The first thing we did on our final day in Sydney was exchange some money because by this time we had run out of Australian dollars. Unfortunately this time, the exchange charge was like $20 instead of $8 that it cost us when we exchanged the majority of our money at the start of the trip through Sofia's Australian bank. Also, the exchange rate at the end of the trip was much worse than when we first got to Australia, so we didn't get as many Australian dollars for our American dollars.

We took the train to Paddy's Market, in the southwestern part of the CBD. We arrived at the market after a little difficulty, since we weren't sure which way to go from the train station. Paddy's Market was similar to the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne, but wasn't nearly as big and didn't have as much produce, food, or restaurants. We bought a few souveniers, including a small replica of a boomerang and a sweatshirt for me. The top level of the market is actually a mall. We were hungry and expected to find food at the market, but since we didn't, we decided to get some cheesecake at a coffee shop in the mall.

We continued walking through Chinatown, which is right next to Paddy's Market and then ate at an authentic Malaysian food place called Mamak for lunch. I had the chicken satay with sweet and spicy peanut sauce and Troy had the chicken curry soup with potatoes.

It started raining after lunch, so we decided to go to the Contemporary Art Museum in the Circular Quay so we could be indoors for a while. I'm not a big fan of contemporary art, so I wasn't that impressed. There was a lot of strange art, but we did like a few things such as a room full of small glass sculptures in ponds and metal wire sculptures. After the museum, we walked through The Rocks again and went back through the CBD, including the Strand Arcade again, where we sat and rested for a while.

We knew we'd have a hard time finding food for dinner, so we decided to try to find a Greek place we'd researched before the trip to see if we might want it. We finally found it, but the menu posted outside was a little expensive for our taste. For some reason we were really tired from walking all day (and all day the past 12 days for that matter), so we went back to the hotel to rest and check out the observation deck on the 45th floor.

View from Hotel Roof on Vimeo.

We decided to head back to The Rocks to eat at an Italian restaurant we had seen earlier in the day. I had some sort of ravioli and I forget what Troy had. We also had some wine with dinner, which was nice.

The last thing we did was take the train back to Newtown for some dessert. We had cookies and cream cheesecake and english breakfast tea. It was nice to relax and think about all the fun we had had the past 13 days.