Since I didn’t have class all week until Thursday, I decided to take advantage of my time off. I joined a gym, which for me, is a big step. I haven’t really worked out since I played lacrosse, so my junior year of high school. I’ve been a few times since then, but with little to no regularity. This spring I started running because I realized I needed to be somewhat in shape. The running was going well, but I was doing nothing in terms of weight training. Now, I’m not trying to get huge, I just want to be in good shape and be healthy.
The gym I joined is just a block away and is probably the nicest gym I’ve ever been in, and like most things around her, the price reflects that. Apparently we got a good deal by being students, but it’s still an expensive gym. They threw in a free t-shirt and a visor, because lord knows we all love visors. Supposedly there is a free towel coming our way soon, but they needed to order them. Chances are we’ll never see those towels.
It’s only a three month membership which means it will get me through September. If we want to upgrade it to another month, it will only be another $25, so they tell us now. Who knows if they’ll stick to that agreement since we never got any of that in writing.
But anyway, I’ve gone to the gym most days, taking a few off in order to give my body a rest. I’ve been running first, then doing some weight training, so hopefully when it becomes bathing suit season here, I’ll have that beach bod. Of course when I get home it’ll be winter and no one will be able to see my hard work, and chances are, by the time New York bathing suit season comes, I’ll look exactly like I do now. Oh well.
But other than joining the gym, I’ve been trying to take advantage of this amazing place and all it has to offer. One day I had lunch on the rocks overlooking the Tasman Sea with a few of the housemates. 
And the next day we went to the Sydney Aquarium.
The aquarium is located in Darling Harbour which is right in Sydney. According to Wikipedia, they have over 650 species, and over 6,000 animals. All the exhibits show the different species that live in the waters of Australia. They even had a platypus!
I didn’t bring my nice camera so none of my pictures turned out that well. So I’ll steal a few to put up here. I’m sure I’ll be back there at some point and I’ll make sure to bring the DSLR.
Anyway, they had all these really cool Lego statues all over the place. I love Legos, so it was really cool to see all these things made from them. They were huge!
They also had a few of these awesome underwater chambers. You walk underneath the giant tanks and there’s fish, rays, sharks and even a dugong swimming over you. It was definitely one of the cooler aquarium exhibits I’ve ever seen.
They even had penguins there! The penguins seemed preoccupied and you couldn’t see them very well. I’d go back just to sit in front of the penguin tank all day long.
(Of course it wasn’t as cool as the penguins I ACTUALLY GOT TO TOUCH in Tampa!)
But I’ve been trying to take advantage of all my opportunities while I’m here, since chances are, I’ll never get a chance to do something like this again. There’s still a ton I want to do, but I have a lot of time to do it.
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