Age of Aquarius
Friday, November 14, 2008
Sydney the psychadelic supermodel
I am in LOVE with this city. We arrived in Sydney last week and I have been keeping busy by visiting local markets and beaches, don’t worry though I am constantly lotioning and oiling to avoid burning. PS A shout out to my Aunt Judy for the half lifty. Congrats! I’m sure the other side of your face is very jealous. LOL!
Every girl walking down the street looks like a psychedelic supermodel who has hijacked a forever 21/H&M manikin from the window and did a quick change artist maneuver before strutting down the street with her perfectly volumized hair , glossed lips, Jackie O glasses and strappy goddess sandals. I had to buy a mini dress and tan waist cinching belt just to fit in. I consider my purchase part of assimilating with local culture. The fashion here is SO CUTE! Everywhere I look the women are fabulously dressed and adorable. This is in stark contrast with the sufer dude men who throw on board shorts and aviators, and maybe flip flops and a shirt. If they absolutely have to that is.
Sydney has the best public bathrooms I have ever been in in my whole life. I swear they are straight out of the Jetsons! When you enter a very instructive yet soothing female voice announces that you may now do your business, oh and feel free to use the public plastic needle disposal bin over to the right. Toilet paper is distributed for you, of course there are automatic sinks which distribute both soap and water in one hand swipe, and it flushes once you open the door to leave. I must say a step up from the farm.
Even the cross walks are better here. When it is time to cross the little green man appears to indicate the safe time to cross sign visually, but he is also accompanied by what I like to call walking music, which is emitted out of a speaker on the side of the pole and sounds like a cross between a videogame laser sound and an old school kitchen cooking timer. Brilliant!
The flavors of this country are amazing! First off, my favorite food in the whole wide world is Lilikoi (passion fruit), and it is EVERYWHERE! Whooohoooo! They have passion fruit ice cream, yogurt, smoothies and even lollies! It’s wonderful! People love to stop and chat here. Its actually hard to break away from an Aussie once they have commenced stop&chat mode. Not good if you have an agenda, but everyone is really friendly.
I am having trouble uploading pictures to the blog, but if you click here you can see a bunch from my facebook profile. Hope everyone is doing well. Love you all loads!
SHOW ME THE PICS!!!
Every girl walking down the street looks like a psychedelic supermodel who has hijacked a forever 21/H&M manikin from the window and did a quick change artist maneuver before strutting down the street with her perfectly volumized hair , glossed lips, Jackie O glasses and strappy goddess sandals. I had to buy a mini dress and tan waist cinching belt just to fit in. I consider my purchase part of assimilating with local culture. The fashion here is SO CUTE! Everywhere I look the women are fabulously dressed and adorable. This is in stark contrast with the sufer dude men who throw on board shorts and aviators, and maybe flip flops and a shirt. If they absolutely have to that is.
Sydney has the best public bathrooms I have ever been in in my whole life. I swear they are straight out of the Jetsons! When you enter a very instructive yet soothing female voice announces that you may now do your business, oh and feel free to use the public plastic needle disposal bin over to the right. Toilet paper is distributed for you, of course there are automatic sinks which distribute both soap and water in one hand swipe, and it flushes once you open the door to leave. I must say a step up from the farm.
Even the cross walks are better here. When it is time to cross the little green man appears to indicate the safe time to cross sign visually, but he is also accompanied by what I like to call walking music, which is emitted out of a speaker on the side of the pole and sounds like a cross between a videogame laser sound and an old school kitchen cooking timer. Brilliant!
The flavors of this country are amazing! First off, my favorite food in the whole wide world is Lilikoi (passion fruit), and it is EVERYWHERE! Whooohoooo! They have passion fruit ice cream, yogurt, smoothies and even lollies! It’s wonderful! People love to stop and chat here. Its actually hard to break away from an Aussie once they have commenced stop&chat mode. Not good if you have an agenda, but everyone is really friendly.
I am having trouble uploading pictures to the blog, but if you click here you can see a bunch from my facebook profile. Hope everyone is doing well. Love you all loads!
SHOW ME THE PICS!!!
posted by Juli at 5:54 PM
5 Comments:
Great to chat with you on line while you were putting this whole thing together. What a 3 hour effort!!! It took me a while to figure out how to get all 41 pics on and then to discover the text..not to mention the enlarge features.. I feel like a kid in a candy store. Can't wait to see you. Got some AUD $ today and is it ever pretty.
(sorry JM1 I guess it's public now)
H&K Keep up the good times!
LOVE YOU LOADS Mom
NICE photo gallery!It is hard to pic favorites but to name a few:
Playing With My Shadow at Cronulla Beach has a fun spiritual feeling to add excitement to the photo.
Coi in the Chinese Garden of Friendship hints of a Monet water reflection from the French Impressionists.
AND Classie Nail polish is just Sassy!
The View From Under the Bridge creates fascinating textural qualities in the stark black patterned edges of the bridge which contrast magically with the soft white cotton clouds of the moment!
Nice eye candy!
Hi Juli ~
Sydney is one of our favs, too! We were there for 10 days in early 2000, when they were still working on the Olympic venues. A friend of Asila and Amina's lives in Sydney, and she picked us up and took us to the aquatic venue, then back to her home and around the University.
Loved the aquarium, Darling Harbor, the zoo, the ferry rides to the beaches, and climbing the Sydney Bridge. Also got to see a performance at the operahouse. Try the pumpkin soup at various places, it was delish!
We also did a backpackers trip to the Blue Mountains for a couple of days. That was really interesting, too.
Take care, and keep the good times rollin'!
Love,
Annis xo
Thanks for the face shout-out. I'll look a little lopsided for awhile, but hopefully things will stretch and sag in the proper spots.
Yes, yes, I do love Sydney too. Your photos and descriptions brought back good memories. We used our transportation passes and just rode around Darling Harbour on the ferry, not caring where it took us.
Don't you just love those Aussie accents?
Auntie J sending kisses from both sides.
All those "psychadelic supermodel" Aussie birds strutting around and you can't include one damn photo of any of them?!?!?! VERY disappointed. Just kidding, glad you're loving the antipodean Los Angeles, but I think you'll like Melbourne even more (quick tip, tell people in each city that you prefer their city to the other, there is a long standing feud and people LOVE to hear that their city is best... or do the opposite and watch them turn red!) Looks like United might get me to Thailand for under $1,000, I'll keep you posted :)
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