Harbour Bridge

I met up with Katie from my Outback trip today for a little more sightseeing. She's been living here for five months, and is off to Darwin in January with anew job. We went to Darling Harbor to check out the Powerhouse Museum, which I heard was excellent from the Canadians I met in Bellingen and ran in to again here. It turns out the Star Wars: the Magic of Myth exhibit was there, which we both were pretty excited about. I actually saw it five years ago in Washington D.C., but it was more interesting this time since I got the audio tour so I could listen to Darth Vader explain what I was seeing. There was also some new Episode I and II stuff. Then we looked at some of the rest of the museum. Katie's mobile phone (not cell phone) went off about every five minutes, and she had to leave to go to a black-tie gala or something. Katie comes from a different world than I do: she grew up learning to play six different instruments, has lived in Greece and Australia, and goes to Egypt every year to wind surf. But that's why I'm traveling, to meet different kinds of people.

That night I went to the new Harry Potter film, which while painstakingly true to the book enough to make the movie long and boring, deviated strangely in a few small ways that bothered me. Then I found a Chinese restaurant/ice cream parlor/internet cafe with unlimited internet for AU$4, so I started the process of posting photos by picking which ones were worth uploading and then ftp-ing them. Lucking there was no security, so I could install all my software.