elisa's creations: A little bit about Sydney: in pictures

I went to Sydney!!

Mum and I went on a 5 day holiday, here are (heaps of) photos of our trip...

The architecture

The view from the Paramatta - Circular Quay ferry

Unfortunately I did not have time to go to the Museum of Contemporary Art

Harbour bridge and Opera House

What the roof of the Opera House is made of! Tiles

The design of the Opera House

On the ferry I overheard someone saying a scene from Great Gatsby was filmed here, so I took a picture. Gonna watch it next week

The houses overlooking the harbour

The shopping

On the first day, we went to Birkenhead Point, which is like Dressmart, but 3 storeys full :)

a black and gold sequin peplum cardigan and lilac blouse from Laura Ashley

Headband from Alannah Hill. i love headbands !

And high top Chuck Taylors!

The food

There are so many Indonesians in Sydney! In Auckland it's pretty rare to hear my native language but over there, I had to be careful in shops in case the shop assistant was Indonesian :p

In Kingsford, the streets are lined with Indo restaurants (there is only one in Auckland that I know of and that is in a food court). Our first meal was Indo food

Really nice wonton soup noodle in Paramatta, which my mum tried to remake tonight but did not succeed as well

Lindt Chocolate Cafe!!
My mum had promised me to take me there ever since it first opened and there was a massive line out the door. The hype has died down now thankfully.

Individual pieces of chocolate

Man it was expensive! One of those places you'll only go to once or twice in your life- and only if someone else is paying :p

I had this absolutely divine mocha macchiato, with a piece of Lindt chocolate melting on top

Lindt sharing platter 'for two'. We shared it between 6 of us and it was really really filling...
Macarons, chocolate, brownies, waffles, strawberries with cream and vanilla ice cream.

Next to the coffee machine, there are two taps of continually flowing dark and milk chocolate!

For dinner:
Pancakes on the Rocks!

In Auckland the only place with a line out the door is the Auckland City Mission :p But it's pretty common in Sydney to be waiting in line for half hour (on a good day) to be seated. But worth it.

Rib eye steak

Beef nachos

and my spinach and feta crepes. So good!!!

For dessert:

Baskin Robbins please come to New Zealand!! I used to have this all the time in Indo, so when I got to Sydney I was like, YES PLEASE! I always have mint chocolate chip- my favorite flavour

Another chocolate cafe, Guylians this time:

the waitress was feeding these colorful birds and I was like, what the?! what are those birds??

look at that dessert selection!

the iconic praline seahorse

I had a macchiato which came with a praline seahorse. Swim horsey swim.

Ice cream selection: pistachio, hazelnut, strawberries and cream, chocolate

iced mocha- it was so big! with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and topping of cream and Guylians chocolate flaskes

For lunch: pear and gorgonzola toasted sandwhich at a cafe. Delicious

Laduree

I met up with my friend Rachel, whom I met through Studentlife and she is now doing her post-grad at UNSW. We had macarons and delicious food and talked about girly things like boys, love, marriage and not getting fat.

After purchasing praline and strawberry marshmallow macarons, we went upstairs to the fanciest foodcourt I've ever seen

They had gelato, cakes, chocolates, drinks...

We chose a tiramisu cake and nutella coffee drink to share :)

Happy Lab! It's a candy store that sells jelly beans in test tubes!! Pomegranate, candy floss and butterscotch

The last meal we had was a Thai restaurant in Kingsford

Delicious beef fried rice and bbq beef

Tofu salad

The most delicious crispy chicken ever.

And for dessert: MARTABAK!

I love martabak! In essence, it is an Indonesian 'pancake'. This one is chocolate peanut flavor :)

The animals

I went to KOALA PARK!! I was pretty excited to touch koalas and kangaroos!

this is a swamp wallaby!

"This is a red neck wallaby... Mum it's not jumping."

dingoes! more closely related to wolves than dogs. I would like one.

I stroked a koala!!! LIFE MADE COMPLETE

these two koalas were super cute, just cuddling each other, not moving for at least an hour.

Koalas actually just sit on trees and sleep.
They sleep for 19 hours a day and only move to eat. They feed almost solely on eucalyptus leaves.

Koala poop and pee.

CAN I TAKE YOU HOME?!

Did you know... newborn koalas are 2cm big!

Video of me touching a kangaroo for the first time:

"Hello... can I touch it? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
actually touching it with my hand this time, not prod its tail with my foot :p

I was watching the kangaroos jump for a while. So amazingly created! Look at its long foot. However, when they leap they only use the front part of their foot to land on.

Watch the video to see how kangaroos jump.