Thursday, January 3, 2013

Sydney for New Years


I was so happy when we finally got to Sydney, because this is the place I most wanted to go to. I LOVE CITIES! And plus it was New Years Eve! We had dinner at a place near the harbor at the Rocks that used to be a prison. Sydney used to be a place when convicts were sent from England because there was no room in the homeland. Eventually the mayor did a social experiment to see if they gave the convicts land, if they would behave better. They did and years later we have the Sydney we know today. Now Sydney is the sixth richest country with a GDP of almost a trillion dollars and having only 22 million people and being the fifth largest country it isn’t that hard. During our stay we visited a couple museums. My favorite being the modern art ones, which never fail to impress or surprise me. We were of course were not going to miss the Sydney Opera house. Opened by Queen Elizabeth 1973, the beautiful design of the sails was designed by Jørn Utzon With more than one million self cleaning tiles, an 10,000+ pipe organ, and concert hall with 2769 seats, this massive building took 16 years and 102 million dollars to build. I was so happy to see the beautiful building I had always heard about. But to me, what was more beautiful, were the giraffes at the zoo! I have an obsession and I think my brother and I took around 1,000 photos just at that section of the zoo. And of course I couldn’t leave a city like this without paying my dues to Topshop and Zara! 

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