DAY 26: A MANLY PICNIC

I left one important detail out of my DAY 24 blog. Manly is a hilarious name for a town. Everything is the Manly Store, the Manly Café, the Manly Restaurant, the Manly Lingerie Shop (okay, I made that one up but you get the point). It’s pretty humorous especially to someone who has a simple sense of humor such as me.

God Bless the Queen and her inaccurate birthday. I love three–day weekends. Anyway, a group of us students had been talking about doing a picnic for quite some time but never actually gotten around to it. Today was the day. We had originally planned on going to Bondi Beach – a beach right here in Sydney – but changed our mind because many of the students hadn’t yet been to Manly. So back to Manly we went. Twice in three days. I guess you could say I am pretty….manly (refer to me having a simple sense of humor in the first paragraph). We packed PB&Js, some chips, some cookies and some apple juice and off we went. We had another gorgeous ferry ride. The weather has been awesome the last four or five days – a nice change of pace. We got to the beach, found a picnic table and had a delicious, beautiful picnic right there on the beach. It was a great idea and a great time to just hang out with some new friends at the beautiful beach.


The Manly Beach.


Ocean-front property anyone?


Some of the crew hanging out at the beach.

After lunch, we walked down to one end of the beach and just sat and relaxed for about an hour. I ended up taking a nap and it was awesome. There’s nothing better than taking a nap on the beach…well, maybe ice cream.

Refer to DAY 24 blog: We went back to that ice cream shop – The Royal Copenhagen. I love the place. I had another ice cream cone and again, it was scrumptious. This time I went with White Chocolate Caramel Fudge and Devil’s Chocolate. Fjdkn0[42mp (sorry, that was me wiping the slobber off my keypad). We did some more walking around and eventually headed back to the wharf. We had a great manly fairy (I know that was the wrong spelling but it’s funny to read) ride back at sunset and were very happy with our day and full bellies.


This program should include a personal nutritionist.

Pictures from the Ferry ride back




I came back, made use of the pool and gym, and then made some dinner. Although it was my second time to Manly in a three-day period, I don’t regret it at all. Unfortunately, I go back to the real world of classes and work tomorrow but I am really starting to look forward to my Cairns trip this weekend. I can’t wait. As for tomorrow, I have class and who knows what. Until then…

Cheers!