Beach days

Friday and Saturday were both sunny, warm days. Which meant.... Beach days!!!

On Friday, we got ourselves up and ready and headed out to Manly. We caught the Manly Ferry from Circular Quay, which is half the fun of going to Manly, I think.

This bird landed on this pole thingy at the front and rode there for a long time!

And we just rode in our seats.

We got to the beach early, so it was pretty quiet. These brave people got in the water!

Here's what Michelle's face looked like when the water hit her feet.

We had a good day at Manly: hanging out under the umbrella, eating snacks, and just generally enjoying the day!

After all that beach fun, we headed back to the city, cleaned up, and went to Jamie Oliver's for dinner.

We closed out the night with drinks by the harbour while the sun set - a pretty hard day to beat!

The next beach day was Coogee. We started with breakfast at Badde Manors, one of our favorite vegetarian places in Sydney.

It's very common to have beans and avocado with breakfast in Australia, so the vegetarian version had that too.

Yummo beach breakfast! 

Then we caught a bus over to Coogee! We started out with three umbrellas:

Toby called this "tent city"

But after many hilarious attempts, the wind took one down, and the other two quickly followed. It was vicious!

That did stop us from enjoying the beach. We walked over to the tide pools, and Chris even got in the cold water for a swim.

View of the beach from the tide pool

The look on Chris' face makes me think it's cold!

Once we were ready for some shade and cool, we moved into the park behind the beach and had a picnic there. We closed out our beach day kicking the soccer ball around the green.

There was no Jamie Oliver's after this long day out: just snacks, games, and a movie!

We love beach days!!!

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