Museum of Sydney and another look at the Gardens

Photos:

• Top left: the Museum of Sydney
• Top right: model of one of the earlier boats to bring British settlers and convicts to Australia, at Museum of Sydney
• Middle left: Conservatorium of Music
• Middle right: Government House in the Royal Botanic Gardens
• Bottom left: view of Royal Botanic Gardens (I think this section is in the herb garden) from the hill by the Conservatorium of Music
• Bottom right: statue at the entrance to the Royal Garden

Yesterday it was raining so hard spent the afternoon walking around downtown completely soaked. (I have no idea why the sky looks blue in all the pictures, because it definitely didn't look that nice.) I decided that this morning I would go first thing and invest in an umbrella...but it's not raining *yet* so I've decided to hold off on the extra expense. I may regret that later.

I ended up going to the Museum of Sydney. It was interesting, but not a whole lot of stuff there. I was glad that they gave me a student discount because if I'd paid full price I would have been disappointed.

After the museum, I walked back towards the Royal Botanic Gardens because I was only a couple of blocks away. Took a few more pictures, but couldn't get into any of the buildings; the conservatory because I couldn't find the entrance and the Government House because it's only open on weekends. Still nice to look at, though.

When I left the Gardens I went back to use the internet before going home, just to get out of the rain for a little while. Went home and got into some dry clothes before going out for dinner with few of Carla's friends from her Master's program. Very cold, wet night last night, so we didn't make any plans for afterwards, other than going home and curling up with the fleece blankets.