early start the next morning. Lying in a bed never felt so good! Because we went to bed so early, I was awake at 4:00am. I waited until 4:45am before I got up which then woke Brian up. We left for Blue Mountains at 5:30am.
We arrived in the city of Katoomba around 7:30am. We stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast along the way. When we got there, it was foggy. We went to Echo Point. Not many people were there yet. They charged $4 an hour for parking and we were not sure how long we where going to stay so we decided to find free parking farther away. We did and it worked out well.
First we walked down steep stairs towards Three Sisters (three pillars in the picture below). We did not want to hike the entire trail but wanted to get some good pictures. Then we went on a two hour walk to Leura Falls. It was a beautiful day. The scenery was spectacular. We stopped at all the lookout points to get pictures. (Oh, I am in so much trouble for my scrapbook. I will have way too many pictures to go through. Oh well, it is worth it).
While on our walk, we saw many lizards. Of course, I would scream. I got better
as I kept seeing them everywhere. Also there were many beautiful birds. The birds would make some unique noises.
Once we got back to Echo Point, we went into the town of Katoomba. There we found a grocery store (Coles). We were excited about that. It was hard this morning, not having any food at all. (I am already sick of McDonalds). We went shopping. We got some cold drinks, dried fruits, pizza crackers, chocolate chip cookies, pears, bananas, strudel cake for the morning (I could not find regular muffins), fruit juice for the morning, and granola bars. We will be set for today and tomorrow now. Oh, I forgot. We wanted ice cream after our 3 ½ hour hike and the cones were expensive so we passed on them at the gift shop. At the grocery store, we bought a package of 4 ice cream cones (they did not have a package of two). So for lunch, I ate 2 ice cream cones. (After all the walking I did, I am okay with that. Per my pedometer I walked 15,000 steps today).
Now we are back at our hotel getting cleaned up before we go to downtown Sydney for the evening. Off to McDonald’s to upload this post. The extra photos are sponsored by McDonalds and their free wifi. It is nice that it is across the street. Our hotel charges $10 per hour. Once we get on the ship, we’ll be charged by the minute for internet so posted pictures will be more limited.
