Day1: 1 Jan: The 2nd Hottest Day Ever Recorded

1 Jan: Day 1: Hot hot hot! : You know when you go to Sydney, you're in for sunshine and more sunshine plus it'd be hot... it got a little bit too hot

Interesting start to the day :
1 Jan so I expected the neighbours upstairs to be up... yep where they up. I swear that I went will go crazy hearing Bon Jovi played one more time. Didn't get any sleep at all... was counting on at least 2-3 hours sleep but no luck. Only by the time we left for the airport the party was winding up.

Arrived at the airport 4:30...nice. Surprisingly there lots of other people for a new years 4:30 tho quite a few planes going that day. Our plane was only half full so that was good.

Flight: uneventful - didn't get to flyover the city upon arrival
Landing rating: 7.5 - pretty good few bumps - v slow descent - thought that it was going to stall in midair.
Arrival time: 7amish... still a whole day to explore!

Had a short power nap and decided to walk to the Eastwood Shops... hot hot hot! Even Nick said it was hotter than the Hawkes Bay.
The temperature gauge said it was 44+degrees celsius.
Found out at night that today was the hottest New Years Day recorded and then it was recorded as the 2nd hottest day ever to be recorded!!! (Hottest day ever recorded was 44.3!) Hmmm we should have tried raw egg and see if it cooked on the ground!

Lessons learnt:
* Bottled water by "Mount Franklin" tastes weird
* price of Coke is expensive to say the least! Cheapest place to buy it is from vending machines. Tastes a bit bland compared to NZ
* not many people wear hats for sun protection, looks like if you want sun protection you have an umbrella

Food critiques tour:
Place: Excellent BBQ Kitchen - Eastwood Shops
Budget: $ cheap asian food need i say more :)
Food:
- BBQ pork & noodles - ok though char siew could do with a longer cook so that it caramalises
- siew mie - big and chunky
- crispy skin chicken - nice
- crush ice lychee - yummy!!! so so sooooo good on a hot hot hot day

Comments:
Retailers make money on 1 Jan - no way!
With a bit of spare time to take things easy we popped over to the Macquarie Shopping Centre... it was closed! The place was packed with cars and people walking around aimlessly trying to get in, the only thing open was the cinema and fast food! You'd think that if you want to make a lot of money you'd be open because everyone was on holiday! It was almost as if it was a Boxing Day Sale down there except shops weren't open!

Pedometer:
9720 + misc700
Not bad only to Eastwood shops and walking around Macquarie for a short while, didn't count other times