Queen Mary 2

On a horribly overcast and grey Valentines Day morning we got up early and headed into the city to pick up Steve's parents who were arriving from South Africa on the Queen Mary 2. It docked at Garden Island so we parked at the Opera House and then walked through the Botanical Gardens to see it.

Wow - no matter how many times I see those big cruise ships they still blow me away every time with their sheer size and the thought of the operation required to run them boggles my mind - but as interesting as they are I've still got no desire to EVER go on one . . .

Arriving in Sydney on Valentines Day there had to be proposal on board didn't there??? Hope you feel special Jess, you covered the Queen Mary 2 sign and ruined my pictures - haha.



The small cruise boat next to the Queen Mary 2 is one of the many chartered boats they used to transport the passengers and their luggage to Darling Harbour so they could pass through customs, it takes a few hours for everyone to disembark and is quite a performance - hopefully only a temporary solution while they build the new passenger terminal at Barangaroo.

Walking back through Botanical Gardens on our way to Darling Harbour to pick them up.
Lily being dragged/dropped/told to get down and walk . . . every parent of a toddler knows this feeling I'm sure

for some reason Austin reminds me of Steve in this photo, probably the raised eyebrows . . .

a bit of a weird photo to post I know but I just love this tree

I don't have any photos of Brian and Monica arriving, I put my camera away after the customs guy came over and told me to stop taking pictures of the area as it was a security breach and I could get arrested - Fun Spoiler!!!

When they did eventually walk through it was quite surreal, they've had to postpone this trip a few times and we are just so happy that they have finally made it out here and that Brian is up and about and looking great.