Sunrise in Sydney

A few students and I made an 11pm decision to wake up the following morning to catch the sunrise at dawn. Despite the 4:45am wake up, the sunrise made it completely worth it. Although Maggie was out there first, awake and chipper, I didn't actually expect to see Julian and his seemingly reluctant roommate Greg to be standing outside in the cold, but alas, there they were at 5am. We caught the 5:02 bus to Circular Quay, (pronounced Circuler Key, although it's quite hilarious when foreigners, especially Americans, called it QU-ayyyy, and even better when they manage to mispronounce Circular as well...) and rode with surly commuters, bitter they need to leave the house at 5am just to beat the morning traffic.
Maggie showed us an ideal location to watch the sunrise, on the pier just across the water from the Opera House. It was spectacular; just as it was rising, the sky glowed like a volcano that was erupting molten lava. The pictures came out fantastic, justifiying such an early rise to what promised to be a long day.

I had to remind myself that our librarian Lorraine wakes up at that hour every day just to get here on time to campus at 8:30!