Mercantile Hotel Sydney

... I woke from a solid 6 hours of sleep, Shane Barnard and the Gettys refocus my heart on the Lord. At this very moment, Steve and the ASC community are partaking in worship together on this second Sunday of Advent. I will open my own copy of the Advent devotional to join my fellow believers there and around the world in anticipation and hope for the fulfillment of God's promise of rescue. This is a season of waiting ...

... the world are all the same except some types of candy are different. A bottle of coke over here is just under $3 usually and a candy bar is a buck fifty. The exchange rate right now isn't very good for me. It's almost dollar to dollar so it winds up being that food is more expensive over here even with my extra 7 cents to the Aussie dollar.

We arrived in Sydney at 6am and so slept in the car in a parking lot till 7am. We walked around exploring, ate some food, found our ...

... to those of the US. It was about the size of my High School’s drama stage. Unfortunately that’s was the lone good part as the props were also something my High School drama department could have put together. I was really surprised and less than thrilled. Also, they didn’t give out Playbills. What the heck are you supposed to do when you get bored during the intermission(s), if you don’t have a Playbill ...

all i can say is, it was a long fortty eight hours..
without changing time zones, i was awake for 51 hours straight heres how it went.
woke up at 06:00 in sydney(06:00 day one- zero hours travelling), got a bus to the airport and checked into my flight for 10:00.
flew from sydney to auckland, which took 3 hours 30, arrived at half one sydney time,(which i'll put in brackets to referance the actuall hours ive been travelling). new zealand is two hours ahead of ...

Ich habe lange ueberlegt, ob ich diesen Blog ueberhaupt weiterschreiben soll. Zum einen besteht mein Leben hier primaer aus arbeiten und ist deshalb nicht besonders spannend zum anderen habe ich mich an die Eigenheiten der Australier gewoehnt und sie fallen mir deshalb schon gar nicht mehr auf. Hauptgrund ist aber, dass ich diesem Land einfach extrem wenig positives abgewinnen kann. Diese Aussage muss ich allerdings dahin praezisieren, dass ...

... weren't Japanese but played Japanese Music on the Drums, Flippin fantastic! We also checked out the National Maritime Museum which housed the James Craig, Endeavor, The Vampire battleship and a Submarine. The night ended with a few beers, and then Nick headed back down to Melbourne in the morning. So that's pretty much it, now it's more work I will be heading back down to Melbourne around mid June before i head off the New Zealand for 3 weeks, so look forward to that! Till next time..

... that moment I think it dawned on us that we were really in Sydney! We took loads of photos (as we do!) and sat looking out for ages...we ended our night by taking a walk up to the crazy crazy Kings Cross...not somewhere I shall return to I don't think! Today we're going to visit another friend of Stevie's family - Micheal Rooney...I think this will be the last of the family friend visits for a while, it's always interesting to go see someone and hear their story...

... placed 'Vaio' sailing in. I waved and was of course delighted when the evidently exhausted crew all waved back. It's a shame there weren't more people around to welcome them; hopefully the restart on the 27th will be better attended. The Challenge is circling the globe in the same direction as we are, but their next stop is Cape Town so our paths now diverge.

After a visit to the yachts berthed in Darling Harbour we climbed 200 steps up ...