Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. We went to the Sydney Aquarium on V-Day and saw quite a bit. The highlights of our visit were watching the seals have lunch, staring at a crocodile while it did absolutely nothing, gazing at some of the most gigantic Sting Ray’s ever, two platypus’ at play, and the giant nurse sharks. Unfortunately, the batteries in our camera died and we did not get to take any pictures of the sharks. The aquarium has really cool underwater tunnels that allow you to see the fish, sharks, and seals swim around. It was kind of scary at first because you realize that there’s all this water pressure on top of the tunnel. I mentioned that it reminded me of Jaws where the underwater tunnel gave way and Matt immediately told me that we were not discussing that movie any further. Alas, we emerged unscathed and moved on to the next exhibit, which was the touchable underwater starfish. I made Matt touch them first because I was a little apprehensive to touch such a thing. I tell you what, they really look like they would be soft and tender but they’re actually hard as a rock! Yup, Matt and I learned a lot that day. We actually figured out the difference between an Eagle Ray and a Sting Ray, the difference between an alligator and a crocodile (other than freshwater and saltwater), that the sharks we were viewing were actually 25% smaller (whoa!), and the difference between a male and a female shark. Now I emphasize that this last fact is really not going to help us much if we were to be attacked but at least we would know now.
We then went and had linner (lunch/dinner) at a harbour side restaurant in Darling Harbour. Unfortunately, the food was only sub par, but at least the view was good and the atmosphere better.
The previous day Matt found out that he had finally gotten a job. With a mixture of relief and sadness, Matt has now secured a position as a telemarketer. In much the same way as a person might describe themselves as a diplomat or a philanthropist, Matt seems to enjoy his new title as a Telemarketer. In all seriousness, we are just happy that there will now be income coming in so we can stop spending all of our travel funds here in Sydney.
Besides for the aquarium the highlights of the week are that I might finally be getting a good environmental job through a recruiter. The recruiter thinks there are at least 3 places that I have a good shot getting a job at. Cross your fingers! The other highlight is that Matt made his debut acting performance in a Jim Beam commercial last night. Our roomies/friends are cameramen and they needed an assistant/helper for the night shoot (7:30 pm to 5:00 am). Matt went and did that and ended up being asked to be a “background dancer at the party” during one of the scenes. No doubt this is a sign from above that our luck is slowly changing. J
The funniest thing happened on Wednesday night when we went to a “very dirty bar” that had karaoke night for our roomies birthday. I ended up getting carded at the door. The bouncer didn’t think I was 18! Needless to say the birthday boy talked the guy into letting me in. Sigh, to be 18 again.
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