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Coming back to work from vacation in New zealand was extremely painful but thankfully we came back mid-week so the next weekend came pretty quickly. We went up to the only alpine area in Australia, Kosciuszko (my phonetic spelling: kozzie-osco) national park in the "snowy mountains." Mt. Kosciuszko (referred to by everyone as kozzie) is 7300 feet high which is the highest point on the Australian continent...its one of the seven summits so many of the best mountain climbers in the world have summitted it to complete the highest peaks on all seven continents. To summit kozzie, however, you follow a well maintained path to the top of the mountain. I'm guessing it’s a tad easier than everest. We drove most of the way there friday night then saturday went into the park and did the hike up kozzie. It was a beautiful sunny day and you could look out and see a long ways. The views were very pretty, but i imagine its even prettier in the winter when there's more snow on the ground. We stayed that night in Thredbo village, which is the main ski area in Australia. I think the skiing would be pretty weak, but the village itself was great...it was a gorgeous sunny evening and we enjoyed a few drinks out on some sunny patios. Sunday we frolicked in a park for a while, threw a frisbee around, but had to get on the road (it was a little over 5 hour drive back to sydney). A fun place to go, but kind of a long drive for a short weekend.
During the week on wednesday night we went to the "open air cinema" at mrs. macquarie's point in the domain. During the summer each night, they play a different movie on this screen they have set up in the harbour with views of the city, bridge and opera house behind. Its a spectacular spot, literally probably the very best spot in Sydney. We had a perfect warm evening and saw "Role Models" with Paul Rudd which we were both highly entertained by. Friday night we had a big night out and hit some of the iconic bars in Sydney. We started at the opera bar which is right in front of the opera house on the water. From there went to the ivy (anyone here will tell you that any night out in sydney usually includes a stop at the ivy) and then to cargo bar (which is the bar they always went to in the real world). It was a fun night and kind of nice to be in the city on a weekend for a change. Sunday we made it out to the beach for a bit…went to a beach a little further out from the city (Cronulla) to try something new. And for dinner we went to a burger place that had REALLY good burgers, like I haven’t had a good burger since I’ve come to Australia but this was a good American burger. It was really exciting for me (gotta take pleasure in the little things).
A few more pics from Kozzie:
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