what's a gherkin?: second day in sydney: sydney olympic park :)

so. second day in sydney. i booked my flight back to melbourne for 7:30pm the day after passion, so that i would have a mostly full day to do some more exploring of things i didn't get to do the first time i was in sydney with the tour group! i headed out about 9am. for some reason, i've had this obsession of wanting to go see the sydney olympic park ever since i went to sydney back in september. so, i figured out where it was and took the train to go see it!

chooo choooo...

i was the only one on the entire train. and this is a really long train, lots of cars.

i guess because it was a week day and rainy, noone felt like going to the park. oh well.

the firs thing i saw when i walked out of the train station was the big ANZ stadium (or as they pronounce it A-N-Zed). ANZ is a bank here. like the RBC center.

cute little detail on the front of the stadium...

there were lots of sculptures in a big open grass area in the park..

this one was sensored to turn into a big fountain when you walked under it! ahhh!! i almost got really wet!

all around it on the ground were lines and lines of plaques. each plaque was either gold, silver, or bronze and had the name, sport, and event of each athlete who won a medal in the 2000 olympics.

woohoo swimming!

famous us athletes...

me being a lil' artsy...

aaand a lovely self portrait with the sculpture..

this sculpture was created to represent the 8 women who took part in the carrying of the 2000 olympic torch..

these big crane like sculpture lined a whole street in the olympic park. up close they each one represented a city that had hosted the olympics in the past. the name, year, and information was on each one.