Sydney!

Sydney is awesome! Friday night I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The bridge climb takes you to the very top, which has amazing views of the city. I went at night, so the city was all lit up. The harbour bridge is the main on in the city, and is where they do the fireworks show on New Years. There is a festival going on in Sydney, called Vivid Sydney, and is a music and arts festival. As part of the festival, they had the Sydney Opera House lit up with lots of colors, which was so cool. On Saturday, Amy and I took the Hop On Hop Off bus tour of the city. The whole tour takes an hour and a half, and goes to around 30 top exhibits. We rode the bus through the whole tour to learn a little about the city, then got off on the second round. We stopped at Darling Harbour and went to the Sydney Aquarium.

On Sunday, we went to the Hillsong Curch, which is an awesome church and where Hillsong United got it's start. The service, and especially the music, where amazing. Sunday afternoon it rained and was cold, so we walked around a little in an area of the city called The Rocks, but didn't venture out too much. We did also walk across the Harbour Bridge to get more pictures of the Opera House and the city. Monday we walked around more, and went to the Opera House, but didn't go inside. The Opera House was pretty cool, it looks exactly like in the pictures. We then took a ferry across the harbour to Manly Beach, which has a very cute shopping center and beach.

Monday night we took the overnight bus to Melbourne, so that's where we are now. It was a 12 hour bus ride, leaving Sydney at 7pm. We are now in Melbourne, where we will be staying for the next two and a half months!