today is our Saturday here in Sydney. woke up this morning to very gloomy skies and it rained until about 11:30 AM. But no worries mate, we got up at 7 AM, went to have breakfast at a cute little place called Bakers Oven here in the Rocks and headed over to the ferry terminal. Bought our round trip tickets to Darling Harbor. We started out at the Aquarium when it opened at 9 Am and it is a wonderful aquarium. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

we got there at the right time because as we were leaving there was quite a line to get in.

from the aquarium, we headed over to the Queen Victoria Building. This building is beautiful decorated in victorian motif and 5 or 6 floors. They are all decorated for christmas and their christmas tree must have spanned 5 of the 6 floors and was decorated with swarkowski (sp?) crystals. Beautiful. had a coffee a the QVB and bought some LUSH products and then headed back to the ferry landing. Caught the 1245 PM ferry back to our area at Circular Quay and then had a light lunch at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Last night we went to the Rocks night market and it was a zoo- ned said they were expecting 25,000 people there and i believe they were all there. last night we saw everything imagineable in people. some people dressed for a costume party, and every kind of person dressed we saw there. we walked around for about 30 minutes - there was a live band, lots of food booths and lots of arts and crafts but we did not stay as there were too many people.

That ended yesterday.

right now we are in the room resting and will go back out shortly to do somemore sightseeing in our area and then are having dinner at 6:30 at an italian restaurant close by.

tomorrow morning early call to the airport - cab will be here at 7 Am and our flight to Auckland leaves at 9:30 AM. will post more tomorrow ehn we arrive auckland.