We are having a great time. Saturday we picked up Andrew and Kari. They had spent the night with friends from Graceland. They'd attended a murder mystery party. The theme was the 50's and they had fun shopping at St Vincent De Paul, "Vinnies", for their costumers. After we picked them up we went to the Olympic park. We played a fun game of mini golf and looked around a little. Ryan had a Subway sandwich, it was similar except they don't have the oil and vinegar. The rest of us ate at a Fish and Chips shop and had a great meal. It was Saturday afternoon about 3 and we had trouble finding an open restaurant. Lots of people are gone since this is summer vacation for them. That evening we went to a Lebanese restaurant, where Jeff and Faye have been going for 30 years. It was very interesting and we all liked almost all of the food! Gwen and Brian, and J&F's son Tim joined us.
Sunday we spent 4-5 hours at the beach. It was warm and windy, but we had lots of fun body surfing and boogie boarding in the ocean. The beaches are great here. The sun is very strong, I put sun screen on 3 times and am still burned! Sunday evening we had Domino's Pizza and it was very good.
Today we took the train down town to Sydney to the Sydney Aquarium. It was very interesting. We saw 2 of the 5 dugongs in captivity, quite ugly. It's hard to believe sailors once thought of them as mermaids, they must have been at sea a long time! We also saw lots of sharks and a mini blue ringed octopus-about the size of an orange, but the most poisonous octopus alive. We also saw seahorses and huge sting rays.
Tomorrow, Gwen and Brian, will take us for a 10 KM walk. It's a famous, gorgeous walk from the Spit to Manly. It will take us near a lighthouse and along the water with gorgeous views of Sydney. It's a famous walk, in all the tour books. We will be warm though as it will be close to 90 degrees. So we'll wear our new hats.
Wed morning the kids will have a surfing lesson. Should be interesting!
Erik's been watching quite a lot of cricket. Each match is 5 days long and about 6-8 hours a day. I haven't been able to figure it out, but it's very popular here.
I hear it's snowing again in Portland. It's quite hard for us to fathom that as this moment! In fact, I think I'll go take a dip in the pool! Hope to hear from you. Just email us at nilsen6@comcast.net
Love,
Carla for Nilsen6
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