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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 19843" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day, everyone.</p><p></p><p>Sharon, I hope your cold improves soon. Ouch! with husband's plantar fasciitis - not nice.</p><p></p><p>LDM - it's good you're getting to enjoy the positive side of all your efforts with difficult child. Bonehead - what an idiot! "At least he's alive"... what are his priorities?!!?</p><p></p><p>Janna, who swiped your family and replaced them with angels? Can you send them over here? Although I think I would miss them...</p><p></p><p>We had an amazing day today. An early start before sunrise - we could see it rising as we drove through the bush road to get to "the mainland". Meanwhile we were listening to the radio - traffic congestion really bad, accidents on the Harbour bridge with people rubbernecking as Queen Mary II made her first visit to Sydney. Apparently there were more watercraft on the Harbour than the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, plus every vantage point was full of people watching this amazing sight. </p><p></p><p>And guess where we had to get to? difficult child 3's school (correspondence head office) for a study day. And it's ONE BLOCK AWAY from where QMII berthed, at Garden Island. (Dunno why they call it "Garden Island" - it has no garden and it's not an island. Actually, now I remember - in the early days of Sydney's colony it WAS an island and they grew the first crops on it. Possums can't swim so the crops were safe - from possums.) Garden Island is Sydney's naval base - all cement and high-tech. They had to move a few warships out of the way to make space for the biggest cruise liner in the world. No other berth in Sydney could take it. And it's too high to go under the Harbour Bridge. And QMII did a 180 degree spin in its own length to get into the berth. Wish we'd seen it, but we were 90 minutes too late.</p><p>So I was worrying that we would have to contend with traffic jams and no parking, but it was OK. We dropped husband off at work, collected some books from him for the school and got there early. difficult child 3 was complaining about being hungry, so we killed two birds with one stone - we walked the one block to Garden Island and then bought some meat pies from Harry's Café de Wheels which is right outside. The place was doing a roaring trade. We sat on the wharfside and ate our pies (difficult child 3 whingeing about wanting to jump in for a swim - at 8.30 am!) as we gazed at the ship. And the ship - it's HUGE! We could only see it end on, but it was very high. In my first glimpse I thought I was looking at another city building. And the entire naval area was full of tour buses, dwarfed by the ship. There must have been over a hundred tour buses or more, filling up with the passengers to go on a tour of the city. They were just driving out as we left to walk back to the school.</p><p></p><p>Later this afternoon the QEII berthed at the International Shipping Terminal. Apparently they exchanged salutes as she passed. We didn't see any of that because we had left the school by 1.30 to head back homewards - some shopping and difficult child 3's drama class. As I type this, QMII is leaving Sydney after a big fireworks display. Apparently on this tour, this is the only time both Cunard ships will be in the same port at the same time. And apart from close on 100% humidity, it was a glorious day in Sydney.</p><p></p><p>There's something special about seeing your own home town from the point of view of visitors. And when it's Sydney - that's really special.</p><p></p><p>I hope you enjoy your Tuesday - ours was definitely different!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 19843, member: 1991"] G'day, everyone. Sharon, I hope your cold improves soon. Ouch! with husband's plantar fasciitis - not nice. LDM - it's good you're getting to enjoy the positive side of all your efforts with difficult child. Bonehead - what an idiot! "At least he's alive"... what are his priorities?!!? Janna, who swiped your family and replaced them with angels? Can you send them over here? Although I think I would miss them... We had an amazing day today. An early start before sunrise - we could see it rising as we drove through the bush road to get to "the mainland". Meanwhile we were listening to the radio - traffic congestion really bad, accidents on the Harbour bridge with people rubbernecking as Queen Mary II made her first visit to Sydney. Apparently there were more watercraft on the Harbour than the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, plus every vantage point was full of people watching this amazing sight. And guess where we had to get to? difficult child 3's school (correspondence head office) for a study day. And it's ONE BLOCK AWAY from where QMII berthed, at Garden Island. (Dunno why they call it "Garden Island" - it has no garden and it's not an island. Actually, now I remember - in the early days of Sydney's colony it WAS an island and they grew the first crops on it. Possums can't swim so the crops were safe - from possums.) Garden Island is Sydney's naval base - all cement and high-tech. They had to move a few warships out of the way to make space for the biggest cruise liner in the world. No other berth in Sydney could take it. And it's too high to go under the Harbour Bridge. And QMII did a 180 degree spin in its own length to get into the berth. Wish we'd seen it, but we were 90 minutes too late. So I was worrying that we would have to contend with traffic jams and no parking, but it was OK. We dropped husband off at work, collected some books from him for the school and got there early. difficult child 3 was complaining about being hungry, so we killed two birds with one stone - we walked the one block to Garden Island and then bought some meat pies from Harry's Café de Wheels which is right outside. The place was doing a roaring trade. We sat on the wharfside and ate our pies (difficult child 3 whingeing about wanting to jump in for a swim - at 8.30 am!) as we gazed at the ship. And the ship - it's HUGE! We could only see it end on, but it was very high. In my first glimpse I thought I was looking at another city building. And the entire naval area was full of tour buses, dwarfed by the ship. There must have been over a hundred tour buses or more, filling up with the passengers to go on a tour of the city. They were just driving out as we left to walk back to the school. Later this afternoon the QEII berthed at the International Shipping Terminal. Apparently they exchanged salutes as she passed. We didn't see any of that because we had left the school by 1.30 to head back homewards - some shopping and difficult child 3's drama class. As I type this, QMII is leaving Sydney after a big fireworks display. Apparently on this tour, this is the only time both Cunard ships will be in the same port at the same time. And apart from close on 100% humidity, it was a glorious day in Sydney. There's something special about seeing your own home town from the point of view of visitors. And when it's Sydney - that's really special. I hope you enjoy your Tuesday - ours was definitely different! Marg [/QUOTE]
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