Adventures in Paradise: Day Twenty-Seven of Adventures in Paradise!

Alas, our long trip of Twenty-Nine days is coming to end! Today was our last and final day in Sydney. We decided to once again sleep in late until 10:30 am to recuperate from the previous days of walking (we were averaging around 8 miles a day). After our breakfast, we decided to go back to Darling Harbour to go to the Sydney Aquarium and Wildlife Sydney. The aquarium had your usual offering of fish, sharks, crabs, and one unique animal, the mermaid/manatee like Dulong. At Wildlife Sydney, they had animals native to Australia like the Kangaroo, Koala, Wallaby, etc. behind glass cages for you to see. It wasn't as nice as Featherdale, but enjoyable nonetheless. We then headed to an Italian restaurant called Lucetta for lunch. There we both had Margarita Pizzas and an appetizer platter for two. After our lunch, we headed to the Westfield Mall for one final treat, Macaroons. The macaroons in Sydney are much different than the ones in America. The macaroons in Sydney are Oreo-like confections made of an almond-meringue crust with a buttercream/jam filling. They come in all sorts of colors and flavors like strawberry, blueberry, chocolate, etc. With our dessert finished, we headed back to the Radisson to pack up and leave via taxi to the Kingsford Smith International Airport at 6:00 pm. The fare for this 20 minute, 8 mile ride was $46, so Cab rides can be VERY expensive here. At the airport, we were promptly checked in and by 9:30 pm, we were in the air heading to Honolulu. Our days in Sydney were over, well at least until our next visit (no, I don't know when that will be). Anyways, stay tuned tomorrow as we REPEAT a whole day due to our crossing of the International Date Line, and we have another day to spend on O'ahu!