{"id":615,"date":"2007-02-23T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/busy-busy-busy"},"modified":"2007-10-20T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T20:11:00","slug":"busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/busy-busy-busy","title":{"rendered":"Busy busy busy…!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been really busy. On Tuesday I went in to the city for the first time when we had dinner at Sydney Tower (Centerpoint Tower).<\/p>\n

\"Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n

The food was really good; I even tried some kangaroo and camel. The camel meat was really tough but the kangaroo was alright. I wouldn’t eat it regularly though. There also were tiny octopi (octopuses) but I wasn’t feeling quite that<\/em> adventurous. We saw the fireworks they had arranged for the cruiseships Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday we went to Stanwell Park for some nice views<\/p>\n

\"Nice<\/a><\/p>\n

and then to Scarborough for some lunch (I had fish and chips — how boring am I?! It was delicious, though). Then we drove down to Wollongong for some more views and choc tops (soft ice with chocolate coating).<\/p>\n

On Thursday we went into the city again. We walked through the Rocks (the old part of the city) to the Opera House.<\/p>\n

\"Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n

Strolled through the Royal Botanical Gardens to the Library of NSW. There were some nice exhibitions there about old books and escaped convicts. The last stop was the Sydney Aquarium where I saw the platypus! I didn’t know they were so small — only 30 cm (about a foot) long. It was a fast bugger so I couldn’t get a proper picture…<\/p>\n

\"Platypus<\/a><\/p>\n

We were knackered from all the walking so we decided to leave the Wildlife World for the next day. So, today we went to the Wildlife World where we saw all kinds of insects, reptiles and of course…<\/p>\n

the wombat
\n\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

the wallabi
\n\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

and of course, the koala
\n\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately there were no kangaroos, probably because they need so much space to live in.<\/p>\n

I had good luck in shopping too: found a book on Stephen King’s unpublished stories (I forget the name and it’s safely wrapped up) and Dreamfall (PC game). I can’t buy much more — I only have 20 something dollars (AUD) left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week has been really busy. On Tuesday I went in to the city for the first time when we had dinner at Sydney Tower (Centerpoint Tower). The food was really good; I even tried some kangaroo and camel. The camel meat was really tough but the kangaroo was alright. I wouldn’t eat it regularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spur","category-tourist-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}