Culinary Adventures, Another Installment

The funny thing about being the Crohn's party in the dynamic Foodie and Crohn's Girl duo is that a lot of the foods I'd really like to try are usually a big risk. Every time Wes says "let's have ______!" tonight, I have to weigh the pros against the cons and pray that the weight of the meal doesn't land me on a toilet for a few hours that night.

Crude, to be sure, but the truth.

All the same, we have had many adventures in trying new and exciting foods together, already. We've had yum cha, a family feed, dinner with friends, sushi train trials and a whole Japanese festival of goodies. Today, I get to tell you all about the awesome food we've had the last few weeks!

Dinner Date with a Firefly

Eventually, we ran out of touristy things to do at the top of the Sydney Tower Eye , so we packed it in and headed back to the Galeries to have dinner. As he had predicted earlier in the day, Wes and I would indeed be eating at Hotaru one day.

We just didn't expect it to be so soon!

Meeting the Family -- Part Two

It recently came to my attention that Blogger ate half of the post I made about meeting Wes' family a couple of weeks ago, so I'm going to try and fix that here by retelling the tale that Blogger took.

Bird's Eye View

Eventually, we'd had our fill of food and festivities and Wes offered to show me the grandest views you can get while in the city, at the top of the Sydney Tower Eye!

In order to actually get to the Eye (the logo for which we agreed looks eerily like Sauron's Eye), we had to cross through part of the city, then through another shopping center, up about five floors and around a winding corridor. At last, we lined up to purchase tickets and yet again stood waiting.

On the way to the tower itself, we passed the Queen Victoria Building and several other landmarks. Sydney has a lot of really great architecture to admire!

Matsuri in Sydney or More Japanese Food Than You Should Cram into a Day

Darling Harbour hosts quite a few cultural and social events throughout the course of the year. It has a nice, centralized location which makes it easy to find and just as easy to stumble upon, which makes it ideal for these sorts of things.

On Saturday, there were two festivals going on at the same time. One of them, we had planned to see. The other was a complete surprise! I also got the chance to get a bird's eye view of the city and eat at a sushi train for the first time ever.

It was a very eventful and fulfilling day!

Which means that this is going to be yet another really long post.

Tripping Through Taronga -- Part 4

On Thursday, I got a chance to go to Taronga Zoo for the first time ever. Taronga is a world-famous zoo, just a ferry's ride away from Sydney, and it very much deserves its reputation. It not only has amazing animals but amazing views, as I joked to Wes when we were walking around:

Come to Taronga Zoo. See our fabulous animals and city views.

It really was a great experience and I'd love to go back in the future.

Now, stick close to me, this is going to be a long one in multiple pieces! Be warned, there are a LOT of photos!

Tripping Through Taronga -- Part 3

On Thursday, I got a chance to go to Taronga Zoo for the first time ever. Taronga is a world-famous zoo, just a ferry's ride away from Sydney, and it very much deserves its reputation. It not only has amazing animals but amazing views, as I joked to Wes when we were walking around:

Come to Taronga Zoo. See our fabulous animals and city views.

It really was a great experience and I'd love to go back in the future.

Now, stick close to me, this is going to be a long one in multiple pieces! Be warned, there are a LOT of photos!