DATELINE: sydney, Australia                                                    

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Author: Nick

Day 2:

Eliott cooked pancakes for breakfast! We then hopped the ferry downtown and hit the Rocks, the oldest part of Sydney. We spent half the day wandering the narrow cobblestone streets, had a long lunch at a 150 year old pub, and checked out the Rocks museum and learned a few things. I always knew Australia was first settled by a bunch of convicts and their keepers. What I didn't know is that the British established the penal colony in 1788 because they recently lost the place they had been sending their convicts for years - America!