Here is the first picture taken on our trip...doesn't look too promising when we had a 4 hour flight to San Francisco followed by a 14 hour flight to Sydney to look forward to! Fortunately, Kiran did great. Aside from a night terror while we were still on the ground in San Francisco (Yes, we were on the ground, boarded for over 3 hours before our 14 hour flight actually started...needless to say United won't be getting our $$ again!), Kiran did great! He didn't sleep much on the way there, but he was generally well-behaved and kept himself entertained even though we didn't have seatback TV's...ugh!
Here he is burning some energy at the San Francisco airport. Thank goodness for kids areas. He has so much fun, and was seriously sweating he was playing so hard!
The Sydney skyline...well, part of it anyway.
A couple of self-portraits in front of the Opera House.
One of about 674 pictures of the Opera House and Harbor Bridge.
Kiran getting ready for the Opera House tour. Little did he know that he would bring back a souvenir from the tour...an injury! As we were walking up the stairs to one of the venues in the Opera House he walked straight into the corner of the stair rail. He recovered quickly, but when I took a look a little while later noticed a little puncture right on top of his head and it was bleeding. He's still sporting a little scab on his head from his Opera House injury. Poor guy.
More Opera House...if you look really closely, the three of us are sitting on the stairs. How we were able to pull this off with a bazillion other tourists on the steps I'll never understand?
Kiran running up the steps all by himself...he was very proud when he got to the top raising one arm in victory!
More just across the harbor from the Opera House.
You guessed it..more of the Opera House. Kiran goofin' around with Papa and Chacha.
Harbor Bridge. If you look really closely you can see people walking along the top of the bridge!! Scary!
Kiran and Mama waiting for the train.
The Sydney Botanical Garden was just beautiful...my favorite part was the bats! This is a shot of a tree just full of bats hanging. There were dozens of trees just like this. And at dusk they erupted with bats. It was so neat. The bats were so big they looked like BIG birds flying through the sky.
More close ups of the bats.
More in the botanical garden. The trees were absolutely amazing! They were so big...you get a glimpse of that by seeing just how enormous this tree trunk is with Nishu and Kiran standing inside a crease in the trunk.
More in the botanical garden...with the Opera House in the background, of course!
Paddy's Market - so much fun shopping and such good deals!
Some nice family shots with the Harbor Bridge in the background.
Kiran and Bua walking with his "mop." He found this branch and became very attached. It was his mop and he cleaned the botanical garden with it. It also doubled as a guitar sometimes (Big surprise, I know!). He carried it around ALL day. Unfortunately, we left the "mop" behind at a restaurant but Kiran was already asleep, so we managed to avoid a meltdown over the loss of the mop.
More fun with the mop.
We did a day tour of the Blue Mountains. Unfortunately, the weather was bad our entire trip! Sydney had gotten so much rain that the park (where Kangaroos live) was closed because the roads were flooded. Boo!
We did still get a really nice tour, including this waterfall...
The "Three Sisters", which are the three stone peaks you see. There's an aboriginal story behind this...http://www.bluemts.com.au/tourist/thingstodo/threeSisters.asp
More in the Blue Mountains. 
Kiran checking out an aboriginal stone carving.
I got so close to this bird to get a good shot while we were walking to the waterfall...so pretty!
We also took a drive through Olympic Park. The Olympic complex from 2000 is still completely intact and every building is being used. It was pretty neat. The area that the complex is in was completely uninhabitable 15 years ago because of pollution, but it's been totally revived, is beautiful and green, and has this incredible resource for Sydney now. It was pretty neat!
More from Brisbane and videos to come...
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