Day 13-14: Sydney

We’ve spent the last couple days walking around Sydney exploring with Hunter, Farnaz, and Kendra. They’ve been really generous (again) and let us crash in their room at the Sydney Marriott, which has a nice pool, hot tub, and sauna, plus access to the executive lounge, featuring complimentary breakfast and evening snacks and drinks! So we’ve been living it up for a few days, walking around town and meeting up with various friends, including Hunter’s cousin Aaron.

Sydney is definitely beautiful, wrapped around an enormous harbor like it is, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of soul to it. Tons of shopping (the girls have been having a blast window shopping, and Farnaz and Kendra were doing some Christmas shopping as well) all throughout the city center, but you have to go a long ways to get into neighborhoods that have more of a feel to them.