Clint - We did some more sightseeing today. We caught the train up to Town Hall and walked through one of the main parks in the city, Hyde Park. Next door was St. Mary's Cathedral. We then took a tour of the Hyde Park Barracks. Sydney was founded as a prison colony to relieve Britain of convicts once they stopped dishing out the death penalty for every infraction. The barracks housed many of the early prisoners at night. It was also used as an orphanage, immigration center, and administrative building before being turned into a museum. 
We then went to the Royal Botanic Gardens and viewed many interesting plants, including a nice Rose Garden, as well as many birds and bats that make it home. We must have stayed a tad too late because when we went to leave, we were locked in! We had to check several different gates before finding a guard who let us out with a cheery "No worries, mate".
After some dinner, we took in a true Australian sporting event, rugby! We had seen signs advertising the national team (the Qantas Wallabies) vs. France so we headed out the ANZ stadium (the Olympic Stadium) by ferry. We scalped some tickets for less than face value. They were end zone seats, but we didn't care, we didn't know what was going on anyway. I learned a good bit about the game, but also spent a decent amount of time people watching. The Wallabies won handily 22-6.
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