Last Ones Standing

Maybe a wall full of windows isn’t the best thing especially when the sun rises from that side of the building and wakes you up at 6 AM! But I didn’t mind so much since it was an absolute amazing view and didn’t keep me up for long. I had to soon wake up anyways to get ready and walk into the city to meet Myriah (my friend from UNCC) and her mom. They had done a 10 day road trip down the East Coast with Sydney being their last stop. We grabbed brekkie at Harry’s Café de Wheels and then headed to the markets to all get some souvenir shopping done. Riley and I had never been to the markets that early before so it was a pleasant surprise to see the aisles not completely crowded. Riley met up with us after a while, just in time for Myriah and her mom to leave and head back to Canberra. After I finally got done with most of my shopping we headed to the storage unit to sort out the rest of our stuff and get organized for the last few days we have in Sydney. It wasn’t stressful, just a little sad since we do know our trip is coming to an end. We can’t stop thinking and talking about American food though so I think we’re ready to be home. It probably doesn’t help that most of our friends are already back in the States though, meaning we’re the last ones standing. But we’re just going about our usual Sydney business by doing our errands, cooking dinner and going to trivia. Neill agreed to go to two trivia nights this week since it was our last week and we immediately agreed. It had been a while since we’d seen him so we were more than ready to catch up. Along the way we had actually noticed a rather long line outside this yogurt place and had assumed that they were giving out free ice cream, or some type of deal. We hoped that it would still be going on after trivia and during a break we asked Neill to look it up on his phone. He was really excited about potentially having free yogurt and suggested that we leave early from trivia to catch it in time! We didn’t complain since this hotel didn’t exactly have our favorite trivia. Believe it or not, this yogurt place was actually giving out free frozen and encouraging people to get lots of it! Usually we’re not into the whole taking an over amount than what is acceptable but after we found out there was a contest to see who could have the biggest stack of ice cream we didn’t feel so bad. I mean we didn’t go overboard but we definitely got way more than we usually can when we have to be careful of the weight. Riley’s monstrous stack of ice cream and toppings would have actually costs me over $13, with mine following at $7. We were both pretty proud of that and so happy to finally get some chocolate candies that we hadn’t been able to get while here since it is rather expensive in the stores. We of course had to walk home with our yogurts in hand and ended up freezing but it was totally worth it! We just relaxed the night away with Par talking about everything and anything it seemed. I don’t know how we’ve managed to get three really great hosts in a row!