Aquarium! 8/2

This blog post has a lot of pictures (31).

I went to the aquarium with Chloe and Sofia! Sofia is from Sweden, and I met her on the Coogee-Bondi walk. She's really weird :P

The aquarium is at Darling Harbour, so we went back there. The plan was to go to the aquarium, get some food, wander around a bit, and then watch the fireworks. Darling Harbour is supposed to have fireworks every Saturday night at 8:30pm. EVERY Saturday!!! That's so crazy!

This is what the boat show looks like during the day. I prefer it in the night to be honest. THE BOAT SHOW IS STUPID.

Then this street entertainer was about to start a show and he had sticks on fire on the ground and I thought it was going to be a cool magic show but instead it was just a break dancer and I was very disappointed.

We went to the aquarium. Chloe and Sofia got the buy one get one free deal for arc members, but I didn't because my cashier was stupid!! What a rip-off. Just kidding.

The first things we saw were platypuses. They swim so quickly, this is the best picture I could get.

This turtle has a super long neck. He looks kind of like me.

This is a baby shark!!!

Sting ray

Penguins!!

OCTOPUS!!!

Seahorses

Really REALLY cool jelly fish!

JAPANESE SPIDER CRAB

D: LOL

Then I started with the shark selfies

The room was circular and had a glass ceiling the whole way around and so many sharks.

Sea anemone!

LOL

Chloe and a fish

Chloe and another fish

Who's cuter? Me~ or that thing?

Photoshop

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After we finished the aquarium, it was around 3 or 4pm, so we were a bit hungry. We looked around and all of the restaurants at the harbor were really overpriced. BUT we found this one restaurant with an awesome deal! So we had burgers for around $10 (and these came with fries).

Then we went to Harbourside, the mall at Darling Harbour, and window shopped a bit.

Forever 21 my favorite store!!~ 

We saw a lot of touristy things, like Australian flag short shorts and koala/kangaroo slippers.

After we were done wandering around the mall, it was getting closer to 8:30, and some of Sofia's friends were coming into the city to watch the fireworks. So, we were on our way back near the bus stop, and on our way there, I asked one of the police/security people on the bridge if there were going to be fireworks with the boat show in the harbor. AND THE BOAT SHOW IS STUPID. AND THEY SAID THE FIREWORKS WERE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE STUPID BOAT SHOW. 

so baeyutahful

Sofia's friends were already in the city/on their way, so we broke the news to them when we met up with them. So, since the fireworks were cancelled, we decided to wander around the city instead.

SHOPPING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Me & my pearlz~ :*

After a few shops, we went to Westfield tower and looked for some food because Jennifer, Michelle, and Kirsti hadn't eaten yet. Jennifer is on exchange from France, Michelle and Kirsti are full-time students and flatmates. Michelle is Australian from Melbourne and Kirsti is from Norway.

I wanted some dessert and there was a Din Tai Fung, so I ordered this thing called a golden lava bun. I couldn't read the Chinese, so I asked Chloe what it was and she described it as "a thing with a wet thing inside." My curiosity got the better of me.

On the receipt it just said "lava." Michelle asked what it was because it looked like an egg. I told her it was called lava. Then I bit into it and the inside was just wet yellow. Michelle commented it still looked like an egg, and asked how it tasted. And to be completely honest, it just tasted eggy.

Then, we went searching for this ice cream place, but my maps was wrong and then Michelle's maps was wrong. So we went to Woolworths (supermarket), and bought a few things; I got some bread and butter and VEGEMITE. Sofia bought us kangaroo jerky since she felt bad that I had to pay more for the aquarium ticket. So kind 

They also have emu and crocodile jerky.

Then we went to McDonald's around the corner for ice cream.

McCafe in Australia is fancy. They have macarons...

AND MCDONALDS ALSO HAS FROZEN COKE WHICH IS JUST A COKE FLAVORED SLUSHEE BUT IT WAS AWESOME.

ignore kirsti's eye and nose, that frozen coke machine is heaven

And we ate the kangaroo jerky. And it was very tough and chewy. It was like a barbecue sauce flavored rubber band. I kind of liked it, but the rest of them described it as "dog food" "disgusting" "you can have the rest" etc. Maybe I'm a dog.

After a bit at McDonald's, we went home! What a long day.