more Sydney sights

Sydney is a great city and we had a lot of fun there. One amazing building was the Queen Victoria Building, a block long and five or more stories high it was originally build as a municipal building but now houses lots and lots of shops and restaurants.

 Inside there were still many features from when it was built in the early 1900s. This huge suspended clock was stunning.

 The spiral staircase did not entice me. Happily there were escalators.

 The Chinese New Year was being celebrated while we were there. Australia gets lots of Chinese tourists so there were lots of signs and displays announcing the "year of the dog".  Much cuter that if it had been the year of the rat.

 This display of dogs suspended from very fancy balloons made me laughl, especially this dachsund because my son drew a picture for me two Christmases ago of a dachsund suspended by balloons.  I think they stole his idea. And speaking of my son, he likes to wear bowties, so I decided to buy one for him at a shop in the QV building that had ties on display. I was informed by an only silghtly condescending sales clerk that their ties ranged in price from $500 to $2,000. Needless to say he will not be getting a tie as a souvenir.