Sydney Highlights - Round Dos

Having survived my first full Sunday as a member of the bishopric here in Chicagoland (note to self-pack a cereal bar or something in the Church book bag!), it's time to post just a bit more about our fiesta in Sydney.

Shari was quite a trooper, agreeing to attend one of the two days of the conference I was at - the NBTA AsiaPacific Annual Conference. We rode out to the site of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games for the conference. The venue was in the stadium where the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of those games were held. It's now called the ANZ Stadium. Here are a couple of shots:


We took these during the "behind the scenes" tour of the Stadium that we got to take. The Stadium is primarily used for Rugby Union games, Rugby League games, cricket matches, and some Australian Rules Football, or AFL, games. It was cool to see the inner workings and to also see some of the remnants of the Olympics. We even made it on to the Gold Medal stand:

Now before this becomes a painful slide show, reminiscent of the ones your spinster aunts made you sit through of their trips to see Great Aunt Esther after her hip replacement, hang in there, just a few more pictures!

After my conference responsibilities ended, Sydney was ours to explore. Some of the highlights included making it to the suburb of Carlingford to attend a session at the Sydney Temple:

Gracias to the weak American dollar, that trip to the Temple was a $150USD cab ride roundtrip. Ouch!

We explored Darling Harbour and Chinatown via the Sydney Ferry and managed to get a picture of ourselves riding the ferry:


Chinatown was awesome. I found a dumpy bakery where I was able to by pork bao and eggtarts. I was completely content. It kept my mind off the Bridge Climb....we got a picture of what we would be doing while we were on the ferry:

More on the Bridge Climb in the next post -