Another Saturday in Sydney

Last Saturday saw the family Rutherford in Sydney - in two different places.

We travelled together towards Sydney from Heathcote at about 9am to Erskinville an inner south suburb and the girls were dropped at the railway station. There is a coffee culture around the rail station and shops and it all looked very cosmopolitan. Meanwhile the boys - aided and abetted by their GPS - travelled on to the old train repair sheds at Enfield to the Australian Technology Centre. A two day Animania Festival (manga) convention was being held, and AJR was determined to see everything he could in one day. We could not attend on Sunday as JSR had an important engagement with his clubs at 1.00pm on Sunday.

Mushroom Heartless

(left to right:)
Toshiro Hitsugaya and Soi Fon, Alphonse Elric, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha
Photographs by AJR

The girls went to Powerhouse Museum for a little culture. We had a talk on the Strasburg clock, which was built by Bartholomew Smith. The clock is based on on a model in Strasburg, France. Smith built it based on a postcard of the original. One part of the clock gives the times for each of the state capitals, I was surprised to find that Brisbane was 10 minutes ahead of Sydney, which was 10 minutes ahead of Melbourne!!!

Around lunchtime the girls met up with Unce R and Aunty T, plus girl child and boy child and had a lovely yum cha in China town followed by an exploration of Paddy's markets. Once our legs got tired enough we moved upstairs for a coffee. The boys picked the girls up about 4pm as they had seen enough at the Convention. As the GPS seemed to be blocked by all the tall buildings (a condition of most cities) we drove over to Bondi Junction on blind faith, a wish and luck. Once at Bondi Junction we checked out the Westfield shopping centre. Most shops did not close before 6pm, which we appreciated.



After Bondi Junction we drove to Sutherland and had a happy birthday dinner for G'ma with G'pa at a Thai restaurant.

All in all it was a lovely day.