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Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre

Today is our last full day in Sydney. Yesterday we discovered that the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Center is only a 10 minute walk from our hotel.

Catherine really wanted to have a swim in the 50 meter pool so she had a light breakfast (I had the usual meat fest!) & we walked over to the center. I dropped my girl off for her swim 🙂 & I headed back to the hotel to get organized for the rest of the day.

Photo below copied from the internet.

The was no place for me to sit & watch Catherine swim so I headed out for another walk along Darling Harbour shoreline & we met up later back at the hotel. She said it was the best pool of the trip – salt water, perfect temperature, not too crowded!

Next on our agenda was to take the tour bus back to the Sydney Opera House area. We wanted to do some more exploring of the nearby area called “The Rocks”. This is a historic neighborhood with well preserved buildings & lots of history.

This afternoon we took a guided tour of the Opera House. It is an an amazing facility.

Unfortunately we were not allowed to take any photos inside the two main performance theaters but we were given a great tour of them.

We were hoping that we could attend a symphony concert while we were here but everything was sold out. However, we did manage to get some tickets to a comedy play “The Lyin Queen”. Promo photo below copied from the internet.

It was a hilarious spoof/mashup of 3 movies – The Lion King, Jurassic Park & King Kong. Lots of local, national & international comic jabs. We haven’t laughed this hard in a long time!

After the show we enjoyed a couple of “last views” of the Harbour Bridge

& the Opera House.

Back to our hotel for our last sleep there. We can’t believe how fast this past 5 days have gone by.

Tomorrow we board the cruise ship for the last phase of our down under adventures.

Cheers!