Sunday was our first rainy day, and we ate breakfast in our hotel room and waited to see when we could make a break for it. Around one, we headed over to The Rocks for the Australian Beer Festival. We didn’t find too much we were crazy about, although we liked the beers from a microbrewery called Fusion, and there was an interesting ginger beer. We walked our tipsiness down to the Sydney Aquarium and spent the rest of the day getting freaked out by huge nurse sharks and giant stingrays. It’s a pretty amazing aquarium. They have dugongs, which are an Australian kind of manatee, and we both liked watching the moon jellyfish. Here are some pictures:



















































We crashed at our hotel for a while and then made a second attempt at walking to Surry Hills for dinner. We’d been hoping to go to a Japanese café that looked good in our guidebook, but it turned out to be closed on Sunday nights. We ended up at a pretty disappointing Thai place, but we got to walk by some hilarious clubby techno clubs and bars alternating between 10-minute techno remixes of "Walk Like An Egyptian" and everyone in the house singing showtunes. Perhaps another night…. yes, another night.

Monday it was rainy again, so we went to the Powerhouse Museum, which is the science and industry museum. It's huge and we reached our saturation point after 3 hours, and weren't even close to getting through it all.

We had amazing soup-filled dumplings near our hotel, and wandered out later for some dessert. The place we'd been looking for was closed, but there's this chain of pie (meat pies and sweet pies), coffee and cookie shops called Pie Face (I didn't know this was a slur until Scotty educated me). But man, thank God for Pie Face. This is the second time they've saved our snacky butts. We spent the rest of the night lounging in the hotel and watching "Little Britain USA." I'm hoping to catch "New Zealand's Next Top Model" one of these nights.

Tomorrow is Scotty's first day at the Klick office and my first day of solo Sydneysiding. Rock and roll time.

Scotty at the Powerhouse Museum: