber!
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