Saturday,
May 19, 2012
I finished my Friday evening up
with accordance to what I previously said I would do – catch a rugby game on
the tv. And might I add my tv in the
apartment is super nice and large. So my
thoughts on rugby – I don’t get it. Things I do understand - 1. You can’t pass
the ball forward, only laterally and backwards.
2. You can run or kick the ball forwards. 3. A “touchdown” is 4 points and a “field
goal” is 2 points. 4. You have either 5 or six downs to get all the way down
the field to score. 5. The ball can hit
or bounce of the ground and be in play.
My day was extremely long. I woke up and had the same breakfast as I did
the day before. Our bus left for our day
of traveling at 8:00am. We drove through
traffic to our first stop, Sydney Olympic park.
On the way we crossed many bridges and I got to see so many boats
rowing. It made me so happy seeing just
one thing that’s familiar to me. I saw basically all boats, singles, doubles,
fours, eights. There seemed to be just
as many dragon boats out on the water. Shortly
after we arrived at the park and it is very large. It wasn’t the greatest stop, we only got to
see the main stadium because everything is just so spread out and we were only
there for 20 minutes. Didn’t get to see
the pool :/ in front of the main stadium
was these poles where on each on are names of people who helped volunteer for
the Olympics. I looked through all the
Br names and didn’t find a Brichacek.
Following the park we went to
Featherdale, a zoo. It was a lot of fun.
I roamed the zoo at my own pace and took
tons of pictures. There were so many
birds! I tried to take a picture of a bird and then take a picture of the
plaque that said what the bird was to help me remember in the future. So many things in the zoo just jump out from
the fences and roam the zoo. Not to
mention all the kangaroos roam free in the zoo.
I paid one dollar to get an ice cream cone filled with food and got to
feed them. One will just come straight up
to you and look at your food and try to reach for it, and once you start
feeding one, more will come. They are
such furry, soft animals. There were
also many koalas. They’re boring in the
sense that they don’t do anything, however they do wake them up and put them on
a tree branch so you can pose with one, which I did. They looked more annoyed when people are
taking pictures and petting them. I saw a Dingo, Tasmanian devil, emu, ostrich,
farm animals, wombat, and just so many different birds. We were only there for about an hour and a
half but I made it through I think everything.
We then made our way to a town
called Leura. This was an hour and a
half away, something that I wasn’t too pleased about. I feel like I spent the past semester on a
coach bus traveling for crew so now any time spent on one I get either sleepy
or crabby. But we stopped at this time
for lunch. It was a cute downtown area
and we directed to head to one café for a pie, but since I didn’t like the pie I
had yesterday I hoped to get something else.
I stepped into four cafes before finally finding one I liked. The first cafes I walked through all were
just so expensive. My final destination
was Leura Gourmet Café and Deli. I ordered
a smoke salmon quiche and an apple and mango juice. The quiche was delish and the juice was made
with Australian fruit and it was good, a little thick but definitely did its
job. We all got back on the bus and
headed over into the Blue Mountains.
Our first stop was The Echo
point. It is just the edge of the cliff
that allows you to see out into the Blue Mountains and a viewing point to see
the Three Sisters. I am unsure the story
behind the three sisters and I’m sure I could look it up online but it’s just
three rock statues sticking out form the cliffs, which is pictured below.
We got back on the bus after taking pictures
and headed to where we hiked down into the mountains for an hour. The hike was a lot of fun. Most of it was a path worn down by everyone
walking that only fit two people across.
Most of it was very steep and I was freezing the whole time being in the
shade and that its fall here. It was
really pretty at all the life around in the mountains. There are these large ferns that grow
vertically with a trunk that they use to date the forest. Some of the steps we went down were so steep I
don’t know I never fell. We saw many
waterfalls and followed one down the father we walked. (the final picture posted) I thought walking down a path would be no
exercise yet the constant contraction of my leg muscles as it the step below me
to absorb my step definitely got tiring.
At the end of the path that we were on we took the steepest railway back
up to the top. It was just like a
rollercoaster minus the speed. Three
other girls and I got the front row and it was a little scary going back
up. You are tilted forward it was hard
not to hold the fence above your head to hold on. I took a video as we were going back up and
all it is is everyone in our group screaming, some found it more terrifying than
others. The horrible drive home was over
two hours. The movie Red Dog was put in
for us to watch but I played my ipod and watched outside as we drove past.
Facts
-olympic
park was built on top of waste, they flattened and crushed garbage hills and
built everything on top of it cause it was the only place closest enough to the
city with enough land
-taxi cabs
have lights on top of them and when they are lit it means they are empty
-the blue
mountains all used to be flat land but the mountains were made by the ground
sinking in, why the tops of the mountains are flat and not pointed like other
mountains.
So cool
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