Sunday, March 11, 2007

A day full of adventures

We had a magical day with Bernice at the Rocks, a street market in the city (close to the Harbour Bridge). With a map from the hotel, we began our adventure. After a short while of walking, we decided that we should take a bus to the Rocks, which was at the end of George Street. We thus had our first experience of taking a public bus in Sydney with Bernice. It was her first experience too!


Our first stop after we alighted the bus. Much to our delight, we were welcomed by the ice-cream stand! Bernice had a peppermint ice cream and we had a lemon sorbet. We had a great time walking down Circular Quay with our ice cream.


Bernice was really easy to hang out with. She was especially mature, sensible and well-behaved. On top of that, she was very cooperative whenever I fussed over her to keep herself clean. She was puzzled why I brought her to the toilet so many times to wash her hands. Nevertheless, she was always ready to oblige. I caught her puzzled look once and broke into a giggling fit that I could not stop. She laughed along with me in the toilet!


Our second stop was at the Rocks. It was a street market full of interesting items. We had fun browsing and snacking on roasted, caramelised almond nuts.




The rest of the pictures were taken by the great photographer - Bernice Tang! We discovered another hidden talent of this bright, beautiful young girl. When she was taking these pictures, she had the stance of a professional photographer and the passerbys were all quite amused and impressed by this little girl.


Morning mole conversation


Ethan showing off his only mole.

Ethan: See, I've got a mole here.
Me: Is that the only mole?
Ethan: Yes. But yeye has lots of moles.
Bernice: Plenty.

Day with Bernice


Bernice pictured with a McDonald's frozen cola at the street side bar.

"Why gu jie doesn't want to ask? It's better to ask then we can find out. It's better to find out than to be caught by the police."

- Bernice, at the street side bar that Sharon and I were having a drink at. She'd wanted me to check with the bar if it was alright for her to have her McDonald's frozen cola there.


"Can we ask God to help us protect the things?"

- Bernice, in the car when we had to return to the Hilton Hotel toilet to retrieve the bag we'd left there.