Anastasia also came to meet us. We waited for a good couple of hours and were tempted at one point to just leave as we were meant to be meeting Frank and Marion for dinner as Marion was leaving to go to Germany for Christmas. It got to about 6.30pm and people started to walk down the red carpet, at first we didn’t recognise anyone and then we started to see people from Home & Away, Marcia Hines –Australian Idol judge, the two Australian Idol finalists, Ian Thorpe and others. Eventually we heard lots of screaming and knew the screen stars were here and got ready to pounce.
Nicole came first. She was very tall, skinny and looked beautiful in a white sparkly dress. I shouted Nicole can I get your autograph and she came and signed my little pink book with a “NK” whilst Adam took lots of pictures, then Hugh Jackman came, looking very sexy in his fitted suit. At first he went to the other side and I thought we would miss him but he came over to our side and again I shouted can I get your autograph at the top of my lungs which seemed to work as I got his too. We would have liked to have stayed longer to see what other celebrities showed up but could not miss having dinner with Frank & Marion. We made our way to the exit and caught a glimpse of Keith Urban too! Anastasia was leaving the following day so we said our goodbyes and then caught a taxi to Balmain to meet them at a lovely Japanese restaurant called Samurai. As we were an hour later we had to say bye straight away and Frank took Marion to the airport whist we got something to eat and waited for Frank to return to at least have dessert with him.
A couple of days later we caught the ferry from Circular Quay over to Taronga Zoo.
Once we arrived we had to take the cable car to the entrance, we shared the cable car with a girl called Ella, who was travelling alone, we got chatting and invited her to go around the zoo with us.
We got on really well and saw Ella a few more times before she left and headed to Canada. Taronga Zoo didn’t quite compare to the standard of Australia Zoo (we are biased now), however they did have more of a range of different animals including seals, penguins, monkeys, gorillas, giraffes etc. We did enjoy our time there and the day just flew by.
Extend Technologies (the company Adam had worked for in Brisbane) called to say they could offer him some work until the end of January which was a huge relief so we went to DFO (Discount Factory Outlet) to go do some shopping. The DFO wasn’t as good as the one in Brisbane so we only bought a couple of items. On the Monday Adam started his job whilst I went into the CBD to register with a couple of job agencies. However they all told me that as it was the run up to Christmas, there would not be many job available which was a bit disappointing. Adam was quite tired after his first day of work not just because of getting back into the routine of things but also the journey there and back would take him an hour each way on Sydney’s packed trains.
Later on that week we met up with Kris, Henne (Kris’ mum) and Akka for dinner as Henne and Akka were due to leave. We met up at “The Rocks” where we enjoyed a pub meal and then Kris took us to where she worked so we could see the view from the roof top. And what a view it was, with the Sydney Harbour bridge to the left of us and the Opera House to the right and as it was in the evening the city was lit up so we took advantage of the amazing view by taking lots of pictures.
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