A Sydney Sojourn - Part One

Neither Helen nor I have ever seen Paul Kelly in concert, and though we have seen Neil Finn, we were always keen to see him again. So when, in November, I discovered that they were going to play TOGETHER at the Sydeny Opera House in March 2013, I jumped to get good tickets, and was able to keep it a surprise long enough to give to Helen for Xmas.
Also, as the concert was just a couple of weeks after our 20th wedding anniversary, I decided to make a weekend of it, and booked accomodation near the Opera House for two nights, and organised Mum & Dad to look after the kids.

So, today we drove over to Minnamurra at 10.00am, and after a cup of tea with Mum and farewells to the kids (for pretty much the first time in their lives) we boarded the train for Circular Quay. And what a lovely train ride it was. We both had our headphones in, listening to our own music, and also reading our own book or magazine, or just staring out the window. Quite the change, and very relaxing.

We arrived at Circular Quay just prior to 2.00pm, and booked into our hotel, Pullman Quay Grand, right on Circular Quay and the Royal Botanic Gardens. I had booked aroom on the RBG side of the hotel, and the room and view were both quite stunning. We had a room on the top floor of the visitor accomodation, and the management even sent up a complimentary bottle of champagne for our anniversary. So we sat on the balcony and had a lovely time.

After champagne we had to go out and find sushi for Helen for lunch (not for me, thank you), and having walked around the Quay and the Rocks, and bought a few essentials (more champagne and some chips and chocolate) we returned to our room. Having perused the room service menu, we decided on eating in and a couple of in-house movies.
The movies we watched were "Argo" (which was informative and gripping with some good performances) and "Bachelorette" (which was a female "The Hangover" which was basically tripe).
My dinner was superb. Wagyu rump steak with chips, awesome stuff. Helen also enjoyed her meal, which was of a fabulous standard and reasonable price considering where we were.