In my memory, Hyde Park was always
associated to the Fire of Dance with Michael Flately. I had watched in for
several times on TV and it would be really exciting just to be there in person.
We skipped breakfast just to catch a glimpse
of the first sunshine at the park. Hyde was full of amazing plants and loads of
singers were showing off their wondrous voices on the boulevards. I even saw
bride and groom taking their photos along the lake. However I didn’t see any
part of the park that could be linked to the one with the Fire Dance to my
knowledge.
There was a mid-eastern guy by the fountain
creating gigantic bubbles with his very own special equipment and they would
fly up into the sky and stayed for long. Many kids surrounded by his side
laughing and clapping their hands. It’s a very enjoyable sight.
An old Hyde Barracks was linked to the Hyde
Park but the tickets were pretty expensive. So we just wandered outside the
building and continued our way to a big cathedral after a little bit of
touching here and there. The cathedral wasn’t opened at the time… guessed we
would have to come back some time in order to visit!
Memorials were seen mostly everywhere in
Sydney, even in the city centre. We had a late lunch at about 3 o’clock for we
were going to be starved to death if we kept going on without consuming any
food. It’s the first time that we dined in a food hall under Myer, we usually
go into these kind of department stores only for bathroom usage. The food hall provided
people with meals from many countries, burgers, subways, Chinese, Japanese,
Turkish Kebabs, Indian rice and even Mexican tacos.
Roxie refused to have any burgers and I
wasn’t that much in favor of subs. We had Japanese yesterday so that’s when I decided
to give Mexican food a try. I told Roxie she can choose her own meal but she
insisted on following me to the Mexican booth: Mad Mex. I had Taco Bell years
ago in Shanghai and they were amazing, that’s where I got my good faith in
Mexican. I lined up in front of Roxie and here goes the ordering.
I chose the kind of pastry I want and I
picked the burrito. The stuffing was some kind of beef with hot chili and
ketchup and some kind of brownish sauce with green paste… The beef was the
amount of a nibble and the waiter added so much brown rice and weird black
beans into my burrito instead! It cost me 12.90 AUD for the experience and I
stood there holding my burrito dumbfounded. Roxie had some soft tacos with
chicken and green mustard, it’s a little below standard, but at least edible.
Unlike mine.
I had no intention on criticizing the
delicious treat from other countries but this, I just couldn’t get used to it.
I was very afraid that eating the combination of all those weird ingredients
and sauces would jinx me hard in the stomach. I tried my best and finished
about three quarters of my burrito before throwing the whole thing away. Roxie
was nice enough to buy me a drink after seeing me in lot of pain eating my
food.
Dinner was on us again, cooked in our own
hands two pieces of steak from the supermarket, sizing my whole face in total.
It was an easy cooking: just threw it on the frying pan and remember to flip,
eat it while hot. They tasted delicious even without spices.
Roxie even got some canned beans from the
store saying that we have to have something green, or veggie every meal. They
were a bit tasteless but at least better than the ones in the afternoon HAHA.
We were going to Darling Harbor tomorrow and
we were planning to visit there twice: the city zoo and the wax museum for the
first time. But it’s a shame that we wouldn’t have the chance to visit the most
popular “Taroonga “Wildlife Zoo in Sydney, for it would be taking us in a back
and forth ferry rides plus an aerial lift to get there, way too much for us to
afford…
There was this really cool art centre called
MLC and it was full of every type of handcraft. It was a great place to spend
the whole afternoon if you don’t mind, but the price was high even after
discount.
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