Sydney Moments

Some moments from my trip to Sydney. This trip was probably the trip where I missed my husband the most, as he spent two years of his life there before meeting me. Having met up with some of his friends, I felt like I was tracing his footsteps. Bittersweet experience. Here are some of the things which I captured while roaming around the land of Aussies.

There must have been a school trip to visit the same place as myself. So many little ones (even shorter than myself) in these yellow polo shirts & brown sweaters roaming about. I wonder what they were thinking. 

Student and Sydney University

Sydney Opera House

It's amazing to know that I remember exactly where I was when taking this photo. I guess photos really are a ticket back to a moment once experienced.

Probably one of my favorite images. Taken at the tallest building in Sydney. Sydney was kind enough to demonstrate a height comparison chart with the other tallest buildings in their city. Sydney's was proudly one of the shortest buildings built. 

The passenger sitting in front of me in the train. 

Waited forever like a real creeper to get the right angle of her face to be in view. 

The lovely greener that was in front of the apartment complex that I stayed at. 

Masumi

From One to Two

After visiting Rottnest Island I headed over to the other side of Australia: Sydney. I want to share with you a sweet incident that occurred while I was heading over to a dessert shop there. Having exited the train station, I was in the middle of walking down the path that directed me toward my destination but while walking I saw something that caught my eye. A small shop that seemed to sell an item that my husband told me to make sure to eat in Sydney: the Chico Roll. 

So I headed straight to the shop, allowing my prior plan to postpone for a bit. After a short talk with the man in the front of the shop I opted to try the chicken roll due to not eating beef. It was clear to him that I was a visitor, because I asked what was in a Chico roll, a big giveaway to a Sydney native huh?. We started talking about where I was from, and he got excited when I told him that I'm from Portland. His brother went there for a while!  

He shared with me a little about his brother & his venture to my land of pretty trees & food carts. He also wanted to tell me about the kindest lady he has ever met, the employee who was a lady standing behind him. Want to see the face of the kindest lady ever? She let me take a photo ^^. The one to the right! After maybe a good ten minutes of talking, he asked me if I wanted "tomato sauce" with my chicken roll. I wasn't sure whether to try it with the tomato sauce, and so he took out another chicken roll & put the tomato sauce on. "On the house." It was good.

One day I'll find this Chico roll shop again & tell him that I've never forgotten our fun encounter. That it made my day. Also, that I felt too full to eat my expensive dessert from trying to eat two chicken rolls.