Stu and Carol Go Mad in Scotland: Sydney Part 2

Saturday night saw heading into town for a romantic dinner in The Rocks (downtown) and then watch the high rollers at the casino.

Sydney at night is very impressive as well - the opera house and the harbour bridge under lights made the extended train ride (we went the wrong way to start with) worth it.

Didnt win any money at the casino unfortunately.

Sunday was Zoo day -which coincided with Steve's sons 2 year old birthday - good thing we were out of the house and so not witness to the swarm of toddlers and parents that arrived. Although we did see the aftermath. Clare saved us some yummy party treats too.

Sydney Zoo was pretty cool - you arrive by ferry from the city and take a gondola ride to the main entrance - passing over the elephant and orangutang enclosures on the way. Best sight was the gorilla family but we also looked at some snakes, tigers, bears and kangaroos. Stayed away from the spiders though - ick.

Cronulla beach on the monday was a bit of a fizzer - a bit too windy to enjoy the beach - although we did manage to go to every surf shop looking for the perfect boardshorts for Carol. Just a pity we didnt get to put them to use.

Finally, we boarded our (late) flight at 7:45pm Sydney time - got into Bangkok about 10 hours later - got off the plane just to re-board 15 mins later - then a shorter 4.5 hour flight to dubai where we arrived at 7:30 am local time -needless to say we were pretty tired - but I'll talk dubai in my next post.