YEsterday, we went to Paddy's market near chinatown. It is in a huge building with hundreds of 15 x 15 ft stalls with all kinds of 'stuff'. We bought some tea towels, a couple pairs of shorts and a polo shirt, but could have done more had luggage weight not been an issue.
Afterwards, we caught the monorail to Queen VIctoria building, a beautiful, large sandstone edifice that contains some very high end shops, Dolce and Gabbana, Ferragamo, etc. We visited a souvenire shop for some baby 'Ugg's' for Peggy's beautician and had a nice lunch. Peggy visited the washroom and came out all agog about the red leather couches and marble countertops.
Marc and Barbara returned to teh condo and we checked out as they took us to 'Home World', the worlds largest display village on a large tract of land that home builders use to exhibit their designs and finish. There are over 180 homes which are open to the public and ultimately will be sold off to form a new subdivision. We walked through several and it gave us a good sense of the costs in Sydney for constructing homes of varying fit and finish.
http://www.homeworld.com.au/index.php
We returned to Rosemont Manor for happy hour and enjoyed the company of M&B's cruise companions, Brit and Jennifer, who had just returned home from the transatlantic cruise aboard the Emerald Princess. We enjoyed a fine meal of BBQ's steak and sausages, Corn on the cob, asparagas and salad and washed it all down with some good Australian wine. WE discussed a possible 18 day future cruise with an itineraries starting in Buenos Aries and ending in Santiago, Chile. HAL ($6399) includes a cruise of the Chilean fjords where the Princess ship, the Star ($3045) is too large for that transit. Both are in January 2011, so our RCI credit might work for one of them.
The Star Princess sails at 9PM tonight, and we now look forward to that leg of our adventure.
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