Category: Family Day Out

Today we took the girls to see the Irish dance show Dance of Desire. We went with Mum & Dad (though had to take seperate cars). Before the show we managed to get lunch out.

We had debated doing some touristy thing in Sydney but Amy was in another of her “puberty” moods so we decided it wasn’t worth the hassle.

The show was very good. Not quite the cailbre of Riverdance – but that was more the choreography rather than the dancing. It was definitely an enjoyable couple of hours.

After the show the girls were excited to be able to meet some of the cast.

As you can probably tell we’ve been making a real effort to get out there on Sundays and spend it together. This week was no exception. The weather was glorious – definitely more Spring like than Winter like.

We decided to take the dogs to the local dog beach. They had a ball. The girls did too. Rosie had fun swimming out to fetch her ball, until it got lost. Bailey had fun following her, exploring and trying to eat the sand that Rosie & Christy were digging up. He’s such a crazy dog.

Don’t you just love the heart that Christy made on the sand – how cute!!!

We then drove by the dog wash to get the sand out of their coats and then dropped them at home. The girls had a quick shower and got changed (crazy girls actually went in the water). We then headed back out to the local airport. We had lunch at the restaurant and watched planes taking off and landing.

Unfortunatley my veggie burger was like nothing I have ever had before, and I obviously didn’t read the menu properly. I did order it without the bun (in case you were wondering). I didn’t really like the veggies so I ended up with Christy’s bread (which she didn’t like) and had a chip and beetroot sandwich – with suprisingly VERY good.

Kevin did enjoy his pie and Amy said her steak sandwich was okay. So I’m not sure if we’d come back here again. Maybe, it certainly was nice sitting outside.

After lunch we headed to the HARS museum. I had read good things about it recently on Tina’s blog and, like her, we were very impressed. We did get a VERY talkative guide so our tour was perhaps a little long (the next tour which started half-way through ours caught up to us at the end).  Amy really enjoyed it and so did Christy, but she got a little bored towards the end. And it was cool in the big hangers and none of us had jackets. Definitely a well worth visit for local and tourists alike.

Our last stop for the day was another visit to see Granny in hospital. She was asleep when we arrived but we knew we’d be in trouble if we didn’t wake her. We had a short visit and I believe she was asleep again before we left the ward :-).

Home to see our tired puppies and enjoy a family movie.

It’s been some time since we had a family day out, so since it’s been such Spring like weather we decided to go to the Illawarra Fly – using some vochures we received for Christmas (thanks Rod & Angela) that I had been saving for just the right day.

We really enjoyed it – it’s a nice little bushwalk to the start of the treetop walk. The views are amazing.

You can see the lake that we live by and the ocean behind it. It’s a beautiful part of the world.

We climbed to the top of the tower for an even better view.

The girls loved walking way above the ground.

Definitely worth doing, esp. if you’ve never done anything like it before.We found it a little disappointing after the Otway Fly – which we did last year and was much longer. A MUST DO for tourists to the area. Great views. We really did enjoy our visit.

After walking back up the hill (a workout in itself) we had lunch at the cafe.

Kevin and I shared a yummy roast veg frittata.

There was a stand with wildflowers for sale – which I couldn’t resist.

We then drove into Robertson and visited the Cheese Shop – where we of course bought some cheese, and a gelato!

Then it was back down Macquarie Pass

and to Shellharbour for a spot of shopping before heading home.