Thursday morning we'd arranged to speak to my dad and Alison so we popped out of bed bright and early to be ready for that. A lovely start to the day and meant we were up in good time to get lots of bookings made. Then with that all sorted and home made lunch in our bellies we headed out.
Plan for the afternoon was to head to Manly so we got the bus down to circular quay to get the ferry. We felt like regular boaties after our river trip yesterday. Was good though because the ferry went the opposite way, to North Sydney, and so we got different sights such as Pinchgut Island. The lovely history to this is that it where where high security prisoners used to be taken, chained and fed only on bread and water until their stomachs shrivelled.
Arriving in Manly we headed straight down the high street to the beach
which was very busy considering it was a Thursday afternoon. I'd been sad there wouldn't be time to swim however most people were on the beach rather than in the water as it didn't look that warm and a bit of a breeze was starting up.
Sure enough by the time we came back out from shopping for sun hats the sun had gone entirely and been replaced by ominous skies. As someone who wasn't trying to sunbathe the weather was quite exciting. We grabbed coffee and went back to the ferry and by the time it took off he heavens opened and the storm began.
So in contrast to our sunny river trip yesterday, this ferry ride rumbled with thunder, was pounded with rain and as we approached the opera house it was backdropped by dramatic fork lightening!
This was all very exciting from the comfort of the ferry but we then got soaked running into the city to meet Jo at Australia Square. The plan was to have a drink in the bar there to look at the views however it was closed to the public because they were doing a magazine photo shoot so we got the train straight to Newtown.
We had a brilliant eve out in Newtown; the studenty big brother to Glebe. We did a bit of a pub crawl, drank lots of yummy beers and had pub dinner (to which Jo treated us despite us putting up a good fight). I rolled out of the taxi after the short ride home straight into bed and was snoozing in minutes.
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