I tried to add to the blog last night but I'm finding that the wine every night with dinner is keeping me from making a lot of sense much less staying awake to write. I'm such a lightweight; after only one glass of wine I'm pretty sleepy. It's before dinner now so I'll let you know how we've spent the weekend so far.
Saturday morning we found a pancake restaurant. Yippee! It was yummy. They serve crepes too so we'll go back. We took the ferry to the Taronga Zoo. Mostly we wanted to see the Australian animals so we sought them out first. I must say that the Cleveland Zoo Australian section is very good in comparison. What I really did enjoy was seeing a kookaburra bird up close and personl. It is a beautiful bird and even though it didn't "laugh" for us, I was so happy to see it. Gary took a couple of pictures which I plan to have him add to this post. The kookaburra made me think of Girl Scout days when we learned a song that went like this: "Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree, eating all the gumdrops he can see. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, save some there for me. Ha Ha Ha." Of course, they don't eat gumdrops but that's the silly song. We saw a trainer feeding a brown bear. He was tossing apples to the bear and basically playing catch with him because the bear caught almost all the apples in its mouth. A peacock opened its feathers beautifully for us. We saw baby and adult elephants being fed which was cute because the babies were chasing the trainers for the food. We covered most of the zoo and then took the ferry back to the hotel to rest awhile. Oh yes, we also walked around the street fair that I spoke about on my last post.
We found a really good Italian restaurant for dinner. Okay, I had sangria this time and delicious vegetarian lasagna. Gary had veal marsala. We were hungry because we skipped lunch after such a big breakfast. We then went to a Guylian Chocolate Restaurant for dessert. Gary had a hot chocolate with whipped cream for $9 and I had a plain hot chocolate $8 with a shortbread cookie $3.50. This is on par with Godiva chocolates I suppose you'd say. Oh yes, there was a piece of chocolate candy in my cup before I poured in the hot chocolate from the pot. Yummmmm. It was my kind of place! We waddled on back to the hotel to call it a night.
This morning we found ourselves back at the pancake house where I had Monte Cristo crepes (ham and cheese) and salad. One thing we've noticed here is that most people eat salad without salad dressing. You have to ask for oil and vinegar if you want salad dressing. Gary had pancakes and sausages. We than took a ferry to Manly Beach. There is a lovely city there but the main attraction is the beach. The water is beautiful and many people were in the water. Those people in the wateere were wearing wet suits so it must have been cold but there were lots of people laying on the beach, playing volleyball, building sand castles, etc. We walked all around the beach area and went to a very small art museum about the area. After an ice cream cone and wandering around their street fair, we caught the ferry back to Sydney. It's only about a half hour ride with beautiful views of the water and Sydney. This is definitely family day. We saw lots of children with parents and little and big dogs too. Pretty soon we'll head out to dinner but Gary's going to download pictures now so I'll sign off for now.
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