Monday was a day to get our bearings. We walked over to Darling Harbor and visited a visitor’s center and wandered around the harbor. It reminds me of Baltimore in a lot of ways. We bought See Sydney passes good for 2 days. Purchasing the See Sydney passes allow you to visit various popular attractions without additional cost. The two day pass cost us $119 each (Australian dollars, so about $90 US each). I will put the cost of things we do with the card in parenthesis throughout the blog so you can get an idea of attraction cost and card value.

On to the Maritime Museum. It’s free! I was more impressed with it than I thought I would be. It had the basic boat and other maritime stuff, but it also had information about the people who came over to Australia via ship and the native Aborigines they encountered. The temporary exhibit was about Vikings. Now that is interesting. We definitely got lucky with that one. We didn’t go onto the boats you have to pay to board as we can do that later with our See Sydney passes. We walked on to the area known as The Rocks and saw the museum about the area. We walked around under the Sydney Bridge and then started back towards our hotel. We stopped in at Krispy Kreme to buy some doughnuts. We have missed those in China! For dinner we settled on The Hard Rock Café. It was glorious, familiar food. Australia has a lot of seafood (yuck!) and Chinese food (which I can get in China!).