November Wrap-up

Sorry (as always) for the late post. So in addition to Movember, Jess and I have been doing a bit of travel about the country. Here is a recap.

At the beginning of November, Jess and I ventured out to Royal National Park - about an hour south of Sydney - to check out the secluded beaches and to try out my new camera. We packed a picnic lunch and spent the day in the park traveling from beach to beach. It is a tough life but someone has to do it.



The following weekend I was sent to Canberra (the country's capital) on a last minute work trip. As a result we decided to make a weekend out of it and Jess came to meet me. Similar to Washington D.C., Canberra is full of National Museums and Memorials. We visited the Australian National Museum, New Parliament House, and the War Memorial. Unlike D.C., Canberra is very quite on the weekend as most of the residents live outside the city by a fair distance. In a way this made it nice, because we really felt like we had the entire city to ourselves.







Finally, at the end of the month Jess and I traveled to Tasmania for an extended weekend getaway. We flew into Hobart and drove nearly the entire East Coast. Along the way we saw Penguins, Kangaroos, Wombats and Tasmania Devils. We also met Priscilla the beer drinking pig...of course we had to see it for ourselves. We also hiked to the lookout of Wineglass bay.

Moonlight Cinema

After we purchased a car we decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood. We walked over to Centennial Park (5 min walk) to check it out. While we were walking we stumbled across something called Moonlight Cinema which happens during the summer. Basically there is an outdoor movie in the park everynight starting at 8:30. Guests are encouraged to pack a picnic to have during the movie. This sounded excellent to us as it turned out to a beautiful day. Tonight's movie was Bee Movie - voice starring Jerry Seinfeld. We packed a light picnic - using some fantastic wedding presents (thanks Katie S. and Kathryn W.) - which consisted of a tomato/rocket/parmesan salad and some beer & wine. We got to the park early to get a good viewing location and enjoyed our picnic while watching the crowd. This also gave us a chance to use our Snowgum chairs - which are great and stayed pretty comfortable even after 2+ hours.

We enjoyed this so much that we will most likely be back to check out The Darjeeling Limited when it shows in a couple of weeks.