On our free day we walked around the gardens in Sydney. This picture shows us walking around the wishing tree. We had to first walk three times around it forward, then three times backward. After that we made a wish. My wish was for the Cubs to win the series, but Charlie informs me that taking pictures of the tree might jinx the wish. I assume that someone took a similar picture and made the same wish in the early 1900's. This was a beautiful day, and afterwards we went to the opal museum and walked around the business district before have a group dinner at night.

--posted by Louis