Lady Gaga, Sydney and the platypus

If you didn't see the 500 pictures I posted on Facebook today, go check them out. Right after lab on Thursday the physics people went to Sydney to meet with the girls at a hotel. We all got dressed in crazy outfits and then went to the Lady Gaga concert. I can't really express how awesome it was, but go look at the pictures. I did get a couple videos so I may upload them at some point. Right after that we met up with Phil and Tim and went to a bar in Sydney called the World Bar, which was fantastic. $7-9 drinks but they were super good.

The next day we went to Darling Harbor to eat brekky and then I split off with the Colgate kids because I had to get back to Weerona for Commencement. It's like prom without dates. Before that though I walked about 50-70 blocks through Sydney and took random pictures, and then took a bus back to the train station and arrived in Wollongong again two hours later. Commencement was fun. Everyone had to get into formal gear and eat dinner at the uni. We didn't stay out long that night because the next day we had to go to Sydney with Connie to go to the Aquarium!

Connie drove us to the train station and paid for our train ticket. Greatness. We had to leave at 7:25 though, which was unnecessarily early. Anyway we took the train in and met up with the other Colgate people. After a group shot with a kangaroo we went through the aquarium. They had these really cool underwater walkways that you could go through and see the fish from underwater. I got to see dugongs, penguins, lots and LOTS of sharks, jellyfish (no box though. Apparently they didn't have it? Weird). And the platypus. This dude rarely comes out in his big ass tank at the entrance. Not only did he come out three times while I was there, he came out to feed on some shrimp. And he swam right in front of me eating, so I got a good minute long video with Connie talking about it in the background. I'll upload this later. The dude is actually small. about two feet or so in length. He had webbed front feet and claws on his hind feet, and had a weird bill. Anyway that was the highlight of the day. After that we were all tired from a long weekend so we just came back and played cards.

Dangerous animal count: hell if I know. Too many sharks