Valentine's Day

Day 14: 2/14

Valentine’s Day! We woke up before our checkout at 10am and considered another activity in the Blue Mountains before going home, but the weather was even worse. The only option was to take a cave tour, but when we discovered that it would cost us $70 and that we wouldn’t be back to the hostel until 5pm that night, we decided to just grab some breakie and go home. We had some Belgian Waffles at a quaint little Waffle House in town and enjoyed a nice relaxing meal with coffee and tea (pictured). We hopped the next train to Sydney and went home. While we were away the girls all bought red and pink dresses for Valentine’s Day and made reservations at a restaurant along the wharf in view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. This was actually my first in-person sighting of the two famous landmarks and it was pretty cool. The service was very poor here: our waiter made us split the bill ourselves and never came to our table once besides taking our orders and serving our meals (which were nothing to brag about). That night there was a Stoplight Party at the Gumal residence which is just a party where single people where green and those in relationships wear red. It was about as lame as anticipated and was actually stopped by security after about an hour. We walked down to Land’s Downe again for a few drinks. I spent my whole time here talking to an Australian band called Serenik and they were pretty cool. The next thing I knew everybody was heading out and so I joined them and went to bed.