When Dale retired our children gave him a gift certificate to use at the Sydney Opera House.
We decided to do a tour and lunch. The building is something to behold from every direction. This is the most recognized building in the world and has over 2400 events per year. Jorn Utzon of Denmark was the srchitect. The project was to cost 7 million dollars and take 3 years. In the end the cost was 102 million dollars and 16 years. The picture above shows the Harbour Bridge from one of the lobbies.
This is the ceiling in the VIP lounge with purple carpet.
Precast concrete structure on the interior.
Ceramic tile roof against the beautiful blue sky.
The design evolved from segments of a sphere after many attempts of other concepts.
The Opera House is actually 3 separate buildings - 2 with the theaters and 1 with the restaurants. There are 7 theaters within these buildings. It took 1,056,006 tiles to finish the roofs.
We always thought the tiles were white, but actually they are off white and taupe.
Inerior of the main lobby.
Sinks in the "toilets". The light color is curved birch wood.
Our gift from the kids was generous enough to include lunch. With the tour you could order an additional 3 tiered gourmet lunch from the Opera Kitchen. It was amazing and delicious.
The top tier contained 2 beef sliders and 2 chichken sliders and fries.
The second tier was loaded with salmon, oysters on the half shell, prawns and chips.
The bottom tier was California roll, pot stickers, spring roll and dumplings. Thank you kids for a wonderful tour, lunch and memories. We do have the BEST kids.
Cynthia was under the weather today, so we left her at Raquel's to get better. Jim had done some touring on his own while we were at the Opera House. We met up with him and headed over to the Botanical Gardens {adjcent to the Opera House}. This is a fig tree and we all thought it would make a great climbing tree.
The people and years had formed some steps in the sandstone, so we sat for a moment. It was very slippery and Marty is hanging on to Dale for dear life.
This is Mrs. Macquarie's chair. She was the wife of one of the governors and had the soldiers carve out this "chair" for her. She did have a wonderful view of the harbour.
Lachlan Macquarie was governor from 1810-1821. He took over a town-cum-jail and left a full-fledged city with civic pride.
A view from the gardens.
Raquel made us a beautiful dinner tonight, Dale and I shouldn't have been hungry, but it was all so good. Thank you honey!
Salmon, lovely salads and watermelon so sweet. Yummy.
To get ready for bed the kids wrapped up in blankets and "ropes" and we pulled the kids all over the floor. We all had fun. It was another wonderful day and Cynthia is feeling better. God is good.
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