DAY 2!

Hello everybody!!

Notice the difference a night of sleep and shower can do for our appearance between today and yesterday's selfie.

After our extremely long plane flight and walking around yesterday, we were both extremely exhausted  and fell asleep at 6pm and did not wake again until 6am!! A full 12 hours of soundless sleep was definitely needed and WOW-Y let me tell you, I feel great! We both then proceeded to lay in bed for a another hour and catch up on the news. There is literally very little important news going on here, but we might as well stay updated. We then got ready and headed off to Darling Harbour, which was only about a 10 minute walk from our hotel.  At the beginning it is almost like a little park with grass in the middle for lounging and a water area and jungle-jim for little kids, which was packed! On the side there were little restaurants and cafes. We stopped at an adorable cafe and had a relaxing breakfast. We both ordered latte's that had the fancy decorative foam on top, along with a little chocolate in the shape of a starfish.

I then ordered a fruit bowl that was so delicious and refreshing. 

Molly ordered a smoked salmon sandwich that looked divine. As she proceeded to tell me, smoked salmon is her "thang".

After breakfast we headed further down way to the actual harbour, where we saw the most adorable and breathtaking view. We sat in the sun for a little while there and just took in the whole thing (we also tried blogging for the first time as you will see in a little bit). On each side of the water there are restaurants, all of which you can sit outside and take in the beautiful scenery. We made our way down one of the sides in our quest to find the Sydney SeaLife Aquarium, which we found at the end. After waiting in line for an hour to get tickets we finally entered the aquarium and it was AH-MAZING! We saw so many sea creatures that I physically could not take pictures of everything, but thankfully Molly and her trusty GoPro captured everything.  Here's a little video she put together for all of you!

After the 2 hour aquarium venture, we were starving and decided to stop by the Helm Bar which served typical ocean/pier cuisine and a variety of cocktails. We both decided to have some fish n' chips and shared a "carafe" of sangria, which was divine!

Once our lunch was finished, we walked around and ended back up at the grassy area near where we had breakfast. We then sat in the sun and people-watched and chatted for 3 hours. Yup, THREE HOURS.  We finished the day off back at the hotel and are now watching the Top 1000 Songs of All Time. We aren't totally sure what we are doing tomorrow, but I think we are meeting up with our friend Megan from our sorority who moved out here with her boyfriend after graduation. Hasta Mañana!

Kendall 

Day 1!

Good afternoon/night/morning! (We don't even know what day it is quite yet)

The flight was long but really not that bad.  I strategically continued to play 3 hour movies (The Hobbit, LOTR, Prisoners, etc..) to make the time go by but I didn't even finish one with out falling asleep - thanks mom and dad for the neck pillow!  Australia is definitely the easiest country to travel to.  Our visa is stored through our passport electronically, and we didn't have to speak to even one customs officer because we have e-passports apparently, cheers!  We hopped in a cab to our hotel, The Great Southern Hotel, stored our luggage and walked down to the harbor.  Mind you, it was only 7am so nothing was open but we got to the Harbor area around 8am and a small flea market was open and some really cute cafes.  We mostly walked around the area and eventually went to the Opera House for a tour.  It was really cool, but we really knew nothing about it and were surprised to learn how recently it was constructed and how modern it is.  We'll definitely go back over there for NYE and maybe brunch at one of the cafes.

Our tour ended around 11:30am (approx. 7:30pm Ohio time) and we were beginning to crash physically and were starving.  We went on a one hour mission to find Nando's and finally succeeded.  Kendall finally had her very first meal at Nando's and I documented it of course.  It was amazing, per usual!  We made it back to the hotel and made no hesitation to jump into our beds!  Ah, the joys of being able to sleep horizontally again!  It's only 4pm here but we are calling it a day and resting up for in attempt to adjust fully to the time difference for the rest of the trip.

Tomorrow we are planning to venture to Darling Harbor and check out the aquarium and anything else around.  FYI to our moms and dads and anyone else, we have WiFi at our hotel so feel free to e-mail/Facebook us!

p.s. The GoPro vlogging was a fail today but hopefully we'll have a video tomorrow!

Molly

Today Molly and I are traveling to Sydney! I literally cannot believe the time has already come after many hours of planning for the last few months. We are currently sitting in the terminal (Gate 57 to be exact) in LAX and are just giddy with excitement! We are about to board, but I will leave you all with these beautiful pictures of us before we handed over our precious luggage as well as Molly with the apple of her eye, her GoPro.

Cheers!
Kendall