Last weekend we took Dad to Sydney for a real flash 3-day celebration of his passing the 3/4 century+1 birthday. There are loads of pictures of Sydney on the blog, so here's a few different ones. I like the look of the city at night, buildings like the Town Hall look great with the lights giving them a glow. Of course, it is ideal if you can sit with a great building in the background and a cocktail in the foreground. The building is the Queen Victoria Building, a restored heritage shopping mall, and the cocktails are in the Glass Brasserie, one of the top restaurants in Sydney (we fed the man steak, of course). Our hotel had an interesting spiral sculpture in the foyer and if I could have found a way to get to it I would have loved to tackle the 4-story climb to its top. The Oldies spend a bit of time shopping. I usually go with Dad as his idea of shopping involves hobby shops, much more interesting to small bears than the shops Mum goes to. Hobbyco is our favourite one in Sydney. We usually stock up on plastic kits, but have hit the stage where we have built all the interesting ones. So we started our collection of 1/76 scale fire engines. There is always something new to find in "the Big Smoke" and we thoroughly spoiled the Old Bloke.
Labels: models, New South Wales, Sydney
# posted by Bart Bear @ 11:54 am
