T minus 5, 4, 3, 2, chshh

The months have continued to add up and we have now been dating for 2 years and 1 month (yeah we count each month). We like to celebrate the small things. My day started off with another skype session with my family, which now includes Alex since he is home for the summer! I think I kept them laughing with all my Australian stories, or probably just my off comments that I am known for. Riley and Alex were reunited and can you guess where their conversation ended up – bird watching. These guys now have another shared interest. Our plans for the day were going to consist of checking out the famous Luna Park on the Sydney Harbour, but I’m glad we looked at the website before we left since it was actually closed during the week. We had to quickly think of something else to do before the afternoon got away from us. We had been contemplated, or rather putting off, buying this combo pass that would get us into five main attractions in Sydney – The Eye Tower, Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife, Manly Wildlife, and the Madame Tussauds (wax museum). We figured what better day than today and even better since we found an online deal that we couldn’t pass up. That meant we were going to the Sydney Aquarium today! We had been told by one of the guys at trivia night that it wasn’t anything spectacular and he walked through in 20 minutes, but I don’t know if he was running or not because we ended up spending over 3 hours in there! The place was a lot bigger than we thought and have two tunnels that you could walk through with the manatee, stingrays, and fish in the first one, followed by a shark tunnel. These tunnels were absolutely amazing since the sea creatures would seriously swim right over you or next to you giving you a great close up view. We’ll let the pictures do the talking, giving you a mini tour of what we saw!

Platapus was the first creature we saw. But seemed he liked to get stuck inbetween the tree logs. 

Fish striking a pose while in the light. 

Ever seen a long-necked turtle? Well you have now!

Nemo didn't want to come out!

Upside down Jellyfish!

Just the New Zealand Giant Crab lookin' Creepy as always!

Little baby Nemos that were that were about a half an inch long!

Such an intimidating Leafy Sea Dragon.

Fish for dinner?

Pucker-up baby! 

There is a fish in here somewhere... can you spot him?

Lauren with the Japanese Spider crab. Don't think it looks big..?

How about now! That's the size of its legs!

Taking a picture of someone taking a picture of the manatee. Oh how they are so popular!

Did you say it was picture time? 

Me almost picking the manatee's nose....

Lauren definitely picking the manatee's nose! 

We thought it could be the great white, but it definitely wasn't.

True synchronized swimmers.

Do you hear the music..? Baa ba (Jaws theme song)

They never wanted to take a reguar picture!

Just chillin on top of the glass! If you think about it, his 'noses' and his mouth  make the shape of a face ;)

Dinner awaited us since we were making our ever famous and delicious barbeque sandwiches! We had another trivia night planned at a pub we had been to last week called Kelly on King which had the video trivia. Neil was supposed to join us but he said he was too exhausted from work to make it. We decided that we were going to go have a shot at it anyways since we could have a chance at winning the airplane contest at least. (Riley had been practicing) I now know why we were meant to go to that pub because lo and behold we saw Zey! We met Zey and her boyfriend Chris in Fiji on the main island and then saw them while island hopping as well even though they hadn’t planned on doing that. She had told us that she was moving to Sydney in a few weeks, but with Sydney being so big we never thought twice about running into her. Funny thing is, she doesn’t even live nearby, rather in North Sydney and her new work friends were going to this pub that was 20 minutes away and she figured she’d tag along. None of us could believe that we ran into each other and we knew we had to exchange numbers at this point since we couldn’t test our luck anymore! I really think its fate that we’re meant to keep running into each other for some reason. We had a great time catching up with her and sharing the rest of our Fiji stories that happened in the absent of each other. We unfortunately left the night empty handed and defeated. Our team name had been ‘Hoping for 10’ and we actually exceeded that by getting 14.5 points! We were pretty proud of that!