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Sydney and the Great Ocean Road

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      This week was very exciting because my parents flew in from the states to visit me! We met in Sydney for the first leg of the trip. I got in pretty late, but we went to get dinner anyways. It was hard to find a place that was open, but we eventually stumbled upon a great Korean restaurant. We had some fabulous deep fried chicken covered in a spicy orange sauce with peppers, peas, and baby corn. My dad and I also had an excellent Korean blueberry wine, my first legal drink with the rents!      The next day we went to the Sea Life aquarium where we saw a ton of cool animals. They had 2 dugongs, one male and one female. This was really exciting because there are only 5 dugongs under human care in the entire world! I chatted with the trainers there for a bit, discussing how to train animals without being able to use positive reinforcement. (This is because dugongs are herbivores and are fed every 10-15 minutes.) The aquarium also housed a number of large sharks and had big glass tun