We are staying in another part of Sydney called Darling Harbor and it too is wonderful and has another Vivid light show for us to view.
We are attending the International Rotary Convention for the first time so we are curious to see what will happen. It is held at the Olympic Stadium where the Summer Olympic Games were held in 2000 and it is enormous! There are 18,000 Rotarians from over 250 countries and territories all over the world. The bus we ride back and forth and the friendship hall we spend a lot of time is a crazy quilt of colors and fashions from all over the world. The number of languages is amazing. It is as if we are at a United Nations meeting. Since we all have Rotary in common and all want to meet others, conversations automatically happen and everyone is involved talking and enjoying each other. It is a wonderful feeling as we visit with people from Russia, China, Japan, Europe, African Nations, Egypt and all over the world with no distrust or fears.
We have the big meeting each day in the big arena called AllPhones where the basketball games and other events took place. The speakers on all three days were excellent and we have entertainment that was first rate. One group, Human Nature, in fact is from Australia but doing a 3 year stint in Las Vegas The closing entertainment of The TEN Tenors and Marina Prior are well known all over Australia. The arena was a packed house.
Uggh, I wake up and my head hurts. Too much food, cocktails and wine the night before with Vickie and Garry. They had the capacity and youth to push us to our limits. We heard tales of Grange wine tasting and the wines outside of Melbourne and Perth from our new friends Garry and Vickie. Tasmania sounds wonderful and only wishing we had another month in Australia. Vickie and Garry are from Melbourne and became fast friends. Seems they have been to the US once and not had the best wine experiance in Napa. Go figure.... Jim and I know that they would love our Paso Robles experiance and selfishly hope that they will come over to see us...so they have no choice to invite us as their guests. Tasmaina is a must. Margaret River is a must. The outback with Jane is a must...oh, forgot to tell you about the outback. Can you imagine spending a week in the outback? Awesome. I'm working for Hot, High and Tipsy Australia....2nd time around!
I did mention more food and wine, right? And we took a couple more pathetic selfies again...
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