Gracie’s Life Experiment

Out and about around the City today and took lots of piccies. Question is – what is this a photo of?

Today was the annual open day at the Sydney Opera House. This is a close up of one of the glassperspex toroidal discs that hang above the stage in the main concert hall to improve the acoustics (according to wiki they are “acoustic clouds”). I just loved the way the light was reflecting all over the place with them. The tours were actually very well organised and although the queues were long they moved very quickly. We did the studio tour and the main concert hall tour. There was a behind the scenes tour too but that queue was obviously longest and by the time we’d been on the other two we were getting hungry. Today was possibly the nastiest, wettest day to be taking piccies of the opera house. Outside was pretty grim, so much so the water was draining off the “shells” like waterfalls.

We ended up walking 1/2 way across the City to a place recommended in Lisa’s guidebook. Shame it was torrential downpour and there were no awnings to walk or hide under. After about 10 mins walking we just gave up running between possible shelters and hiding whilst waiting at the pedestrian lights. We were soaked through and there was so much rain it wasn’t draining properly. The entirety of the large open area in front of Hyde Park Barracks was about 3″ deep in water. We finally got to Bohdi (which is a vegetarian yum cha located beneath the plaza between St Mary’s and the Australian Museum. It was interesting having various forms of pumpkin and beetroot yum cha. Overall I wasn’t too impressed with the food – it was all rather soggy. Pretty much like we were. I must say they were totally hospitable though as we were so soaked they let us tidy ourselves up in the loos and gave us a towel. Evie was super grumpy after missing her nap and had a massive paddy at the table (resulting in one smashed plate – d’oh).