July 6 - Scenic Views and Brews

Today was a day!! All five of us conquered the Coogee to Bondi walk. We started the day right with a breakfast of champions. Gosh I could get used to this.

surfer dude and surfer dad

This walk, when taken with leisure, photos and videos, will take you about 2.5-3.5 hours. The walk was not as flat as I remember, so if you are planning on taking this be sure you can handle a fair amount of stairs. After an early start to get the walk in, we went for lunch at a Thai restaurant near our airbnb.

We had some time to relax and clean up before taking the ferry out to manly beach. I love this place! We even got to see the Sydney harbor with a sunset. The ferry is about a 30 minute ride.

Once we got to manly we walked along the beach and shopped at some of the cute aboriginal art and boutique clothing shops. Timing could not have been more perfect today and afterwards we made our way over to 4 Pines Brewing company to do a beer tasting. In Melbourne at my bar we sold 4 Pines beer, and the reps had come down from Sydney to do a beer tasting for all of our employees. I loved the beers so much that I had my family come out specifically to have some tasting flights! Enjoy some of these pictures from the evening!

my best friend in the entire world

beautiful little streets in manly town center

treasuring the little moments with this amazing couple

They were decent prices too- each tasting panel had 5 beers for $20. We loved the interior of the brewery, which is actually a restaurant and bar as well. There is an upper area which was packed because it was a Friday, and then there is a lower area which was much quieter and we chose to chill at! Some of our favorites were the Nelson Lime Double Blonde and Oaked Baltic Porter. They also have amazing ginger beer if you’re into that. After getting a bit tipsy, we met up with Tae (Mine and Shayna's friend who we met in Vietnam, and who I saw last time I was in Manly).

We met at Wharf Bar which is a beautiful bar/restaurant in the manly wharf. We had a delicious meal and a few more beers with dinner. It was lovely seeing Tae and having him meet my parents. This is now the second time this week a past friend of ours is meeting our parents!

Afterwards, we headed back to the business district where we were staying and Chris came over to pregame for our night on the town. Shayna and I met Chris in Melbourne when we were out, and he lives in Sydney so it was perfect to hang out again! The spot we chose for the night was Burdekin. It is a multi-level techno club and the dj’s were bangin’. We stayed pretty late and had a nice boogie! Chris is one of those people you can go to a club with and not have to keep checking in on them and seeing if they want to be in another spot or if they want another drink, the whole night just flows. We had a wonderful time, despite Shayna and Ben ditching us!!