Do you know what day it is?? It’s Cupcake Saturday!!! :-D

And my confession: I had two cupcakes today! Because I’d intended to go to the same place, but before I got there, I stumbled upon another cupcake place that had teeny tiny cute cupcakes, and they had cinnamon latte flavor, so I had to have one, but it wasn’t big enough to satisfy my cupcake craving for the day so I still had to go to the same place. And I got banana flavored there. Not posting a picture (even though I took one) because it wasn’t quite as cute as the red velvet. But still tasty!

And I don’t feel guilty about two cupcakes, because I seriously walked all of Sydney today and burned it off, but we’ll get to that later…

Yesterday I went to the park for lunch again and walked a bit further and discovered that just beyond where I’d been sitting are all these awesome water views, so more pictures from the park and the harbour:

And more bird friends! Duckies!

And I got pictures of the view from our conference room (there's a little bit of window reflection, but not bad; not sure why the first one is so much darker):

And yesterday the office did Friday night drinks after 5, so I did that, which was fun, and then some of us who had hung around till near the end went for Chinese food. That was all I did last night; after-work-drinks and Chinese food, and I somehow didn’t get home until midnight.

Today I was up relatively early and got my homework done early like a good girl (took much longer than it needed to due to my internet speed!) and then headed off after lunch to walk across the bridge and see about doing a bit of shopping. So, last week when I walked across the bridge, I got off the bridge’s walkway at the first staircase available, though the walkway continued. This time I decided to stay on the walkway to see where that ended up, since the first staircase had led me to a place that I’m still not so familiar with. Well, another opportunity to get off the walkway came along shortly afterwards, and I thought “no, I still want to see where this goes” – mistake. I ended up stuck on that walkway with no other exit opportunities for ages and ages, and it led right to my office – in a way that cut about 10 minutes off last week’s time due to not having to wait at crosswalks and wind through various streets but still significantly longer than the train – but today I had no intention of walking towards the office. Sigh.

So then I had to backtrack by land pretty much all the way back to where the original staircase was because I wanted to check out The Rocks – this cute little old fashioned section of the city which does street markets on Saturdays. It was pretty cool, had clothing stalls, food stalls, souvenir stalls, etc, and a fashion show when I was there; they might do more entertainment throughout the day. But anyway, all I bought there was my mini cupcake, and then I walked back towards the maze of malls, which is significantly south from there, walked around there a bit but again, didn’t buy anything (everything’s so expensive!! There was one store having a clearance where everything was $5-$20, but their stuff was pretty hideous; everywhere else cost an arm and a leg) except a cupcake and tea and juice.

And then I walked all the way back up north through The Rocks again to the original staircase to the bridge (and I had to do more backtracking to find that staircase!) and back across. My calves and back were hurting me by this point. That was 4 hours of walking! I’d say I earned two cupcakes, no?

And! OK, do you see this thing that I have highlighted in the below? This shows up on all my pictures. It's a pain. I tend to crop it out of most of the photos before I post them here. I've wiped my lens. It doesn't go away. I think I may need a new camera!