Christmas in Sydney

Merry Christmas or Happy Chrissy as the Australians say.  Christmas Eve was really beautiful.  We took the train into the city, had a great Italian dinner and then walked to Christmas Eve service at the historic and beautiful St. Mary’s Cathedral.  We stopped along the way to see Christmas trees in the city.

 

Santa and his reindeer made their way to our cozy 1 bedroom apartment through the balcony door and delivered presents for Christmas morning.   The kids got their wishes and fortunately they will all fit into a suitcasesJ.    Our apartment is tiny, but the view is amazing and will be perfect for New Years Eve.   We hear the cruise ships leave every day around five and wave goodbye. 

 

Around noon on Christmas Day, we drove about an hour up the coast to Palm Beach to spend Christmas Day with our friends from San Francisco.  We did not have a white Christmas, but it was a wet Christmas.  The weather kept us indoors all day so we baked Christmas cookies and made a great Aussie Christmas dinner.  When we woke up the next morning, the rain had cleared so we hit the beaches for the morning.    We said goodbye around noon as our friends were also moving back to States the next day.    We are now less than a week away from our departure.