Day 6 & 7 - 4th of July & The Sydney Aquarium

July 4th

Today was July 4th and we had a pretty low key day. Our big adventure of the day was going to a local pet shop to see a travelling frog show and also to help Uncle Mark purchase some more fish for his aquarium. We got to learn lots of information about frogs, probably too much, but the kids had lots of fun.

That night we had our first Australian July 4th party. We stayed to be true to the American tradition with hot dogs and hamburgers, but fell short with the American beer. We just couldn't face paying $43 for a case of Bud or $80 for a case of Sam Adams. But the party went on with some good Australian wine and craft beer. No fire works but we all had fun.

July 5th

Today we gave our family a break from us and headed into the city to explore an area called Darling Harbour. After a quick train ride into the city we had a short walk thou the city down to the Darling Harbour area. The area is full of fun family activities and Gabbie saw a bungee jumping trampoline thing that she wanted to do. What fun she had jumping 20 - 30 feet in to the air doing back flips. She was loving it, and when she got off she said, 'glad Nonnie wasn't here as she'd be freaking out.' Gavin just sat and watched, really not the dare devil type.

After a quick lunch it was onto the high lite of the day, The Sydney Aquarium. We saw some truly amazing aquatic creatures. We started with the most recognized Australian aquatic animals, the Platypus and the crocodiles. The moved onto numerous other amazing fish and other sea creatures. There was a under was aquarium that we walked thou that had all kinds of fish swimming around us. We even got to see sharks and gigantic sting rays swimming around. Finally, we even got to see the stars of finding Nemo: Nemo himself, Dory, Flo & Bo, Bubbles, Scar and all the other fish in the Nemo movie, as we walked thou a Great Barrier reef display with all sorts of amazing tropical fish.