Friday 16th January Sydney

Taxi to Park Regis, $15, including a free lecture from an 80yo bloke, just married for the 3rd time, hed found Jesus years ago, informing me that the Greek and Hebrew numbers/letters, indicated another 'devil' was on the way, as there was a '666' somewhere !!!, I suggested Donald Trump, but apparently not, I tipped him, to celebrate his 3 day old, recent marriage.
Met the Mine Roaders, checked out our hotel, admired the 'dog bum' statue hanging out of our wall !!, A Subway sanger, then Off to Canberra for them.
Steph and I had a bit of a relax, then off to Circular Quay, by train, how evolved, you could just swipe any credit card, no useless Monkey Card !!.
Just got Steph to jump through turnstile with me, probably illegal, but you know what us tourists are like !!.
Walked round the Rocks, Carnival Splendor parked, where our ship, Anthem will be parked tomorrow.
Tonight a taxi down to thr rocks again, to experience 'True Crime" walking tour, hope its not the thing of nightmares, but as its school holidays, nearly everything else booked out.
A taxi down to Dawes point ( under the bridge) driver had no idea, we walked around for miles, nearly given up hope, when "Ryan" tour guide, called, and directed us to meeting point, obviously used to lost people wandering aimlessly.
A mob of us began, a beautiful balmy evening, fortunately a slight breeze, which would come in handy, drying the sweat as we walked up Observatory/Flagstaff/Hanging Hill, at the end of the tour !!
Ryan ( or David, if you didnt like the tour !!) was amazing, so knowledgable, giving out facts and figures, with no artifical prompting
1. Starcrossed lovers (Baker and Knitter) 2. Hanging Mannequin 3. Fake hangman 4. "Filthy Curr" murderer. 5. Tatooed arm in shark 6. Hero of Waterloo, smuggling grog up and kidnapped men down. 7. Brother stabbed with butter knife, after accusing sister of giving him plague. 8. Observatory Hill/Flagstaff/ Hanging Hill - place to take your first date/ family picnic - Ghost train ride at Luna Park - where 7 ppl dies ( ride never reopened. 9. Nurses walk laneway - men lured in and robbed.
Grand finale - back down at Circular quay- servant killed his master , as he 'didnt respect him" !, body into a box, tried to bribe a coxswain to dump in ocean, cops called, to arrest him after the box, "not quite pork" was leaking the appropriate body fluids. !!
No happy endings here !!
While this was happening, there was a noisy birthday party, at the Quay, an RC ship turned up, Very surprised, as it turned out to be an early arrival of our ship, Anthem of the Seas !!!, and then the ambulances arrived, so some unfortunate needed a medivac off the ship, so we were lucky enough to see her sail in, beautiful sight.
We finished the evening with Royal Copenhagen icecream, convienently located at the entrance to the train station, so we jumped on and went home, past Wynyard, and out at our stop, Town Hall station, a short walk back to our place, around the corner
Looking forward to boarding tomorrow, hoping they will let us board earlier than our scheduled time of 11.30amRead more