42nd Street Musical...

We (Anika, Janina and I) went to the musical 42nd street which was quite good. It was put on by 3rd year students at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts). Afterwards we went to Little Creatures..oh I'm going to miss that place..for their amazing hamburgers.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(musical)

The Regal Theater

On the train to Fremantle for LC's

The warning says "The lucky ones are hit with a $200 fine."

Anika, Hanna, Janina, Alex, Me, Nilesh & Eddie having desert after our wonderful burgers at Little Creatures.

Belgium Beer Café!

Unit 12 (and Janina) made an appearance at the Belgium Beer Café in Perth CBD. Funny story however, I was the only one to drink a beer. The beer was good as well as the food.

Website: http://www.belgianbeer.com.au

Stella!
"This beer is the reference beer for the real beer connoisseur"

Yum!

Alex grabbing the beer off the wall. :D

Manneken-pis
I'll just let Wikipedia explain the legend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis

The "Perth Eye"...it's actually pretty small.

Some Perthian Palms by the Swan River.

Black Swans...fake ones. :)

Anika at the Bell Tower doing a dance?

Have you done your laundry?

I was there...

Pretty cool back street.

Well that's the longest post I've done in a while. We're heading to Kings Park today! more pictures to follow... I leave Perth in a week! I'm both happy and sad. I know my return home will involve drinking beer with Logan.

AQWA: Aquarium of Western Australia

AQWA was pretty cool, I went with Angiolina. We did lunch in Hillary's Boat Harbour at The Breakwater which was a pretty nice place, food was good and so was the view and the weather. Then off to AQWA with full stomachs, so many cool things like Cuttlefish, Jellyfish, Salt Water Crocodiles, Nemo (Clown Fish), Tortoises, to mention a few...I'm just going to post a bunch of small pictures because I can't decide..they're all so colourful.

Website: http://www.aqwa.com.au/

SHARKS! duh-da duh-da duh-da...

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Australian words for the week

Chewy -> Gum

Sydney!

Sydney is the largest city in Australia. It has a population of 4.34 million and covers 12,145 km2. It is 3970km from Perth where I am studying. Sydney is the 15th most expensive city to live in the world. I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be, I actually liked Melbourne a lot more. Don't get me wrong, Sydney does have it's features, but it felt like a really big city, everything was very busy and the transit system is very dirty. Maybe I'm just being spoiled in Perth.

The first night I got a really bad taste of Sydney, some aboriginal was pretty rude along with the transit worker who couldn't speak loud enough because his chin was in the way. We met up with our flatmates and Anand's peeps and that improved the situation.

Website: http://www.sydney.com.au/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney

We stayed at the Wake Up! Sydney Central hostel. We got a 2 bed room for Anand and I to share, it was fine but I think I'm over the age of hosteling it. Even though we had our own room the atmosphere just wasn't for me, not to mention that I think the place was suffering from a mold problem or something like that. I guess you get what you pay for. Hotel next time!

The morning after we arrived we did the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb! It was pretty awesome. It was opened in 1932 and weighs 39,000 tons. It's span is 1,650 feet and the summit is 440 feet above mean sea level. It didn't feel that high but we were secured to the bridge and there were stairs. The view was amazing. We couldn't take cameras up, so this is the only photo we have - the rest is memories.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge at night from the Circular Quay. Notice the lights out? They've been like that for over a month.

Janina, Me and Anika checking out the Opera House.

The Opera House!

Our shadows on the Opera House!

A pool of water at Darling Harbour, the city in its reflection.

Darling Harbour!

View from Swetta's balcony in Bondi Junction. We stayed with her for the weekend, thank GOD. I had enough of that hostel by then.

Ribs at Hurricaines Grill & Bar in Darling Harbour. I highly recommend them.

Anika and I at Bungalo 8 where we tried to all go clubbing. Anand didn't get in. We weren't there long but it was fun!

Kangaroo! You eat it rare or else it's too chewy. Pretty tough meat. I would pick an Alberta Steak over it anyday! I Love Alberta Beef!

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Melbourne!

W e arrived in Melbourne around 9:00pm on Saturday, April 11th. Falen picked us up at the airport and took us back to her place to drop our things off. Then we went out for some awesome Italian pizza and found the Starbucks!!! mmmm how I missed Starbucks!

Shot from the plane to Melbourne

My room in Melbournes at Falens place...so Victorian.

Awesome Italian Lamb Pizza

Ahhh Starbucks at last!

A cool building in the city.

Anand & Falen, We went for some real Sushi on Sunday..along with a little bit of Sake.

After this we went to the Art Gallery....I'm leaving that out for another post.

Rock! Bang!...You had to be there. In the evening we went to see the comedian Kevin Brennan since the Melbourne International Comedy Festival was on!

I'm skipping Monday..it'll get it's own post too..

A cool shot of the city and the train station, we just wandered around the city Tuesday morning before we took off to Sydney. Eureka Tower in the background...hey, why don't we go to the top of that?

Us chillin with Starbucks!

Then to the top of Eureka Tower..88 floors up!

The wonderful view.

The fake little Eiffel tower (or something..) in the front and the home of the Australian Open in the background.

A Tram and Horses..two main means of transportation in Melbs.

Anand getting searched for the Second time on the way to Sydney. Good thing he bet me a free coffee if he go searched again.

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Australian words for the week

Budgie Smugglers -> Speedos
Winker -> Signal light