Sydney Australia

 

We landed in Sydney early in the morning after the airline crew was sure we knew we absolutely could not bring all sorts of food into the country and had us fill out declaration forms.  Once we were off the plane we wandered through parts of the airport until we hit customs and out into the main airport.  We are here for basically a long weekend and unfortunately it is supposed to be a rainy one.  We took a cab into the city, and I saw a sign about road closures due to Vivid Sydney, so I asked the cab driver what it was.  Seems we are here at the start of a big modern arts festival.  There will be lighting up of buildings and special performances and fireworks on select nights.  We are now looking forward to the lights show even though it is now raining hard when we get to our hotel.