Chinatown and New Friends!
Trip Start
Jun 07, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 28, 2008
Sydney,
Australia
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
This was a very lowkey day, Mom went out early to change some money and then went shopping. I booked our bridge climb for that following day at 9:45 - for me and Amy and Tricia. Amy and I then went out shopping after that. We invited the girls, but they were sleeping so we left them a note and headed out. We ended up exhausting our local area, so we found a little sushi place and had lunch. I had chicken teriyaki and Amy had a lunch box. After lunch, we called Mom and she said that she and the girls were going shopping and that we were all invited to dinner that night with friends of Tricia's.
So, Amy and I decided to explore Chinatown in our time before dinner
Amy's Lunch.
. We asked directions, jumped on the train and set off. It took us a while to find it, but once we were in it, we knew. We stopped at a Chinese bakery and Amy got an amazing pastry that was so warm and fresh. We stopped in some little shops and tried on some clothes. Amy found some nice huge stud earrings as well :)Around 4, we headed back to the train station and took our ride back to the suburbs. We got in, changed for dinner and headed out to different suburbs, more eastern, towards the water. We met Tricia's friends, an 18 year old named Jennifer, and her parents Toni and Peter. We had dinner in a local pub, which was explained to us as like a bunch of little bars in one building. The food was pretty good and the conversation was hilarious. We talked a lot about the differences between our cultures, words and ideas and phrases that didn't quite translate. Then we talked about things they didn't have in AUS that they missed from the US. We made fun of them for saying aluminium even though it's spelled aluminum here, then we got made fun of leaving the h's out of words, like herbs and graham.
After dinner, we said our fond goodbyes and headed back to the hotel. We had been planning on going out to a club that night, but just staying up till 10 was exhausting us all, so we stayed in.
