Today, we revisited Circular Quay and the Botanic Gardens. We thought of having a leisurely picnic at the park and spend our remaining holiday all peaceful and relaxed. Indeed, the walk in the late morning was refreshing and quite enjoyable. We came across a huge fountain and stopped for a few shots.
That was when we saw a man basking with his giant bubble making gadgets. We thought it was a shame that Sophie was sleeping and could not catch his performance. As it turned out, he was just a petty man who would not perform or even let tourists take pictures of him unless he was paid. A lady tried to take a picture of him while he was practising and he abruptly burst his bubble and threw his gadgets on the floor before walking away. Poor lady! She ran away in fright!
Once we reached the Botanic Gardens, we went back to the place we like and set up our picnic area. I had dreams of sitting on somewhere like this while watching Sophie paint the scenery. Alas, that did not really happen in reality. She was much too distracted to paint anything. We had a bit of fruit (grapes actually) and Papa decided to buy some lunch for us. He took Sophie in hope that I could have some peace since Alfee was sleeping.
Unfortunately, my peace was shortlived. There were two sea gulls which kept edging closer and closer to us. They were so used to being fed by people that they thought they could get food from me. Luckily, there was no food around so they kept their distance for a while. Then when Alfee woke up so I had to feed him his cereal lunch. That was when trouble followed, suddenly two other huge scavengers birds flew over and the four of them kept coming towards us. They were huge with melicious looking beaks. I had to shoo them away every 5 seconds or so. Soon, they grew desperate and came forth in pairs, surrounding us. I had never felt so threatened by birds before! Meanwhile, Papa and Sophie was held up at the cafe because of the long queue. So, I had no reinforcement at all.
In the end, I packed up and left the place with Alfee without them! I paced up and down the path in hope to meet Papa and Sophie when they came back. After some time, we found one another! What a relief! The food was not fantastic but we were happy to be reunited. We sat down on a beach to eat, only to be "attacked" again by the same birds!!! We took turns to shoo the birds. I think they were smart enough to know that they no longer outnumbered us so they behaved a lot less aggressive than before.
We got out of there before we had to start fighting with those birds. We walked around the Sydney Opera House and took more pictures. Sophie was completely at ease with the ground, sitting and lying anywhere she liked. All I could do was to roll my eyeballs out...
When it started to drizzle, we hid in the library. I also took the opportunity to nurse Alfee. We came across this model of the entire Sydney City underneath the library floor. It was great for Sophie to talk about where she had visited for the past week.
"Home" at last, I managed to "force" Sophie into working on the painting of Sydney, even though I did most of the drawing. She was not keen at all with painting. However, I felt that we must finish what we had started. And indeed, it was finished... by me, unfortunately.
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