Finally decided we had to leave the amazing vintage treasure jaunts of the Blue Mountains and drive thru the ridiculous fog. Made it in time to Shelly's in Narabeen to head into Manly for the Manly vs. Auckland NRL final. Still don't quite get it. But the Ivanhoe was going off. So was the church over the road that the bouncer suggested we go to if we were sick of waiting in line, as they were broadcasting the rugby with people packed in. We stared in disbelief as the church bells rang when Manly scored a goal. So wrong.
After the win we had a delicious dinner and headed to a pub or two. Shelly got serenaded by a particularly tipsy man attempting to sing opera. Tried to sit thru a terrible band with a lead singer resembling a 50 yr old Fergie. Witnessed a couple of fights, good ol Manly...
The next morning we were invited to the lovely Mr Dave David Dangerous Stingray Raymond Mannings place for an amazing brekky with Tenielle, Deb, Marissa, Buddy and Sonny. Dave tried to introduce us to his frill necked lizard in the backyard. Pretty sure it just wanted to bite his finger off. Left Dave with a thoughtful present.
Headed to Cenny Coast for some family time! First was Lizzies parentals and lovely brothers and wives and kids that all came for dinner. Thanks for having us, Josie and Bill! We wondered around Buff point and Lizzy showed us a cool old castle on the lake that a man built for his wife who tragically fell ill and died before he was finished building it, thus it was never built.. So we left Lizzie (finally got rid of her- gosh we missed her) and Tam and Ash went to visit the amazing glorious beautiful fantastic Josh in Dora Creek. Fun times were had by all at our new secret spot with views of pelicans and swans. Then off to the pub with Josh and Emma for $10 schnitzel night where we hung out with Joel, Trudy, Milo and Daisy Ashman. Cute crazy kids. Tammy helped Joel back at his place with a bit of late night bathroom renovating. Josh provided teas and films and awesome fruit cake and some sweet shorbinating. Josh, are we cool?
Next up was the beautiful Avoca Beach to see Jess and Ben, Mikyla and Nick, Aunty Di and Ceanne and Horace. They took us to THE best Mexican restaurant ever.. Rojo Rocket. Utterly amazing food and cocktails aside, it was the best decked out restaurant we'd ever seen. Looked like it had taken years and years to collect all their cool decorations. Think we might have to move to Avoca just for that restaurant...
Thursday we picked up Lizzie and headed to Dan, Lauren and Gen in Newcastle. Oriental pub with a quick stopover from Matt Purves. Stupid lemon game. Ping pong/beer pong. Ash loses a lot. On the way home after dinner we walk up Dan and Loz's street to find people getting ready for a protest. The next morning at 6am they were planning to cut down these fourteen amazing 120-yr-old fig trees. We were immediately intrigued...
After the win we had a delicious dinner and headed to a pub or two. Shelly got serenaded by a particularly tipsy man attempting to sing opera. Tried to sit thru a terrible band with a lead singer resembling a 50 yr old Fergie. Witnessed a couple of fights, good ol Manly...
The next morning we were invited to the lovely Mr Dave David Dangerous Stingray Raymond Mannings place for an amazing brekky with Tenielle, Deb, Marissa, Buddy and Sonny. Dave tried to introduce us to his frill necked lizard in the backyard. Pretty sure it just wanted to bite his finger off. Left Dave with a thoughtful present.
Headed to Cenny Coast for some family time! First was Lizzies parentals and lovely brothers and wives and kids that all came for dinner. Thanks for having us, Josie and Bill! We wondered around Buff point and Lizzy showed us a cool old castle on the lake that a man built for his wife who tragically fell ill and died before he was finished building it, thus it was never built.. So we left Lizzie (finally got rid of her- gosh we missed her) and Tam and Ash went to visit the amazing glorious beautiful fantastic Josh in Dora Creek. Fun times were had by all at our new secret spot with views of pelicans and swans. Then off to the pub with Josh and Emma for $10 schnitzel night where we hung out with Joel, Trudy, Milo and Daisy Ashman. Cute crazy kids. Tammy helped Joel back at his place with a bit of late night bathroom renovating. Josh provided teas and films and awesome fruit cake and some sweet shorbinating. Josh, are we cool?
Next up was the beautiful Avoca Beach to see Jess and Ben, Mikyla and Nick, Aunty Di and Ceanne and Horace. They took us to THE best Mexican restaurant ever.. Rojo Rocket. Utterly amazing food and cocktails aside, it was the best decked out restaurant we'd ever seen. Looked like it had taken years and years to collect all their cool decorations. Think we might have to move to Avoca just for that restaurant...
Thursday we picked up Lizzie and headed to Dan, Lauren and Gen in Newcastle. Oriental pub with a quick stopover from Matt Purves. Stupid lemon game. Ping pong/beer pong. Ash loses a lot. On the way home after dinner we walk up Dan and Loz's street to find people getting ready for a protest. The next morning at 6am they were planning to cut down these fourteen amazing 120-yr-old fig trees. We were immediately intrigued...
5.00 am - Lauren, Dan and us girls walked down to Darby street to join the other 10 people who got there early and sang Joni Mitchells "Big yellow taxi" and a song called "Give trees a chance" written by Suzie, who cant be trusted with a mega phone
8.00 am - left the hippies to get food and have a nap , they seemed to have it under control
11.00 am- decided to lend our support again before departing for smoothies
12.30 pm - left newcastle worried about the trees
2.00 pm- Dan calls us with an update, we missed all the action, hundreds of police trying to control the crowds charging the barriers and the people "locked on" getting arrested, not to mention 2 trees already being cut down
2.06 pm- For the first time ever the car is quiet...... sombre songs are chosen in tribute to the Fig trees
2.30 pm- A visit to Uluru cheers us up
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