Manly Beach

Hey everybody! I am sure by now everyone has heard that the Crocodile Hunter - Steve Irwin was killed the other day... pretty sad, he was quite a character. Its the only thing on the news here. We are planning on heading up north to Brisbane, near his Zoo... its too bad we wont get a chance to meet him.

The weather in Syndey has been ok... mid 20's or so... but we are craving something a bit more.... tropical. The breeze from the ocean is still a bit chilly, and it gets dark at like 6pm, then the temp drops to 12 degrees or so - not nearly hot enough for us, so we are moving on. Our original plan was to go south to Melbourne... but its only gonna get colder that way. The Sunshine coast and Surfers paradise sounds a bit more appealing to us, especially if we are going to get a flat and jobs.

I added another photo album with pics we've taken this week... there arent too many because we have been hanging out at the beach quite a bit and you guys dont want to see any of that. : )

Yesterday we explored Bondi Beach and the Olympic park grounds. Bondi is really nice, but it looks a lot like Manly beach, so we are gonna save that for when Mike gets here **HINT HINT** - get your ass down here!! Oh ya - Shazna and Nadine there are TONS of shopping here, you guys would go crazy!! (perhaps another reason to come here... hmmm??)

Oh ya! They have ton's of different kinds of food choices down here. There arent really any large restaurant chains, mostly a million different cafe and eatery's. So we had our first sample of some Ocean Fish - OH man was it tasty!!!!! We are definitely hitting that up before we leave. I even convinced Erynn to try Mongolian Lamb (it was my first too... but dont tell her that) That was really good too! I honestly dont know how all these Aussies keep their rock hard golden bodies - there are fast food joints and pastry shops, candy stores, cake's and pies everywhere!! It seems like we get hungry every 20mins because we walk by these stores and it smells soooo good! We did indulge and try the made fresh daily Copenhagen ice cream - we nearly died it was so good. We had Rum and Raisin and I swear there was real rum in it cause Erynn was all over me after we had that... mmmm hmmmm.

Well thats about all I can think of for now... I'll try and update once more before we head to the sunshine coast, but I think we are just gonna laze around for the next 4 days - lay on the beach, bask in the sun (when its not cold) get fat eating all this food and sweets, and drink some aussie beer. Hope everyone else is having as much fun as we are back home!

And thanks for all the posts!! thats awesome! we love hearing from you all!

Nate & Erynn