Keith Dallara

Picking up the folks

Yesterday, my parents arrived in Sydney, and Thanh and I picked them up as they departed their cruise ship. They're traveling with their friends Doug and Barb, who they know from back in Downingown. Barb has a condition that limits her to short amounts of time on her feet, so Doug pushes her most places in a wheelchair. They seem remarkably mobile, given this setup, and they managed to keep up with the rest of us quite well all day.

We hit a few of the regular tourist spots with them, including a quick look at the Opera House and sending them on a Harbor cruise. That evening, we met up for dinner at the restaurant Waterfront. The food there I thought was quite good, almost everyone had the Barramundi which is a local Australian fish. After dinner, we walked over to the Syndey Theatre Company, to watch a production of a play called Troupers. The play was a bit hard for us Americans to follow at first. Set in the years immediately after WWI, there was a lot of slang, and the Aussies talk funny to begin with. By the second act, I think everyone had got the hang of it, and enjoyed seeing the show.

This morning, we met my folks and Doug and Barb for brunch at Bondi beach. Then we did a bit of the walk between Bondi and Bronte beaches, but the heat and sun kept us from doing the whole 4K walk. The pictures below are of Bondi, and as usual there are a few more in our Flickr photos. Thanh took some great looking shots of Bondi with her Digital SLR. You can see them here

Tonight Thanh's mother is cooking everyone dinner, then off to Queensland in the morning.

Posted by kmd at March 2, 2007 11:48 PM