Royal Botanic Gardens

On Thursday we set out to see a little more of the city and to check out the Royal Botanic Gardens. I love getting off the train at circular quay! When you step out onto the platform you get an awesome view of the bridge and the opera house. It is one of my favorite places in Sydney so far. Sorry, you can't see the opera house in the picture.

Todd and Jett on the platform. Aren't my boys SO handsome??

We LOVED walking around the gardens. It is basically a big park with lots of walking paths right next to the opera house and the bay. GORGEOUS. If I could, I would go running there everyday! There is a nice path that just goes right along the water (shown below). We did see some big spiders in their webs which is fine with me...as long as they stay right in the middle of their huge webs so I can see them from afar! But it really is a little piece of heaven in the middle of a busy city.

If you zoom up on this picture you will see a whole bunch of BATS in the trees!

Jett is such a trooper.

Awkward picture stance. Lol. I hate being in pictures by myself.

I don't think Todd is much better at it than I am.

We were on a cute little bridge...I wanted Todd to take a pic of us on the bridge but as you can see he only got us in the picture!

Cool tree.

This annoying little bird hung around us while we ate lunch outside. Look at that beak! I did not want him anywhere near Jett so Todd had to keep scaring it away...but it kept coming back.
Oh the train rides! They wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have to keep this little boy entertained every single second. He is all over the place! Hopefully there will come a day when he will sleep on the train. But isn't he still just the cutest? In the picture behind Todd there is a map of the train routes in Sydney. It is pretty complicated but we have it down now! :-)
Oh, and this little bum may look like the cutest little thing but it is actually REALLY stinky.
Look who can get into the kitchen all by himself! (I'm not talking about Todd)
We came across a croquet field here where we are staying! Wanna join the local croquet club?
AND guess who is now nine months old? My little boy is growing up too fast. I really wish I could push the pause button but he is going to be a year old before I know it. Everyone here loves our little Jett. They call him "gorgeous." Seriously that is the word they always use. He loves looking at strangers and they love looking at him. We sure love our little stinker!