We were a bit miffed about not getting a free hat. We’d booked, arrived at the right time… but were disappointed. We discovered that thousands of people *hadn’t* pre-booked and had just ‘arrived’ yet they were all given a hat without any check made about who should or shouldn’t be on the bridge and/or get one.
We felt the least they could do was ration the damn things! When we got there there was still another 5 hours before the walk closed… still it was one small hiccough in what was otherwise a nice day.
We walked across with no problems. It really isn’t a hard walk at all and was quite nice without the traffic there to deafen and choke you. Having said that I think the oldies would have struggled.
In total through the day we walked around 17 kilometres and I’m not sure the old mans legs could have worked for that long. We might have had him sitting on the old lady on her wheelchair and pushed them *both* home! 🙂
By the time we were off the other side of the bridge and back in Darling Harbour we were shattered… *but*… were in possession of two souvenier hats!!
Twice the wife saw a group of people all wearing hats and asked them were they got them as our kids had missed out… and twice someone very kindly gave the kids one of theirs.
Just shows there is still some good in the world cos I doubt I’d have done it. We’d have asked for one each and probably kept them all.
As it is the kids won’t be seeing these for a while. I’m going to pack them into a plastic box with the other few little souveniers we picked up and leave them there and then… if any of us are still around… they can hoik them out for the 100th Anniversary and probably be the only people who’d have one! 😀
What a magpie eh??
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