Christmas on the Beach
We spent Christmas at Manly beach with our friends Tracy and Andy who were visiting from the UK. Check out the the slideshow below.
Some Notes on the Slideshow
- We took a ferry from the city to get to Manly. The Manly ferry is apparently world famous. I guess I'm sheltered because I didn't hear about it until I got to Sydney.
- Andy is grilling up lunch on a communal barbecue. Many parks and beaches provide both propane and the grills. This has to be a uniquely Australian thing.
- Lunch consisted of beef sausages, veggie burgers, grilled peppers and onion, kalamata olive tapenade, hummus, veggie sticks, crackers, crisps and cake (lots of cake).
- The paper crowns Jean, Tracy and Andy are wearing are part of a English tradition that also involves a toilet paper roll and painful puns e.g.. Why did the golfer bring two pairs of trousers? This one has Jean doubled over with laughter.
- The sandcastle I'm building is a not so exact replica of Angkor Wat. This one apparently developed a gopher problem.
- Tracy and Andy are on honeymoon. The running barefoot on the beach requirement somehow got slipped into their prenuptial agreement. Damn those lawyers.
- Those no swimming signs are just suggestions.
I'll let you guess who's who |
Some Notes on the Slideshow
- We took a ferry from the city to get to Manly. The Manly ferry is apparently world famous. I guess I'm sheltered because I didn't hear about it until I got to Sydney.
- Andy is grilling up lunch on a communal barbecue. Many parks and beaches provide both propane and the grills. This has to be a uniquely Australian thing.
- Lunch consisted of beef sausages, veggie burgers, grilled peppers and onion, kalamata olive tapenade, hummus, veggie sticks, crackers, crisps and cake (lots of cake).
- The paper crowns Jean, Tracy and Andy are wearing are part of a English tradition that also involves a toilet paper roll and painful puns e.g.. Why did the golfer bring two pairs of trousers? This one has Jean doubled over with laughter.
- The sandcastle I'm building is a not so exact replica of Angkor Wat. This one apparently developed a gopher problem.
- Tracy and Andy are on honeymoon. The running barefoot on the beach requirement somehow got slipped into their prenuptial agreement. Damn those lawyers.
- Those no swimming signs are just suggestions.
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