Day 8 - From Cold to Warmer-ish

The dinner cruise of Sydney Harbour last night was amazing!!! Words can't even describe how beautiful it was! We rode the boat around the harbour for all of dinner and a little after so we could take more pictures and enjoy the view.  After the cruise a few of us walked closer to the Sydney Opera House to get up close and personal.  They had a light show playing on the side of the opera house and on several other buildings near the harbour.  It was really cool! We tried to go ride the monorail around the city, but it was closed by the time we got to it.
This morning we woke up early so we could catch our flight from Sydney to Cairns.  We thought it would be warm once we got here, but it turned out to be rainy and chilly still! Lucky us since it only rains there 5% of the year!  Once we arrived we visited an aboriginal cultural center.  Here we saw presentarions on the dances and weapons of their culture.  We even got to learn how to throw spears and boomarangs!  It was all pretty interesting and fun until one of the guides told us that he didn't own a pair of shoes and made it seem like he lived in the rainforest and then when we were leaving we saw him in regular clothes going to the parking lot.  It just comes to show you how very few tribal people still live in developed countries.

Later that night we headed to an awesome seafood restaurant called Tha Fish.  It was probably the most fun meal I have ever had!  Lauren and I split this awesome shrimp ravioli and a seafood platter.  The platter had shrimp, scallops, oysters (which I couldn't eat), bugs (crayfish), yabbies (mini lobsters), crab, calamari, and some fried stuff that we didn't really know what it was. :) It was so much fun tasting all of the different types of seafood and they were all fresh since we were so close to the ocean.