I had my usual breakfast of fried egg on toast a the cafe next to my hotel. The hotel uses the cafe to provide breakfast for the hotel guests. It’s a typical sidewalk cafe where some of the tables are inside the building and some are on the sidewalk just in front of the building.
In the afternoon, I walked to the Queen Victoria Building(QVB) where I met Jennifer for High Tea- it was lovely and so nice to see Jennifer. QVB is a beautiful old building with stain glass windows, arches, interesting tile work and lots of fancy shops. It’s such a fancy building it has a ‘Ladies Powder Room’ instead of toilets or restrooms!
After tea Jennifer went back to her hotel to rest a bit since she just arrived in Sydney and I walked back to my hotel to rest before the opera.
I have tickets for the Turandot opera at the Sydney Opera House. I really wanted to go to an opera at the Sydney opera house but was worried I wouldn’t like it and gave myself permission to leave at intermission if I didn’t like it. The only other opera I went to was when the kids were young. I was trying to get us all some more culture but it didn’t work to plan. I talked to the kids about what an opera was and how to behave during one. We dressed up and went to San Francisco to see the opera. Everyone was very well behaved. They were surprised when I said we were leaving after intermission because I wasn’t enjoying the opera. We did not have very good seats and the stage was far away, it was hard to even see the performers. I could not understand the lyrics and the sign with the English translation was so far away I couldn’t read it either. I did have to convince the kids that they had done nothing wrong.
This opera was amazing and I stayed for the entire opera. The couple next to me go to the opera frequently and they said it was the best they’ve seen. Even though I had purchased a cheaper ticket, I had a very good seat and could hear the music and see the performance well too. Plus I could read the screen where it had the English translation of the lyrics. It was like a romance novel set to music and I wasn’t the only one in the theater that was crying and sniffling.
As an aside, I must be having fun because I missed a few days on my Solitaire game and now my over 200 day win streak is at 1.
