MILESTONE: Sally's 1st Passport Stamp
Well, San Franscisco was fun (cold -- brrr!!!) but since Sally didn't nap for two dang days, it was good to finally get to our ultimate destination: SYDNEY.
And since we all (including Sydney) had stamps in our passport, today was a milestone for Miss Sally to receive her very first passport stamp.
Of course, this wasn't her first international flight -- I think she's been to Mexico 3 times, and Canada once. But thanks to the new international travel laws, she had to get a passport.
Kind of strange that Sydney actually got a stamp before Sally -- we had to get Syd's passport the last time we went to Cancun (Sally stayed home).
But Sally is quite excited to have her official passport stamped, and it's so perfect that the first stamp is Australia, since she was born on Australia day!
Today was a little strange -- we arrived in Sydney and called the place where we were staying, to see if we could check in early. Even though we had booked through a booking agency and paid in full for our 10-day stay in an executive apartment, the actual place had no knowledge of it.
What's more, they informed us that the apartment we were requesting had been flooded over a week ago.
Well, that sucks.
Only it didn't really -- I had an urgent file I had to send, so we were darting all over town looking for an internet cafe that was open at 7:00 in the morning. When we finally found a couple, none of them would let me hook up my laptop to send it -- it was all set up to use their computers only. We finally found a viable solution, only to discover what I just mentioned above about our (lack of) apartment.
Then the Law of Attraction kicked in, like it alwasy does.
The cab driver (well, to be honest it was more of a mini-bus or a super-van, actually. Very nice.) 'suddenly' remembered someplace that he thought would be wonderful.
He kept telling us "I don't know why, but this place just popped into my head. You will be so lucky if you get in -- it's fabulous and very reasonable."
It's called the Goldsbrough Apartments and don't you know, they happened to have a room.
And get this -- not only was the location slightly better than the other (although the location for our 'original' apt was excellent), but it has AMAZING views and a couple of addiitonal perqs -- like daily maid service.
We are up on the Penthouse level, and the views are completely stunning. You can see all of Cockle Bay and Darling Harbour and the sunrises and sunsets are just spectacular.
And of course it had an indoor pool, spa and sauna. And located very close to teh monorail and the light rail (which they call the "tram").
Hooray!!!
So we are getting settled, adn more to come shortly.
And since we all (including Sydney) had stamps in our passport, today was a milestone for Miss Sally to receive her very first passport stamp.
Of course, this wasn't her first international flight -- I think she's been to Mexico 3 times, and Canada once. But thanks to the new international travel laws, she had to get a passport.
Kind of strange that Sydney actually got a stamp before Sally -- we had to get Syd's passport the last time we went to Cancun (Sally stayed home).
But Sally is quite excited to have her official passport stamped, and it's so perfect that the first stamp is Australia, since she was born on Australia day!
Today was a little strange -- we arrived in Sydney and called the place where we were staying, to see if we could check in early. Even though we had booked through a booking agency and paid in full for our 10-day stay in an executive apartment, the actual place had no knowledge of it.
What's more, they informed us that the apartment we were requesting had been flooded over a week ago.
Well, that sucks.
Only it didn't really -- I had an urgent file I had to send, so we were darting all over town looking for an internet cafe that was open at 7:00 in the morning. When we finally found a couple, none of them would let me hook up my laptop to send it -- it was all set up to use their computers only. We finally found a viable solution, only to discover what I just mentioned above about our (lack of) apartment.
Then the Law of Attraction kicked in, like it alwasy does.
The cab driver (well, to be honest it was more of a mini-bus or a super-van, actually. Very nice.) 'suddenly' remembered someplace that he thought would be wonderful.
He kept telling us "I don't know why, but this place just popped into my head. You will be so lucky if you get in -- it's fabulous and very reasonable."
It's called the Goldsbrough Apartments and don't you know, they happened to have a room.
And get this -- not only was the location slightly better than the other (although the location for our 'original' apt was excellent), but it has AMAZING views and a couple of addiitonal perqs -- like daily maid service.
We are up on the Penthouse level, and the views are completely stunning. You can see all of Cockle Bay and Darling Harbour and the sunrises and sunsets are just spectacular.
And of course it had an indoor pool, spa and sauna. And located very close to teh monorail and the light rail (which they call the "tram").
Hooray!!!
So we are getting settled, adn more to come shortly.
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