Chris and Roberta came to visit a couple of weeks ago which was awesome, I was so happy for Steve to finally have some family here, with the sheer size of my family I'm sure he feels completely outnumbered at times!!! The kids of course LOVED having Chris & Roberta in the house, there were more people to show off for and play games with... Aunty Roberta couldn't say no of course and was dragged into every single imaginary game. These usually involve hunting adventures looking for tigers, lions or dinosaurs, complete with backpacks, binoculars and torches. But the new favourite game became hunting for 'Bokke', a Springbok stuffed toy that Chris & Roberta bought Lily from South Africa. Roberta really got into it and even invented her own game 'The Claw', where she would chase the kids through the house with her neck pillow (for the plane), calling out "the claaaawwww..." in a deep voice and pretending it was a giant claw coming to grab them. They of course wanted to play it over and over and over, as only kids can do.
We didn't do a lot of touristy stuff, Chris & Roberta really wanted to spend time with us and see our day to day life, not rush around trying to see everything. I love it when people visit though because it gives you an excuse to go see all those wonderful places in Sydney that you hardly ever visit. You see it through fresh eyes and it makes you appreciate what a truly amazing city Sydney is...we should all get out and enjoy it more...
MANLY FERRY
CIRCULAR QUAY & OPERA HOUSE
THE ROCKS
GLENMORE HOTEL
TARONGA ZOO
THE GAP & WATSON'S BAY
CHINATOWN
SYDNEY FISH MARKETS
hang on a second - you said you DIDN'T do much tourist stuff!! I'm exhausted just looking at the photos!
ReplyDeleteI know it looks like a lot because I put up so many pics but all those places are pretty close together - and it was spread over 4 days!!! You should have seen what I did to Steve the first time he came out, the poor guy got dragged from one end of the city to the other, and then to the blue mountains, newcastle and wollongong - he was a wreck by the end of the trip!
ReplyDeleteyep! There's a lot to be said for quality over quantity isn't there?!
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