January 15, 2017

It is Sunday and we are thinking about our dear Church family and wondering how many families here attend church regularly.

Today we have had a free day and have gotten up latter around 7:30 am. Most mornings we have been off and ready to go by 8 or earlier.

Today we ate a lovely hotel breakfast then caught a 10:30 am guided tour of Sydney's Botanical gardens
(160 acres in the middle of down town) the gardens are across the street from our hotel.  We then caught a small train ride to get a view of the entire gardens.

Had lunch at the garden terrace at the gardens.

Came back to hotel and took a swim and will join our group tonight at a restaurant on the wharf.

Tomorrow will be a tour of the opera house and a fly

 to New Zealand.