Wandering Saturday

can’t believe that it was only a week since the NRL game! It seems like it was an eon! Anyhow my Saturday wasn’t very exciting, edge of your seat thrilling with adventure. I met up with Richard and we went to Paddy’s Market in the city and walked for miles and miles around the city trying to find things that ended up not being where Google said they would be. Paddy’s Market is cool, and anyone that loves a good market would be in heaven in market city. It is very similar to Parklea Market that I used to go to at home only bigger. Then as I said, we wandered for a while looking for a Max Brenner that we couldn’t find and then a nonexistent Hard Rock Café. So after a bit of wandering and a Subway cookie we parted ways early afternoon.

From there I met up with Shane and we too wandered around the city for a while. We found ourselves down in Darling Harbour and along Cockle Bay. It was really nice because it was a hot day and the sun was starting to go down. We walked into some sort of Asian culture celebration down by the Chinese Gardens where I saw a busker which I had already seen at the busker festival in Halifax. This strangely enough is the second time this has happened to me here in Sydney. My first trip to Circular Quay I saw a busker that I had seen in August for the time just before I came here. The guy I saw on Saturday was one of the guys from a trio that often come to Halifax. Their name eludes me, but I know Andrea knows what it is. They are three young guys, from the Bronx New York, one of them is very young (well he was a kid when they first started coming to Halifax) and they always have a really really fat guy with them that does the emceeing for them. They are break dancers and are very good and entertaining. If you are reading this and you know who I am talking about message me on facebook and tell me the name of the group. Anyway one of the guys from this group was in Darling Harbour with two other random guys I had never seen before. I just caught the last trick of the show so we didn’t stick around. We sat in a nice little bar on the water and drank beer as the sun dropped lower to the horizon.

Shane invited me out with his friends, so I joined them for an evening of beer drinking and shenanigans. We went to a local pub where they all live, about an hour out of the city. It was good fun, but I was sure not to knock too many back on account of I had to climb one of the world’s most iconic bridges the next day. I am quite sure that is something you definitely don’t want to do hung over! Yep Sunday was my day to do the bridge climb that I had vowed I would do before I left Sydney, but that’s another story for another time!