The other top story was that a girl in the office where this photo was taken held up a sign with her number on it and one of the snipers called her - I don't believe it but it is entertaining none the less.
Anyhoo, this morning I arrived at work to see a group of about 20 people standing outside the office (it has to be said, most of them were from my department) and apparently George was on his way. So we all had much fun standing around and getting excited anytime the police (of which there were loads) moved. After a while they stopped all traffic on our road and the cross-roads and a series of small motorcades came through - most of them with two police cars and two dignitary's cars. A little later (was not feeling in the mood for work having left the office at 10.30 the previous night) some police bikes pulled up and we saw the start of George's motorcade - a whole load of police cars, two limos, what seemed like 20 other cars, an ambulance and one massive 4x4 that one guy claimed had the nuclear "football" (he had obviously been watching too many films). Much excitement for a Thursday morning.
(orange building on the left is new Amex building, the next building is mine, then there is George and his friends, then the curved stone building is Moretons - a pub we go to when we are too unimaginative to think of going anywhere else)
Later we watched (what we think) was George's boat motorcade going to Darling Harbour - big cruiser boat, a couple of rubber boats, the police on jet skis and a few other police boats.
Final adventure for the day was the sad accountants in my office staging a mock anti-globalisation demo:
You can tell I work in the technical department!! (their signs are against International accounting standards- I know, how sad)
Adam and Emily were also most entertained seeing the riot police out - we saw about 10 riot squad cars and water canon on Monday - today we saw three riot buses. It is all very entertaining and slightly distracting from the fact we move house in a week! I have tomorrow (Friday) off work as it is an APEC holiday - but only in some parts of the city - all of the city centre but not all of greater Sydney - so there will be much throwing of things in boxes.
