*yay* Now that I’m done with my assignment (or at least one of them) I’ll see if I can do a double post on Sydney!

This last episode of the adventures of Jay Jay and Jon Jon in the city with that opera house will cover the last two days of our trip in Sydney and after that I’ll post up a picture post of all the photos we took on our trip (that is if I don’t suddenly get lazy and start procrastinating like the natural procrastinator that I am).

Anyways, this episode begins with…

[Friday the 3rd of October]

I woke up late today and Jay Jay and I decided to part ways as he wanted to head over to Bondi beach while I was just plain sleepy and decided to stroll around Chinatown. Nothing much happenned as I decided to hit a nearby internet cafe to play a game of DotA. Had lunch at an awesome Japanese place, which was quite interesting as the sizzling platter arrived on my table with instructions to turn the slab of beef hamburger around as they bring it out raw on the sizzling platter and apparently it cooks there and then. Somehow, it was still a bit raw when I ate it, but it was delicious *yum*.

I headed back to the hotel after that to watch the credit crisis unfold on the news and then Jay Jay got back. We decided to head back out coz apparently there’s a night market going on in Chinatown. So we arrived to see rows of stalls occupying the main street of Chinatown that’s usually deserted. Most of the stalls were selling delicious asian finger foods but there were some selling mobile phone accessories and plush toys.

Pretty fun, I bought some Japanese takoyakis (octopus balls?… well no, octupuses don’t have balls, it’s basically octopus meat rolled into a ball and fried) and Jay Jay bought a roti canai from a Malaysian stall. I noticed after a while that most of the stalls set up were commercial businesses that own restaurants in Chinatown itself and they were probably doing it to advertise their stalls (with all the colourful and pretty signage).

[Saturday the 4th of October]

Ah, the last day of our trip has finally arrived. We woke up, packed our bags and got ready to check out of the hotel, since checkout was at 10am and they didn’t allow us to stay after that. They did allow us to store our luggage at the counter tho, which saved us the trouble of tugging our bags all around with us.

So we went off to walk around part of the city, discovered some fast routes underground to get around the place ^_^! But that was about it. We got back to the hotel at 3pm to grab our stuff and catch the train to the domestic airport.

Once we got there, we checked in and decided to chill around at the food court. Apparently, there was going to be a 30 minute delay on our flight :(. So we played cards and had an early dinner… and bought 6 dozens of Krispy Kreme doughnuts ^_^!!! And coz we’re really really weird, we decided to take pictures of our Krispy Kreme loot in the food court itself, while everyone was watching us :P!

Thus ends our trip to Sydney, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves during the week, and we’ve had heaps of fun tho Jay Jay knows now that I tire out really quickly and I’m probably the worst travelling companion he has had for the many many times I’ve said “Let’s go back to our hotel, I’m tired!!”

Anyways, I’ll end my travel journal for Sydney 08 with a picture of our Krispy Kreme loot :D!

Krispy Kremes *yum yum*