Dec 13 - Groceries and Night Stroll

Slept in past noon today. Both Brennan and I have colds, which is typical for December in Saskatchewan, but seems weird in Australia. Anyways, the extra rest always helps. Got up and had the free hostel breakfast, which consists of two pieces of toast (no spread) and a glass of orange juice. Surprisingly, they had raisin toast, so we both opted for that. Sat on the internet for awhile then decided to hit up some food, since the breakfast didn't do much to fill the void. So we walked over to our favourite place, also known as Yummy's kebab and pizza shop. Both crushed delicious kebabs and then walked over to Woolworth's to embark on a grocery mission. Since we're at our current hostel for 2 weeks, we decided to stock up on food and we each packed a grocery basket until they were overflowing. Cracked the $100 grocery mark (total, not each) for the first time this trip. Normally we did a bunch of smaller grocery missions on a day to day or every other day basis. We loaded up 4 canvas grocery bags full of our food and walked back to the hostel to put it all away. Fruit, pasta, meat, stir fry, crumpets, sandwich meat, bread and other random items are now at our disposal. Tired out from the busy day thus far, we chilled at the hostel and surfed the web some more. Our mobile internet stick turned out to be a great investment and is working like a charm.

The internet eventually got boring so we ventured out for a snack. Weren't hungry enough for another meal due to the very filling kebab earlier, but a couple Krispy Kreme donuts and a coffee did the trick nicely. Then we walked over to the harbour and snapped some pictures of the Oprah "O" on the Harbour Bridge and pictures of the set in front of the newly dubbed "Oprah House" (instead of Opera House, how very clever...). We decided it'd be worth the hassle to walk down and check out the taping tomorrow morning, then walked back to the hostel, stopping on the way to take photos of the town hall. There is a projector across the street from town hall and it lights up the building with colour and patterns and quotes and pictures. Back at the hostel we killed some more time on the internet and I worked on a book I'm going to publish about the trip, then went to bed. Up early tomorrow to watch Oprah and then going to try and see U2 in concert. Probably the two most powerful media moguls in the world in one day.