It is Friday night here and we are packing up because we will travel to Melbourne tomorrow night. I am hoping that you will not have a delay Friday so you can finally go on your field trip. I am sure you will have a great day!
I think I left off writing about our incredibly busy Wednesday. After the Sydney Opera House, we walked to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. On exhibit were items from the burial city of the First Emperor of China who was born in 259 BC. You may have heard about the underground city that was found 36 years ago. They have found thousands and thousands of terracotta (clay) soldiers. Seven of those soldiers and two horses were on display. These figures all had such intricate details it was hard to imagine the hours of work each one would have taken to make. We were lucky to get to view these amazing artifacts.
We then went to Sydney Wildlife World which is a small zoo in Darling Harbor, Sydney. As we walked in, there was a zookeeper holding a huge stick insect. He even let some of the students touch it. We saw so many animals: snakes, reptiles, insects, mammals, birds. Some of you know that many of the world’s most dangerous snakes live in Australia. I took a photo of the most poisonous snake, the inland taipan. It was not very big or scarey looking, but looks can be deceiving. On the rooftop of this building were about 6 koala bears sitting in trees. They were so cute! You could pay extra to get your picture taken with one and touch one. None of us did that, but I still got some really great pictures. We also saw lots of kangaroos. We even saw a couple of kangaroos “boxing”.
But wait there’s more! From the animal park, we got on a boat to tour Sydney Harbor. It was really neat to see Sydney from the water. We drove under the Harbor Bridge and on around the opera house. We ended this busy busy day with a trip up the Sydney Tower. For any of you who have been to the top of the John Hancock building in Chicago, this was very similar, but not quite as high. It was a clear day so we had beautiful views from every direction. It was a great way to end this crazy day of sightseeing.
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