This morning we went to Glebe Markets with the family. We had a great time browsing the stalls and got gozleme for breakfast at one of the stalls: a kind of tortilla with cheese, spinach, and chicken in it, yum. Dad enthusiastically took pictures of a bin chicken, haha. Mom wanted to wander around the market a bit more, but Dad wasn't into it (Dad's favorite slogan: "look, look, don't buy"), and we were on a tight schedule again, so we headed downtown. On the way, we quite accidentally bumped into Cynthia! A few brief introductions, but we had a bus to catch, and Cynthia was on her way to the market. In the city center, we went to the Museum of Sydney, where we watched part of a great film (it turned out to be over an hour long; we thought it was fifteen minutes, so we walked out at one point) about Aboriginal people and colonialism and how things were back then. The moral of the story: don't steal other people's land and just behave like a decent human being; you're not worth more than anyone else. The film showed how the colonists invaded the country and tried to establish contact with the Aboriginal people. In an attempt to learn the language, one colonist kidnapped an Aboriginal person\u2014not exactly the way to do it, huh? There were also colonists who murdered Aboriginal people. And of course, the European diseases they brought with them caused a whole epidemic :(<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the museum, we walked to Circular Quay, where we got an Aussie beef pie and ate it in the Royal Botanical Gardens overlooking the Opera House and the bridge! It was beautiful there, and the bride and groom thought so too; we saw at least four of them. We walked around the gardens; beautiful plants! I'll have to go back again, as we only saw a small part, and it's quite large. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afterward, I walked to Darling Harbour and found a place to eat: pizza. Around 8:15 PM, we arrived at Darling Harbour again for the weekly, free fireworks show. Well, I thought it would be a fireworks show, but apparently they'd changed it to a drone show this week and the next few weeks, and it's an hour later\u2026 It was a bit chilly waiting outside in the evening. My friends were there too, so we got to know each other a bit while waiting for the show, which was nice! Cailene arrived a bit late because she had just gotten back from her flight from Melbourne. It was so sweet of her to come and meet my family :D. The 10-minute drone show was fun to watch, but after that, it was time to go home. Everyone was tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n