Weekend Fun

Since this is one of our last weekends without guests, we did a series of random activities with our favorite pair of people, Casey and Nicole. Here's a photo of them diving in the Great Barrier Reef. Doesn't it look amazing!


On Friday, we checked out a different type of movie theatre. It's called Govindas. You can get a package deal for dinner and a movie. They have an all vegetarian buffet and after you've stuffed yourself you go upstairs to let your food digest.

You get to lie down on these bed/couch like things while watching the movie. Luckily for us, there were 4 of us and they had some beds that were made for 4 people to share. Therefore, we weren't lying next to any strangers. We had decided to catch the earlier movie, which was smart because the later movie had tons more people in line. We couldn't figure out how all of them were going to fit into the theatre!


On Saturday, the original plan was to go to the pool or beach and then play some golf in the early afternoon. Since we were trying to rush too many things into the day, we decided to move golf to Sunday and we went to the pool all day. The four of us had our own raft so we were able to enjoy the sunshine lying around.

While Casey and Nicole went to a fancy, paid for dinner, I cooked David dinner. For dessert, we decided to check out Max Brenner, which is this chocolate dessert place that it's in our ferry terminal. We've found a new night time activity for the multiple guests that are about to arrive. We had chocolate fondue that was delicious and we finished it off with a cup of hot chocolate. Sugar overload!

On Sunday, we had brunch with Charlie and Lily, who just moved into our building. After brunch, we went to a bar to watch the Patriots win! Casey and Nicole also joined us at the bar along with Ben, Avaleigh and Ajay. Though there were many anti-Pats fans at the bar, we showed them who was the better team to cheer for.

After the game, the fantastic four headed over to the golf course as dark clouds started rolling in. Since the man at the pro shop didn't believe we'd be able to finish our 9 holes, he gave us a super discount. David and I paid $17 for both of our 9 holes. That's only $8.50 a person!

Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera, but the club hire and buggy hire for Casey and Nicole was hilarious. They each got their own small blue leather golf bags that held their 6 clubs. The size of their golf bags were about 1/4 of the size of David and my bags. They put their tiny blue bags onto their yellow buggys (pull carts). Sometimes, when they stopped at their ball, the buggy would tip over since there wasn't enough weight with their tiny bags.

We had a great time even though it began to rain on our 3rd hole. We even finished all 9 holes in the rain. On the first hole, the sprinkler system started up near the green as soon as we were on the green. The sprinklers never seemed to turn off even though it was raining. We ended up playing speed golf at the greens since we had to try and putt before the sprinkler would rotate and hit you. On the final hole, there was a river in the middle of the green and the hole was waterlogged. We couldn't even finish it out.

Thanks for a great weekend guys! Thanks for trekking out to Manly 2 days in a row. We'll definitely make sure to come to Paddington sometime this coming weekend.