Frank was back from Germany and so the three of us caught the train in to the CBD. We had arranged with Emma and Matt to meet us at Hyde Park in the centre of Sydney where there was a display of lots of old cars and free music concerts. We evenly found Matt and Emma who had brought along their friends Bec’s (everyone calls her Skinny) and Paul. After all the introductions we wandered through the Park looking at all the old Holden’s and other old Australian makes of car, there were even a few Jags and Minis there too.
Frank and i stopped to grab an Australia BBQ roll, which turned out to be just steak and onion in a roll. After lunch we continued looking at the hundreds of cars and made our way to Circular Quay. We watched a few of the many performing artist who lined the quay and ended up at The Rocks. The Rocks had 6 different stages setup around the streets with many different artists playing all day, we walked towards the main stage which was actually a floating stage on the harbour. On the way to the stage we passed a stall giving out free transfer tattoos of the Australia flag to kids, we talked the nice man at the stall to give us some tattoos.
We sat down on some steps next to the harbour watching a band on the main stage, the band was ok but nothing special, but we did have a good view of the harbour, we had noticed that there was a lot of police boats on the harbour and the was a lot of activity a few minutes later 2 Tall ships with a flotilla of smaller boats entered the harbour and sailed under the bridge. We wanted to see what else was going on around The Rocks and so strolled around the streets. We found a small market that sold hand crafted items and took are time looking at all the stalls. The main event was a firework display in darling harbour. We started to head in that direction, at the start of the day the sun had been out and it looked like it was going to be another fantastic Sydney day, but later on the clouds had rolled in and now it had started to rain. Sally, Roisin and some of the other girls living with them had gone to see some friends in Mildura, leaving Jen and Lisa back in Sydney. We arranged to meet them both at darling harbour.
Paul had said that he knew a bar that served Pizza at $10 and drinks half price until 5pm, it turned out that the bar had just changed its prices on food but we stayed for some half price drinks. The Harbour was starting to fill up with people waiting for the fireworks, we thought we should see if we could find a better place to see the show from and had a walk around the harbour. It was still raining and we couldn’t find any where under cover, Tj and Frank lead us back towards the bar we had been in early, but in the confusion and with so many people around the rest of us lost them, not know exactly where they were going we just stopped and waited for them to notice that we had not followed.
A few minutes later the fireworks erupted, and another fantastic firework display lit up the night. Only when the fireworks had finished did we catch up with TJ and Frank who had only been 20 meters away on the roof of the bar. We all ended up in the bar and had a few drinks before we said good night and went our separate ways.
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