Sydney, Australia – March 1

the Bridge

Clear, 30 degrees – the heat is back!

Today is the third of four transition days we will experience – transitions days are when some passengers

disembark, and others embark. As remaining passengers, transition days are

Opera house

glorious – we get up as usual without having the task of getting on a flight or any other travel ahead of us. We learn that more passengers got off than got on – there are now about 450 passengers out of a possible 700.

Moving actually was on our agenda today as we moved rooms, or someone else moved rooms for us. Everything went extremely smoothly

Bridge and Opera House

– I was impressed. As we had been told, everything would be moved for us – and it was, most things were even put in similar spots to those we had them in originally.

When we returned to the ship all we had to do was get a new room card and go to our new room. Once we got there the room had already been ‘turned down’ for the night, so the curtains were closed…I couldn’t wait to fling them open to see the BALCONY! And what a balcony it was!!! Yup, good decision. The room is very spacious – almost too spacious…

some of Sydney's priciest mansions

old room 300 square feet, new room 630 square feet! We have to give a big

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shout out to our travel agent for facilitating this upgrade for us.

This morning we boarded a smaller boat for a harbour cruise. It was a glorious morning to cruise around Sydney’s harbour seeing and hearing about various buildings that make up Sydney’s skyline, harbour front mansions and beaches. Sydney’s harbour is a very busy place – we see boats from the smallest point A to point B boats, to mega yachts, to cruise ships bigger than ours, not to mention sea planes and helicopters.

Sydney skyline

The rest of the day was spent with one of Chris’ old friends who has lived in Sydney for over 20 years and his wife. It was great to spend time with locals, wandering around Sydney’s popular areas, having a beer here and a beer there.

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