Chilling in Manly

Well over the last little while Casey & I have just been taking it easy in Manly. We have been staying in Manly but we haven’t been able to enjoy the beach as much as it is sunny but very cool. We’ve been wearing long pants and layering the sweaters and Casey has been fighting a bad cold for over a week now. We had some awesome time hanging out with Jamie & Tracy before they headed back to the UK this week for 4 months. We met up with them and their friends who were visiting from the UK and got a chance to hang out at Palm Beach and see another amazing sunset & enjoy some fish & chips. Palm Beach is well known to Aussies and those from the UK as a TV series call Home & Away is filmed there. We enjoyed brunch with Mick (with backpackers united) & Jamie talking about ideas and dreams. We also got a chance to have dinner with Aaron & Treen again which is always awesome to see them. Besides that we have gone for some relaxing walks, enjoying coffee together & reading. It’s been neat to meet different people at this hostel from all over the world Israel, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Tahiti, England, US & Canada just to name a few. A lot of people here in Manly have been here for a while and are working so some have been here for months. Wednesday (May 23) we went to Ocean world here in Manly and watched the shark feeding but it was a lot different than we thought as they almost had to be force fed. We had fun seeing how most of the spiders, fish & snakes are poisonous here in Australia. Thursday morning (May 24) we had a crazy awakening with the fire alarm waking us up at 3:30 am. As we were going down the stairs there was what seemed like smoke and the foam from the fire extinguisher everywhere. The fire trucks came. They found that there was no fire (Thank God) and it was someone who had grabbed two extinguishers and just sprayed them all over the hostel entrance, stairs and elevator. Also Thursday night we hung out with Kristi & Stu from here in OZ and enjoyed a wonderful Thai dinner then went to look at the city from North point. As we were leaving North point we found that we been locked in as the area closed down at 10pm.....opps. After about an hour we all of a sudden saw a whole brigade of army truck drive up behind us and so they ended up letting us out. Alway a little adventure!