I guess
this post can be considered part 2 of my last one, because it’s still just
covering little adventures I had over the weekend. (Today was nothing to speak of, other than
class and a bag of crispy M&Ms, so let’s flash back for a second.)
On
Saturday I realized I had no plans for the weekend, which was a simultaneously
disappointing and exhilarating realization.
All my friends seemed to have something already planned, so I decided to
make it another solo adventure day. I
headed downtown to the Australian Museum downtown in Sydney, which I heard was
really cool and really cheap.
I didn’t
take too many pictures, (so I found some stock ones online,) but it was a cool
place to run around for a few hours for $8.
It’s a natural history museum, so most of it was taxidermied animals and
fossils from all over Australia. Though
I’ve already been to 2 zoos, it was still cool to see Australia’s weird past and
present wildlife up close. There was
even a life-size model of a giant wombat, which apparently coexisted with humans
thousands of years ago! (Ok, to me this
is interesting.)
There
was also a dinosaur fossil exhibit and a whole section on indigenous peoples of
Australia, both of which were super cool!
After I
exhausted the museum, I got on the train to go across the Harbour Bridge and to
a place I always wanted to visit: the North Sydney Olympic Pool!
This
place is just gorgeous from every angle, and the best part is it’s a public
pool open year round! I got in for $10
and ended up swimming back and forth for probably 3 hours. It was a perfect day, and swimming is
excellent exercise, which I really needed after a few days of being on my
bum.
And
yes, because I know you’re wondering,
this is the place where one of the final
scenes of that anime about competitive swimming takes place.
So I
stayed downtown until it was almost dark, and then headed home on the train,
then the bus. Public transport here is
so convenient and really easy to use.
Chicago’s bus system has always been so intimidating to me, but somehow
Sydney makes it so easy to hop from bus to train to ferry to bus without so
much as a second thought. They’re also
much cleaner than Chicago, so that helps, too.
On
Sunday I still had no plans, but ended up joining a group that headed down to
Maroubra Beach to play beach volleyball and hang out in the water on a hot
day. Believe it or not, this is a beach
I haven’t been to yet.
We
played a few games of beach volleyball, which nobody was much good at, but was
still really fun. The sand makes it so
hard to move, but also cushions you when you inevitably fall on your butt a few
times trying to make a save. And of
course, the best part is always getting in the water after sweating through a
game!
So even
with no plans to begin with, I found some great ways to fill my time this
weekend. This week, it’s back to
homework and studying. The workload is
picking up, so now I need to cut down my leisure time to make room for study
time.
As
always, text me and Facebook message me!
It’s always appreciated! I miss
everyone at home!
Goodnight!
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