Miscellany

Our route to Sydney went from Detroit to Los Angles, and then on to Sydney. One of the great things about flying to the south west is that many of the planes go over the Grand Canyon. Adrienne took some pretty great pictures of the view with her phone. I haven’t visited the Grand Canyon on the ground, but I would love to at some point. I’m not sure anything but flying over at 30,000 feet can really give you a correct sense of the Canyons’ scope.

  

There seem to be pockets of Sydney where they don’t like street signs. Finding our way around in the first couple days became very hard because most of the streets weren’t labeled! It is really hard to get somewhere when you don’t know what street you’re on or which street you’re crossing. It completely baffles me that they would just fail to label the majority of streets in some of the suburbs. In fact, there would be intersections where the road we were on was labeled, but the road we were crossing was not. There are also areas where all the streets are labeled.

We took the dogs for another walk today, and Adrienne decided to dress up for it:

 

During the walk, we found this great sign in the park. The symbols are all things you should look out for while you’re in the park. Some of them are pretty awesome, and I have no idea what some of them mean. My interpretation, from top left to bottom right: (sadly, I cut the first one off) bird strikes, falling branches, falling tress, slippery surfaces, people doing cartwheels up stairs, angry people jumping in holes, snakes and spiders, smelly benches, teeter-totters (they’re sneaky!), freak quicksand storms, cricket, people hovering over bikes, I have absolutely no idea, and lovers (also sneaky).