Well, I've touched down in the Land Down Under! So exciting to finally have made it here. Jess and I flew into Sydney, which is a city I've always been looking forward to visiting. I'd had these romantic and exotic visions of a sparkling, beautiful, clean city full of beautiful people. Well, as it turns out, Sydney is anything but sparkling, beautiful, and clean (beautiful people - sure, though no more so than any other large city!). In fact, the first thing I saw was a huge layer of smog as we descended onto the airport runway - a layer that would rival what I see in L.A. on a regular basis. Ok, fine. But then we enter the subway system as we leave the airport and I'm shocked by how old, smelly, grungy, and nasty
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