We were invited down to Terrigal recently to stay at a beach house with Simmy, Jonathon and some of their friends (including Eric from Ruse and Angela who works near where I do – small world!) Angela and Simmy were the organisers and the house they picked was pretty flash with a great kitchen, nice big TVs and plenty of beds.

The traffic wasn’t too bad – the drive down was far too short, it’s only an hour or so away from Syd but that’s perfect for a short trip.

Fun was had by all on the beach (Simmy and co made a…mountain!? with a…moat??) and in the town, mini golf in Mingara, Tumbi Umbi was great even when it started raining at the end and the pizza place we went to was delish. Hopefully we’ll get some pics from the mini golf later.

 

Me and Andy (mostly Andy) made chicken schnitzel one night but we were under a lot of pressure to measure up to the other gourmet meals the others had made earlier! Speaking of which, Simmy and Jonathon’s Japanese Takoyaki balls were very nicely done. The mini-trip ended annoyingly when the car was bombed while we slept with flour and eggs. The gloop was really tough to remove as it had baked on pretty hard in the sun. Tip: use the pan from a plastic dust pan to scrape it off.

 

It would have been nice to stay for longer as we were having a lot of fun (even with the people we’d never met before! Those of you that know how socially awkward me and Andy are will be amazed by this) but yeah we had to get back for the Fernando Family Christmas Party and help prepare. Stay tuned for pics of the Christmas festivities and possibly New Years pics if we remember to take them.

~Andy and Smily

2 Comments:

• Wow that looks like a great little break. I’m jealous. All I have been doing lately is working working and more working.
  Hey I wanna see a pic of where you put your chrissy present!
  Have a great new year,
  love and miss ya MWAH

  Comment by jo jo — December 31, 2008 @ 7:59 am

• Pics are up Yeah its good to take a short break every now and then if you can but soon you’ll be having a huge long one!

  Comment by Smily — January 10, 2009 @ 2:44 pm

Just got pics of Rachael and Matthew’s wedding up at Kurrajong, it was very nice wedding and the lunch time reception was an awesome idea.

It was great seeing Vanessa and Alexis again they were great company (along with Vanessa’s fiance also called Andrew) and meeting some of Matthews friends.

We wish the lovely couple well!

  

Here are the photos!

The whole gang! Morpheous, Cr@zySquid, Smily, Andydapooh, Thor!

Check the size of them meals!!! Haha, I only got 2 pics before my phone ran out of memory…. I’ll have to get the other pics off Dennis (Thor)

Lol really quite large meals there…. Very nice also!

Just realised I forgot to link to pics of Ray’s visit, so i’ve added another album down the side called "Friends".

Hi everybody!

We have a visitor! Raymond has popped in for a few days. hehe missed his flight, like only he could…. here now tho! i’ll get smilymapie to upload some pics later.

I have taken my first annual leave with tradelink. only 2 days, but thats still pretty sweet after not taken any days off for almost 4 months i should still have 30 hours owed to me

Annnnyways, toodles for now!

Andy

2 Comments:

• Hi! Andy what is the minimum you want for the golf and cricket gear? How long was Raymond in Sydney for? You seem to be having yak weather there, we were suppose to get very strong winds etc but it wasn’t as bad as they thought it would be. Lots of rain though which is very good. Later when Sumali isn’t so busy I’ll get her to go to the quilting shop to see if they have any quilting magazines with DVD included.
  I have finally got a date when I start at the Primary School, the second week of the third term. Last week in July. So that will be interesting I hope.
  Catch ya later, Luv ya.

  Comment by dana — July 6, 2007 @ 12:34 pm

• Hiya Dana,
  Umm, $50 for the cricket… and $150 for the golf gear, assuming it hasn’t gone rusty… Ray was here for 3 nights, , was meant to be 3 days, but he missed his flight, so it was only friday and saturday during the day. Lol yeah, weather hasn’t be the best, but i have wet weather gear so i dont mind. I’ll have to get smily to check out the quilting place on the weekend. we can do that now that shes finished at myer:) Awesome stuff bout the primary school, hope it works out well for you. Andy

  Comment by andy — July 12, 2007 @ 4:49 pm

After our poker night, Andi and Rhyl bought their own poker set and invited us around for a game (with real snacks instead of our dodgy ones! yay!)

More photos at Andrea and Rhyl’s website. I must say i’m a little worried about the "incriminating" videos that are mentioned. Hopefully none are of the karaoke!

~andy and smily