Sydney - Day 3 - Evening Entertainment?

We went to dinner at a great Lebanese place, walked back through Darling Harbour and enjoyed some gelato to celebrate John's birthday. On our way back to the hotel, the kids enjoyed playing in the water getting quite wet in the process.

And then we got sucked into watching a street performer (y'all know it happens to you too!) As we pondered whether to stay and watch the entire performance, the guy called out to the "very American looking fellow" and asked him to join the act.

Here is John being a willing (?) participant. For those of you who have heard the mime story...enough said! Colin even got into the act throwing an unlit fire baton up to the performer, who would eventually stand on his bike, 20 feet in the air and juggle a chain saw, apple, knife and fire baton. Colin grabbed the wrong side and had very black hands for the rest of the show, but he made the toss on the first try. One of the funniest things of the night (aside from John being forced to hug an Asian man who claimed to be from Chicago and laying on the ground just because the performer told him to) was the woman that was supposed to throw the apple up to the performer disappeared halfway through the act and took the apple with her. Fortunately, there was another woman in the crowd that had an apple she was willing to share. We have Colin to thank for this unintentional humourous moment...we found out after that he had been waving his hand and pointing at John when the performer asked for volunteers.