February 29 - Sydney, Australia

We had a leisurely morning since we don't arrive in Sydney until 2:00 pm.  We played our last trivia game with Steve and Leona (Jan and Tom were still under "quarantine") and did a poor 10/15.  No surprises there.  Just as we were approaching the beautiful Sydney Harbor, Jan and Tom were cleared to leave their cabin.

Hooray!  We made it to Sydney and they will even let us off the ship.  There were 2 huge Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines ships also there - the Ovation of the Seas at anchor and the Spectrum of the Seas in port.  We heard that the Ovation was being used to take firefighters who had fought the recent fires on a free 3 day cruise down the coast.  If true, that is a wonderful thing they are doing.

We had a harbour cruise tour today and it was a beautiful day for it.  The weather was perfect: 78 degrees and sunny. There were some big sailing races going on so the harbor was very crowded with other boats there to watch the races.  Got a few nice pictures.

Not our ship!

All the ferries are named after the 11 original ships that brought the first bunch of convicts to Australia

We got back just in time to have one last dinner with Jan and Tom.  We'll really miss them.  It's been wonderful to have this long time together, even if the cruise wasn't quite what they (and we) were hoping for.  And we said goodbye to Steve and Leona too.  Maybe we'll see them again in Maui where they live.  Leona promised to send me a photo she has of all of us.