Well I am actually writing this on Sunday night, but since I have had such a busy weekend I have to write two entries. This is about my day on Saturday. If you notice the title of this one it best describes the weather here on Saturday. Actually I heard today that yesterday was the hottest Sydney has been in 4 years. Let me tell you, it was Hot, with a captial H. I was taking the train to Manly beach and just sitting still on the train I could feel the sweat running down the sides of my face and back. I know that is a smidge gross, but it really paints an accurate picture of how hot it was. I figured the beach would be a good place to be on such a stinkin hot day, so I took two trains and a ferry to get to Manly. When I got there I soon realized that they were having their annual lifegaurd games. So this took up a large chunk of the beach, leaving the swimmers confined to a few small squares of sand and water. It was mega packed because of the heat, and the spectators to the competition. I went in the water for a few minutes and sat on the beach for about a half hour and then went and milled around the shops. I couldn't hack the people+h
eat+shitty sand. The sand on Manly is not cool. It sticks to everything! Even when it is dry it doesn't brush off. It is the most annoying beach sand ever. I was glad that I went out to Manly though, and I got some information about a big walk that I may do at some point. A funny thing happened while I was walking around though. They were having a little market in one of the side alleys, so I walked around there for a bit. Part of the market was in a bar so you had to be over 18 to go in there, or supervised by someone over 18 said the sign. I went to walk in the door and the guy sitting at the front put his arm out and said "Are you over 18?" I laughed right in his face! Haha and no I don't think he was hitting on me, I think he was just stupid, lol. I was glad that I had the experience of taking the ferry to Manly, but if I go back it won't be for the beach. I took the train home, and when I stepped out of the station at Parramatta the temperature had dropped by about 20 degrees and the sky opened up and poured. The erratic weather kinda made me feel like I was at home :).
eat+shitty sand. The sand on Manly is not cool. It sticks to everything! Even when it is dry it doesn't brush off. It is the most annoying beach sand ever. I was glad that I went out to Manly though, and I got some information about a big walk that I may do at some point. A funny thing happened while I was walking around though. They were having a little market in one of the side alleys, so I walked around there for a bit. Part of the market was in a bar so you had to be over 18 to go in there, or supervised by someone over 18 said the sign. I went to walk in the door and the guy sitting at the front put his arm out and said "Are you over 18?" I laughed right in his face! Haha and no I don't think he was hitting on me, I think he was just stupid, lol. I was glad that I had the experience of taking the ferry to Manly, but if I go back it won't be for the beach. I took the train home, and when I stepped out of the station at Parramatta the temperature had dropped by about 20 degrees and the sky opened up and poured. The erratic weather kinda made me feel like I was at home :).After arriving home Peter said that they were going into the city for the Symphony in the park, so I decided to join them. We drove into the city around 7:30ish and walked over to the Domain. The Domain is the main big park where all big events like this are held. Remember the picture I put up of the million people in the park for carols? Well that was also held at the Domain. Anyways we were walking up the path to the area where we were meeting friends, and Liam noticed birds in the sky. He said "Look Jessica at those birds." I looked where he was looking and sure enough is seemed that there was a large murder of crows or some other type of black birds flying around. Then one flew towards us, and over us. I looked up and it was at that moment I re
alized they weren't birds at all, but BATS!! Giant bats! They were huge, and there was thousands of them flying around. There just seemed to be more and more of them the darker it got. I knew that they lived in the botanic gardens but it was very creepy to see them flying around. Also it made it slightly more horror movie like with the symphony playing in the background.
alized they weren't birds at all, but BATS!! Giant bats! They were huge, and there was thousands of them flying around. There just seemed to be more and more of them the darker it got. I knew that they lived in the botanic gardens but it was very creepy to see them flying around. Also it made it slightly more horror movie like with the symphony playing in the background. The Symphony was great. It was nice to sit in the park and listen to the music. Plus now I can say that I have heard the Sydney Symphony play. There seemed to be a shit load of drunk old people around though. This is because I am not the only one that takes to drinking in the park. We got home around 11:30pm and I had a bunch of stuff to get ready for my bushwalk so that's why I had to give you Saturday's update today. Also I am hoping to put all my pictures from this weekend on facebook tomorrow.
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