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| It started off as a rainy day in Sydney town |
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| "Vanishing Point" - I was feeling artistic today, what can I say? |
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| Rainbow by the opera house |
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| @ Sydney Aquarium in Darling Harbor: This is a huge crab |
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| Jellyfish |
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| Again feeling artistic... don't the fish look like they are coming from the shadows of water? |
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| Gray Nursing Shark and Dory. Just in case you were wondering, I did see a Nemo and recalled he was an Anemone (such a hard word to say fast!) which for some reason finally made me realize why his name was Nemo. Duh! |
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| Vanishing tunnel |
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| Shark!! |
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| Dah-dum, dah-dum, dah-dah-dah! |
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| Favorite exhibit - floor to high ceiling Great Barrier Reef aquarium, with classical music playing. Gorgeously beautiful. |
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| Sawfish. Takes me back to my third grade presentation on these because my mom had a skeleton of the nose piece |
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| No Pinocchio don't go! |
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| Light show on the Opera House. Very cool, except when it's raining :( |
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| Pre-concert talk by conductor Oleg Caetani about Brahms and Shostakovich. He talked alot more about Shostakovich, who I hadn't heard of, and it was really interesting. I think Shostakovich and Solzhenitsyn would have been friends (though Solz was born 10 years later). They both survived Stalin's Great Terror. |
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| The orchestra for Shostakovich. The 3 part Sym No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 ended with very happy, upbeat kind of horse-trotting music. His sad and emotionally rebellious first part was 18 minutes, but the Soviet Union only would allow "happy" music so he had to end with an approved 8 minute happy finale. |
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