Lock gave us bad karma!

Today was kind of a sad one – it was our last full day in Sydney. We woke up and decided that since it was our last day, we would check off a couple things off of our to Australia bucket list. First box to check was the ‘put lock on Sydney Harbour Bridge’, which we have been meaning to do, but we just kept putting off. Earlier in the week  I suggested that we watch the sunrise off of the Harbour Bridge, so Lauren and I both thought to ourselves, why not do both at once? So, that’s exactly what we did. We headed out to the bridge bright and early at around 6:30 to find that the sky was beginning to light up which gave us a little scare since we thought the sun wasn’t supposed to rise until 7 AM. Like always, we were early, but we weren’t mad because that meant we were getting the full experience of the sunrise on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. About 20 minutes after we got to the bridge, the sun finally came up and let me tell you, that sucker was bright! Since it was blinding our eyes, and probably everyone else’s, we thought that it would be the perfect time to put the lock on the bridge! Just to make sure, I had Lauren cover my six so that we wouldn’t get caught since we both thought it was illegal to do. The mission was successful and we went undetected in putting the lock on, which faced outward towards the Opera House so it would be able to see the sunrise everday. Soon after, we made a bolt for it just in case anyone saw us (I know what y’all are thinking  - we’re such rebels!). Since that was the only thing that we were planning to do in the morning, we headed back to Par’s place to catch up on some more z’s before getting ready for the day and checking some more stuff off our bucket list. Our naps didn’t last very long because we both knew that we needed to be up and packing since it was our last day at Par’s. Lauren and I were both sad about this because Par was one of our best couchsurfing host ever! Once we were packed, we had to head off to meet our last couchsurfing host, Dave. He wasn’t far from Par’s place at all, so lugging our stuff from point A to point B wasn’t very difficult. We were supposed to meet him at 10:30, but since he was leaving a work meeting, he was ten minutes late. Yet, he soon turned the corner and we were off to see his place. Dave was a really cool guy, not because he let us stay at his place on a night’s notice, but he was funny and just really easy to talk to. From the start, he invited us to go have drinks at a couchsurfer’s event, which we were happy about, but since we had already planned our last board games night with Neill, we had to decline. After we got the beginning talk out of the way, we had to quickly leave to go see an IMAX movie, which was going to be Despicable Me 2! We rushed down Kings Wharf passing people left and right. It was 11:20 now and the movie started at 11:30, so you know we were hurrying! Once we finally got to the IMAX we were informed on some bad news: we couldn’t see Despicable Me 2 because it hadn’t been 10 days since it was released. We were super mad because on the website, it did not have NFT (no free tickets – or the vouchers that we had). Filled with fury, we headed back up to the counter and tried once more by showing them the website, but were once again unsuccessful. After being rejected twice, Lauren and I both agreed that we didn’t like the IMAX anymore. Plus we were not spending our tickets on ‘Flight of the Butterflies’, which was the only movie he could offer us to see. Not knowing what to do with our tickets, we contemplated for a while until we came to our decision to put them on gumtree. Within the first hour, we had a couple people that were really interested, one that wanted to meet us at the markets, where we were heading next. Once we made it to the markets, our buyer pushed back the time even further, so we decided to do a little shopping while we waited. During our shop, Lauren got a text saying that he had an emergency so he couldn’t come. We both thought that he just didn’t want them anymore, but we gave him the benefit of the doubt. Since we had no more buyers, we decided to go to wooly’s to pick up a pizza for dinner.  As we were eating dinner, Dave came back from work at 5:30 which he said was early and invited us to drinks once more. Again, we had to say no and we began to feel bad, but it was our last board games night so we couldn’t pass it up! After pizza, we grabbed our things and headed towards Neill’s place, practically running since we had talked too long with Dave. When we arrived, he seemed sad and we weren’t sure if it was because it was the last night or not. Half way through though he began to lighten up and become in the board game spirit. Our last night consisted of 7 Wonders, Ticket to Ride and Cluedo (which I was the defending champion). We had a blast on all the games, but especially Ticket to Ride. There was a girl from Fiji who actually joined us in our game which was really cool! It was time for our last game, which is always Cluedo. I had been the champion for quite some time, but I was willing to risk my title. The first game ended pretty quick with myself guessing the room, weapon and perpetrator correctly. I don’t think Neill wanted to end on him losing, so he enticed me to push my luck for one more game. I should have never done it because Neill won that game, and Neill hasn’t won since our first board game session! I was slightly sad, but was willing give up my title. It was sad that it was our last game night though as well as last night in Sydney. Another buyer for the tickets was supposed to meet us at UniLodge but had been pushing back the meet up time as well. We were about to throw in the towel when he agreed that he could meet near King’s Wharf in about 30 minutes. We said our goodbyes to Neill and headed down George Street only to wait for the buyer for another 30 minutes! Just as we were texting him to say we had to leave his wife shows up and it was a done deal! It was a shame that we couldn’t see an IMAX movie, but at least we got some of our money back!