Carnival Spirit - May 2013, Day 1 Sydney

Who would have thought it, another cruise already!! We are defnitely hooked! This cruise is to celebrate my sister's 'milestone' birthday but we had a few hiccups so it ended up being earlier than we had planned - her birthday isn't until August (maybe that just means we'll have to do another cruise!!). This time around there are 6 of us (3 adults and 3 kiddies - well technically 4 adults but I'm classing miss 13 as a kid!) in a twin and quad cabin. I'm in the twin (with miss 13) - woohoo, more room for me!

Our adventure begins like our last cruise from Sydney - on the train! This time though we are doing the day time train and staying overnight in Sydney, much better! I found a reasonably priced hotel (Aarons - Haymarket) with a room that will fit us all, cosy!

XPT from Wauchope to Central - approx 7hours

It was still a long trip but much better than the overnight one we did in January. We arrived in Sydney at around 4.30pm and then trekked off with suitcases in tow to find our hotel. After a couple of wrong turns we made it, it isn't that far from Central if you take the direct route! We checked in and after a trip back to reception to fix our room key we were in our cosy room - although considering there were 2 sets of bunks and a double bed it wasn't too bad at all. Mr 6 made up the beds for us all while the 3 adults partook in a glass of wine. We were all so exciting to be cruising again!

Time for dinner and what better place than Chinatown! It was close by and very easy for us to walk there - there were a lot of places to choose from but we decided on the foodcourt. Fantastic choice! The food was amazing and so cheap - next time we're in Sydney we know where will be having dinner!

After dinner we walked down to Darling Harbour as the Vivid Festival was on - amazing! Too bad my photo's didn't turn out very well! It started to rain a little bit so we ducked into the shopping centre at Darling Harbour and the kids had an icecream - 30c from Mcdonalds.

 

 

After watching the light show we walked back to our hotel for a good nights sleep - tomorrow was CRUISE DAY! We did see a few funny sights during our stay in Sydney - there are a lot of weird and wonderful characters walking the streets of Sydneytown that is for sure. Need to go to the toilet, no problems, just drop your daks and push (we're not talking number ones here!!) this was just out the front of Maccas at the Entertainment Centre - hilarious! (and a touch gross) Welcome to the big smoke kids!