Leianab and Emmy do Sydney

I have spent the last two weeks with my first visitor from home...the lovely Leiana Briganti, better known as Leianab. It's hard to believe that I was actually able to be a tour guide to someone since it wasn't too long ago that I was obsessively asking the bus driver if we were at Central (a gigantic, well-known bus/train stop) yet. I'll do my best to recap our time together.

May 12- Leianab arrives at 7am. I don't find her in the airport until 8:30am because her cell phone didn't work in Australia. First stop in Sydney? The zoo! We packed up James and Josh, hopped on the ferry and spent the rest of the day at looking at animals while James made monkey sounds at all of them. Once we got home, Leianab passed out and I went off to my running group. Do we know how to party or what?

Note: the rest of events will definitely be out of order because I have a terrible memory.

Here are the touristy spots we hit:
-Sydney Zoo
-Featherdale Wildlife Park (petting zoo)
-Powerhouse Museum (exhibitions based on the ideas and technologies that have changed the world aka awesome 80s stuff and dresses from fashion shows)
-Opera House (the most gorgeous building in Sydney)
-Pylon Lookout(best views of the city)
-Coastal walk (Coogee to Bondi beach)
-Hunter Valley Wine Tour (Five wine tastings in one day)
-Treetop Adventures (We thought it was just zip lining but turns out, we were doing crazy obstacles from tree to tree)

When we weren't being tourists, we were either watching Katt Williams/Dave Chappelle/Friends/The Office, playing with James and Josh, walking up the street to get breakfast from Bar Sirocco (where we each ordered the same thing every time), going to bars including Scubar, Martin Place Bar, Ivy and some other bar in Kings Cross where they serve shots from teapots.

I also had the pleasure of introducing Leianab to potato wedges with sour cream and sweet chili sauce, Golden Gaytimes, Tim Tams, cider and Max Brenner.

For those of you who know Leianab, you know she is quite obsessed with taking pictures. Ironically, she left her camera charger at home and her camera died minutes after arriving here. My camera is still being held hostage at the camera repair store so thank you to Dave and Jo for forking over their camera so we could stop whining about not being able to take pictures.

She left early this morning and is currently in transit back to South Florida. I guess I'll have to get used to sleeping alone again!