Sydney Opera House

I felt that this experience deserved a post of its own. Before 3:30pm was boring. Then we went over to the opera house for a tour of this cool building. The Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, but was started in 1959! It was projected to cost $7 million, but ended up coming in at $102 million! After an exciting tour of the opera hall, theaters, and symphony hall, we went to dinner. This took place at Guillaume, a five-star restaurant at the opera house. We had a three-course meal (see pre-theater menu) starting with a roast beat and asparagus salad (or seafood platter), vegetable risotto (or steak), and nougat glace (although I conviced them to give me the sorbet trio) - all for a reasonable $70 - 90! We also had a free drink during intermission of the play, which I will now turn to. We saw Woman in Mind, which was an interesting play about a woman going crazy. It was pretty trippy and we all felt a little crazy afterwards! It was that instead of going to hear a Rachmaninov symphony, but it was still good. I'm off to the Taronga Zoo...

-Toodles!