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Day 4

Today started out pretty late. We were originally going to go on a city tour, but because we were out so late last night, decided to bag it. The tour started awfully early, and we were very tired from the escapades of the day before.

It was a pretty damp and grey day, but we didn’t let that stop us from having a good day out and about.

We headed into town after lunch and found the Apple store. They sold me a new brick—I have POWER again—and mentioned that our travel insurance would cover it. Get this, the same block for all Apples works in every country, you just need the appropriate plug! Because every apple block comes with a snap in short cord and a long grounded cord, BOTH Paula and my laptop can now be powered via local power (without conversion). Its times like this that I think that Apple rocks.

After the Apple store we headed down to “The Rocks”, an area of town down by the bay where prisoners were greeted and incarcerated. This house, Cadmen’s Cottage, was habitated by a man who was sentanced to death for horse thievery. The Crown ended up being too busy to carry out the sentence and by the wild machinations of time ended up as governor. They say that the American Dream is only found in America, but lord—going from Felon to Governor???

We visited the observatory where there were very cool strangling fig trees.

Check out the giant egg as well. Its about the size of a car.

Finally, I took a close up study of the structure of the bridge between Sydney and North Sydney. The bridge is pretty impressive—more so in person than when you see it in pictures.

We mostly wandered. It was a shorter day. A less stressful day. A pretty darn good day.

And I have POWER!