Sydney

The vast Pacific, normally I would try to protect it, but I have no backup.

Leave it to me to find the one place in Sydney to get completely lost in for about 5 hours, bad things awaited me at the end of this road, including giant spiders and mounds of explosives.

Sydney at night, despite my pleas the captain of the ferry would not stop, resulting in a blurred opera house, but you get the idea.

Life in Sydney has reached a nice, slow monotony. My intentions of visiting Melbourne for the week were demolished when my wallet mysteriously went missing Sunday night and with it the $300 I had for heading south. So instead I decided to save some money and push Penner to the limits of his hospitality by staying with him for a week. I'm really starting to like Sydney as a city, it's extremely clean and reminds me of Vancouver except without all the bums. Most of my time has been spent working out (until they found Penner and I were using the same gym pass and took corrective measures), walking around the city, hanging out with Penner's friends and accompanying the English and Israeli guys who live with Penner as they watch every season of "24" in 6 days (they're also lazy travellers who have decided to stay still for a few weeks and have since become intimately involved with Jack Bauer). Yesterday I took a ferry over to Manly, on the other side of Sydney harbour. As usual, when left to my own devices, I managed to get completely lost and after climbing through a hole in a wall, somehow found myself on an artillery range in the middle of the woods, something that the local Sydney-ians never even knew existed. Today will be another day of essentially nothing as I wait for Penner to come home and cook yet another gourmet meal. Tonight is my last night at his place, for tomorrow morning I pick up Danielle after her jaunt over the Pacific! And that's about it, it's amazing how little I have to write about once I put my bag down for a week, is this really how boring normal life is? *shudder*