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| Day 6: | Monday, 9 September 2002 | ||
| New Thing: | Going to work with Tubby isn't all it's cracked up to be | ||
| Weather: | Clear and warm, mid 60s | ||
| Money Spent: | $ 7.05 AUS | $ 3.89 USD | |
| 6:45am | The alarm sounded, and ready for a new day and week, we both leapt to the floor. |
| 6:47am | It took a moment, but we then found ourselves wondering why we did that... sleeping in until 10am was nice. |
| 7:08am | Now quite annoyed we did all that leaping, we arrived at the train station. The train is 9 minutes out. |
| 7:17am | We're on the train, less annoyed... and a tad amused -- it's a school day, thus, school uniforms (ha-ha!). |
| 7:24am | Now who's laughing... them. We arrive at the office, pop open a Coke, and the day begins. ... of course, the events of the day aren't interesting, so we'll fast forward to the ride home. |
| 6:55pm | We hop the train on Platform 1 back to Circular Quay, and the usual transfer at Wynyard. |
| 7:24pm | Yeah.We're back at the hotel, manage to lighten the load of several bags, and venture out for food. |
| 7:32pm | Owing to the fact we've yet to wander along this end of George Street, we give it a go. |
| 7:38pm | Five blocks later, we find (yet another) McDonalds, and a Hungry Jack. Back at the Wynyard train station. |
| 7:41pm | After a brief and losing battle with ourselves, we venture in. The girl behind the counter, Jennifer, is both cheerful and pleasant, and didn't once make us feel stupid for ordering items off the menu just as they were written. We're also taken aback by the fact that we ordered almost the same thing as in Burger King (one extra chicken nugget here), and a different name for the soda, and the total was nearly $2 (AUS) less. Interesting. |
| 7:46pm | The liner of the tray talks about the Whopper, featured here at Hungry Jack's. Issues I have with this, to wit:
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| 7:48pm | In a surprising twist, as shown in this poor quality photo, the french fries container is made by Burger King. Curious. |
| 7:54pm | Observers described the gesture as "bold", but we got up and left, realising that we didn't care that much, truth be told. Dinner was consumed, at a $2 savings from expectation, and a soda to take away and be consumed on our walk back to the hotel. |
| 8:18pm | Our homework from the office folks was to watch The Matrix and Star Wars: Episode I. While we gave both a go on the laptop, neither wanted to play, complaining about display quality. Even after we fussed with it a bit. |
| 9:26pm | After lolly-gagging about the place for a spell, it seemed only fitting that we retire for the evening, what with it being such a rich and productive night and all. |