travel diary — day 220

In australia, photography stuff, travel on 25 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, brighton house, brisbane, bus, car, ceremony, circular quay, craig, expensive, george street, harbour bridge, hostel, internet, inyoung, ipswich, meat pie, megan, opera house, photography, rugby league, sydney, sydney harbour, train, wedding with no comments

day 216 — we washed craig’s car and did some shop­ping. we vis­ited megan and while we chat­ted i rearranged her massive cd col­lec­tion. it was fun because we kept giv­ing her shit about her choices in music.

in the after­noon we drove to the cake shop to pick up the cakes for the wed­ding, fol­lowed by din­ner, xbox and sleep.

day 217 — craig and inyoung’s wed­ding day. we got up early and washed the wed­ding car which was on loan from a fam­ily friend. craig and i went to megan’s house to get ready for the wed­ding. we then drove down to ‘brighton house’ which is where the wed­ding would take place.

i was pho­to­grapher for the day and walked around get­ting some shots. i took pho­tos dur­ing the wed­ding … which was a really nice garden cere­mony … and got some more pho­tos after­wards. i had the bride and groom pose and we did some wed­ding por­trait­ure. the whole day was really nice and i was very proud to be there as part of the wedding.

day 218 — craig and inyoung headed to the gold coast, tak­ing inyoung’s fam­ily with them, for a small hol­i­day. i stayed in ipswich and spent my time relax­ing. i didn’t have inter­net, so i was reduced to drink­ing beer and watch­ing the nrl grand final. lol

day 219 — in the morn­ing i fin­ished pack­ing a small bag of stuff and jumped on the train to the city. i got off at roma street and headed upstairs to the inter­city bus ter­minal. i man­aged to get an after­noon bus to sydney but had to wait about two hours for departure.

hav­ing done my fair share of long haul bus rides, i always hate going long dis­tance by bus. but the trip wasn’t too bad — at least the bus didn’t stop all the time and there was a toi­let on board. i man­aged to get a little bit of sleep.

day 220 — i arrived in sydney sore and tired from the bus trip. i checked into a hostel and was incred­ibly annoyed at the cost of hos­tels. it was the same kind of price i’d paid in tokyo … i def­in­itely hadn’t expec­ted to pay so much in aus­tralia. hav­ing been back in oz for a few days, i was start­ing to get an under­stand­ing of how expens­ive aus­tralia had become.

i dumped my gear in my dorm and took off down george street towards sydney har­bour. it was still early in the day, so i figured i should make the most of it. i walked along the har­bour bridge and then down around cir­cu­lar quay to the opera house. i took a lot of pho­tos and star­ted walk­ing back. on the way i had a pie and beer (which was fantastic).

i was pretty tired from the bus trip, so i had a short nap in the hostel, then went and checked email. i had a small meal and was still tired, so i headed back to bed for the night.

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