You’ll have to forgive me for the length and delay of this post. I’ve been without internet for the past few days. I’ll try to bring you up to speed on our adventures. On Monday as you can see from my last post we headed into Sydney for the day. This is the ferry that we caught in Manly. It was a really smooth and relaxing ride. Great view of the city as we approached.
This is the Sydney Harbour bridge as we approached on the ferry.
And the opera house in the distance just after we landed.
It’s spring break right now in Sydney and the kids are all out of school, I had to give this kid a dollar and take a photo. He was doing a great job of busking on the dock of the harbour. He made me very lonesome for my musical kids at home. He was playing one of the same songs that Bailey does and he must have been right around her age.
Eileen & Ian on the opera house steps. Then we headed into one of the oldest parts of the city.
And you can see from my previous post that I had a great day roaming around Sydney. On Tuesday morning we headed up to Hunter Valley Wine Region. I got a real kick out of the road signs as we were driving. The first one is pretty obvious – watch for kangaroo’s… it was the wombat sign that threw me off for a minute
Really nice farm land on our drive.
We stopped on the way up at the Wollombi tavern and had hands-down the best hamburger ever! The thing was massive!
It was a great little country pub. We arrived at our cabin and toured a few winery’s the first day. A very yummy and fun thing to do. Here is a shot of our cabin and the amazing rainbow that appeared one evening. Such a beautiful night.
Here’s a shot I took at one of “tasting” stops – this was at the Blue Tounge brewrey. Would you believe they really have lizards here with blue tongues? True story! And as a side note it’s a pretty yummy beer! They give you these paddles with 6 little glasses on to try each of the kinds they brew.
On Thursday morning we were checking out of our cabin and we found these lovely creatures milling about. Kangaroo’s are awful darn cute, especially the babies hiding in their mommies tummy…. but man the stretch marks must be terrible!
This photo of my mother-in-law I took for my parents… check out the size of the flowers on the side of the road… and this one wasn’t the biggest one by any means. Amazing!
Our trip to The Hunter was tons of fun and I’ll do my best tomorrow to blog some more about our surfing and fishing adventures today. It’s been such an awesome vacation! I think I’ve even talked Ian & Eileen into “Trashing the Dress” before we leave.
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