I love the beach!

This last week has been fun!!

So on Monday, Adam came home and told everyone that they were gonna go to the Beach for a long weekend. Then he said to me that i get a free long weekend all by myself..and i dont know what my face was doing but it most of had a longing for the beach because after a few seconds he said, "Well i mean unless you wanna come with us?" Then i had todo the whole, Well that would be fun but i dont wanna impose sorda thing. But they all seemed fine with it and he said there was an extra bed so it wasnt a big deal i would just have to share a room with the girls. Witch i could careless lol 

So my short work week just got way better. Then on Tuesday i got to skype with a bunch of people..i got to see Mom and Gma I...i got to see Pam Rowland and i got to see a couple other people it seems. Anyway i also got my big box of candy from mommy that i am already making a big dent in. lol 

Then on Wednesday Kerry picked me up after i dropped the girls off and we were headed for the beach!! Her in-laws have a beach house about 45 min away and its right on the Avolon beach.  So we thought we would head up there and have some lunch! When we got there it was perfect weather and awsome veiw!!

So we stayed there all afternoon and let the boys play around on the rocks and i had to at least jump in it was my first Australian beach encounter.  But the water was FREEZING!!  All the beaches have a man made rock pool..for kids or just so the waves arnt to high, so we went swimming in there.  Then we went home and i got the girls and that was that.  When we got home Pip had stayed home from work and everything was ready togo for the Beach House, and i had to pack.

Thursday morning we all got up and got everything together and Adam had to see if everything would fit in the car and we were off by 9am, It  took a little over an hour of a drive to get there. The town is called Avoca.  Just a tiny tiny beach town right in the Central Coast.  So when we got there we unloaded and set up the house and had a look around and then we were off to the beach..witch was just a tiny path away!

This was our view!

So we stayed out there pretty much the whole day..going from laying on the beach to playing in the water...building sand castles....finding shells and me trying to catch the crabs. Me and Adam jumped off some rocks witch was fun!  It was pretty nice.  Then at night after the girls were in bed we would watch a movie and drink..just like home!! lol

The next day was awesome..we woke up and went and got a coffee and then off to the beach bright and early....the tide was way out so we could go way out and found some pretty awesome shells. I almost got my crab..when it snuck under a rock i put my hand down there and all i heard was a loud loud snapping sound so i looked in there and there was the hugest crab ever...sooo scary so i stopped lol   We pretty much did the same thing just hang out on the beach. The girls covered me up with sand so that i could be a mermaid. After that i realized i was gonna have sand EVERYWHERE all weekend long. lol

I went way out into the waves just to splash around and farther in there was a midge..i pretended like i was watching the girls but i was just watching her and totally eavesdropping into her and her friends convo lol and she was all, "these waves are gettting really really big"  when i was out double what she was and i was still touching when the waves would come lol but ya Friday was awesome because it reached like 32° (89°) i even got a little bit burnt!

Saturday when we woke up was kinda overcast and not very warm so we decided to go for a drive to some of the little near by towns. The one we wended up stopping in was The Entrance..i was so weirded out by the name that every place we went into or that i saw a sign  that said " Entrance here" i was like im going into the entrance in The Entrance lol sooo weird anyway we stopped and had coffee and it was perfect timing because it start to drizzle and as were sitting there in this big courtyard under an awning we saw about 4 or 5 people fall lol it was pretty funny i was trying not to laugh to hard lol

Then there was this ghetto little carnival that had 3 rides, and so the girls went on those and it was cute!  By the time we got back ot had started to clear up a bit so we went our for a walk along the beach.  When we started to head back i noticed there was a bunch of people standing around...when we got closer i saw that it was a wedding and they were all taking pictures...so of course i wanna be in the background of their pictures so when we get right in front of them i start posing in the background or i waved...i was cracking up at myself...Pip thought it was pretty funny too. SO some random people may or may not have me in the background of their wedding pictures  lol

That night it start down pouring rain....and it didn't stop until Sunday night.

So Sunday morning when we woke up it was just dumping buckets of rain, so we just packed up and went home. It was so funny though when Adam went to load up the car he couldnt get it very close to the house soo he had to run back and forth in the rain and he put on his cozzie just because it was sooo wet....so as hes trying to load the car fast and ends up being all klutzy, dropping things..Pip and me just are inside cracking up at how funny he looks lol  

So when we get home its to late for me to get ready and go to meeting so i called mom and got to talk to her and Sean and Dad. Then i got ready and Aylce came and got me, because they were having a surprise "start pioneering" party for Rachel. Well it was pretty much just a bbq with all the usual people that we all hang out with.  So that was fun. We had dinner and then dessert and then some of us played cards and some watched a movie.  There is this card game called 500 and it was my first time playing and i beat everyone lol it was pretty much like "Oh Rats" except you have partners or you can do some other things. So that lasted all night, i didn't get home until around 1am.

Monday was fine..nothing to exciting...i started loosing my voice and i wasnt feeling to good...so that made it worse when Imogen was being all crazy cause i couldnt get my point across when i couldnt talk ugh..but it all ended up ok. Its so funny Madeline is turning into a mini me.

So that was my fun weekend and i did have alot of fun!

Some things that are weird about Australia though is:

Almost every restaurant is BYOA...Bring Your Own Alcohol. So everyone shows up with big bags of Alcohol or a couple bottles of wine or somthing lol I have never seen anyone order drinks...or places don't really have drink menus.

Everyone is so proper or at least trys to be and no that that's a bad thing..i just feel bad for the younger people. Like they are all "Oh we need to have hor dourves and then we can have out cup of tea" like

why cant we just have chips and a pop or something. Or if someone does bring chips..."Oh we need to get that in a bowl."  Why cant we all just share out of the bag? its just everything has to be just so. And these are teenagers talking. Also just the things they eat are def more cultured i guess.

Some movie tittles are changed so they make more sense to Australian's i guess. One example is "13 going on 30 "  they call it "Suddenly 30"  sooo weird.

There were a few more things that i thought were weird but i don't remember them..oh well

♥lynds