Weekend Away

Friday we headed off to the big smoke for a few days. It was great to have our new car, such luxury with the comfy seats and DVD player. We stayed at Manly Beach in a great hotel right across from the surf. The girls will tell you that the highlight of the trip was the breakfast buffet, but we did other things, like ride a ferry, touch the tiles on the Opera House, touch the big bolts keeping up the Harbour Bridge and see all the animals at the zoo. The Baby elephant was gorgeous (all 100kgs of him) and well worth the trip.

Sunday we attend the Christening of my nephew Thomas, had lunch there and came home. It was exhausting, great and emotional and I am relieved to be home! How good is it to sleep in your own bed and have space where the kids cannot find you!

Here are some photos of the trip.

1192 Girls here on the Ferry from Manly to Circular Quay. Very cold and bumpy! At the Quay we bumped into our neighbours whom we NEVER see at home!

1195 Girls at he Opera House looking at the Bridge.

1198 Me enjoying the View.

1201 Justin!

1204 At the Rocks where a beautiful Rainbow appeared over the Opera House. Is that a Michael Jackson vision in the sky!!! Just jokes!

1207 Base of the Bridge where we inspected to bolts and imagined the huge screwdriver it would take to get them tight.

1210 Baby Elephant at Taronga. Holly wants to name it SATU, which means number 1 in Indonesian.

1213 Jess and Holly on the Sky Gondola at Taronga. We went on it MANY times – had to be kicked off!

1216 Sunday Morning frolic on Manly Beach after an hour in the breakfast buffet. Justin may have turned into bacon if I hadn’t pulled him away.

1219 Lovely girls at Sunrise on Manly Beach.

Have a great week!