Family Cruising- Sydney
It’s incredible that the family cruise is already over! There was so much to do and see and I am TIRED. Those people took up all of my nap time! Cause they could nap while I was at work. I guarantee that as soon as my family leaves I am getting a cold of some kind.
That being said, I had a really good time with them! We laughed and chatted and bonded and it was such fun to have them here, to see my shows and get to spend time with them!
It just makes me want to go home all the more. Fortunately it is only a few weeks away!
For our last Sydney we dropped the bags off at the new hotel and went in search of breakfast! We walked 12min from our hotel to The Bean Brewers which is a small little café with AMAZING food!
I got a vegetarian breakfast with falafel, snap peas, and incredible hummus and aioli, avocado and an egg on top. It was fantastic!
Sam got a simple breakfast roll and mom an avocado smash and they were both incredible.
We stayed for a bit and used the free wifi in search of what to do for the day. The original idea was a tree-top adventure but my back on board time being a very early 2:45 we decided that was too far away.
We settled on the most bizarre thing we could find: Ice Skating on Bondi Beach in July.
Yes, I know that July is Aussie winter but that doesn’t make it sound less weird to my northern-hemisphere ears.
And we were on a beach!!
The ice rink was quite small and the fee was a whopping 22AUS per person for an hour but as a family- we really love ice skating. And we were doing it on Bondi Beach- totally worth it!
Mom used to take figure skating and it came back to her fairly quickly- soon she was weaving around all the people. We skated for about 45min before we grew tired of the circle and decided to explore the beach.
We walked past all the graffiti and found a perfect on for Sam.
And then started to head up to the lookout point.
Of course it was a little too far so we settled for a lovely view of the surfers and the ocean on some rocks that jutted out from the path.
We still had nearly an hour before I needed to head back to the ship so we went to Oxford street and looked for books at Harry Hartogs in the Westfield mall.
Sam is going to teach the 3rd grade this year and wanted an Australian book for her classroom.
Fortunately they had a whole section of Australian kids books! And she found a few great ones. Sadly it was time to say goodbye. But only a few more weeks and I’ll be relaxing at home again.
