12.July_What a Manly Ferry Ride

Saturday amounted to a pretty relaxing day. We all slept in a pretty good deal and then Gina, Mr Gauggel and I headed over to the rocks to eat at Pancakes on the Rocks.  I had pancakes. They were excellent, grilled banana, walnuts, cream, chocolate ice cream, and drizzled with chocolate sauce. That’s my kind of breakfast.

                  We then took a ferry (I get a bit excited about riding on the boats) over to Manly.  Manly is a sort of small almost touristy town, but at the same time has a pretty strong local feel to it with a good number of surfers and many little restaurants/stores that make and sell their own food like breads, meats, produce etc. It seems like it could be a cool place to live. Anyway, the reason we were there was for a nice naturey walk through some trees and eventually to a beach. We weren’t sure where to go and I think we ended up taking a wrong turn because we walked through some muddy nature and a park and ended up at a really smelly beach that was covered in trash. Nice. I don’t think our trip to Manly was as successful as some others on the trip, but we’ll just look at their photos.

                  After the Manly ferry ride, we came back to the hostel and then went out to meet Bill for drinks down on Circular Quay.  Bill was our GA for computer skills first year and he graciously let me live with him in Florida when I worked in Naples for co-op, so it was nice for the three of us to see him again. Just shootin the shit, chillin, you know. So that was fun, but I’d just like to mention that being on Circular Quay, this bar was rather pricey, amounting to a Mint Mojito for $15. Yes that’s right one drink for 15 bucks. Whoa.

 

12.July_Sunday

                  Let’s just toss Sunday in here real quick, we got up and worked on studio for most of the day, then had an informal meeting with Michael at his flat in Erskineville to talk about our projects. From there we went back home, didn’t really work too hard between our meeting and dinner. Which brings me to my next point, dinner was great. Andrew and I walked back to Erskineville (where people think we belong and asked us for directions on multiple occasions) to go to the Pizza Piatsa Café. We did not get pizza, but one of the best burgers of my life.  Bacon, egg, beetroot, Spanish red onion, lettuce, tomato, and cheese all on a burger. It was great. Australians are onto something with putting bacon, egg, and beet on everything. Then we worked some more and went to bed. Project due in four days…