The alarm clock was set for 8:00 AM but we both shot out of our beds way before that because we both knew that today was beach day! The day starts like any other.. eating like 6 slices of toast each for breakfast. Mainly because the free breakfast offered at the hostel doesn't add up to much and they like to eat their cereal with warm milk which we both find rather disgusting. Riley eats it like a champ though. And so we were off to Bondi Beach, but not really knowing how to get there. We stopped at the travel store down the street from the hostel and the guy informed us that we will have to take both the train and a bus to get there. There were multiple reasons to be excited today, but one of the main reasons was because we were both taking our first train ride to the famous Bondi Beach. It seems that 10:15 A.M. will be our time for everything seeing as the last two days we reached our destinations at that time. We got off the train and figured walking a mile to the beach wouldn't be so bad verses taking the bus, but not knowing which way to go exactly we quickly decided that taking the bus down there wouldn't be so bad the first time. The ticket prices of both the train and the bus were not that bad; Train - 3.60 AUD for a round trip, Bus - 2.20 AUD for a one way. Stepping off the bus we were both excited to finally see water, smell the salt water and unfortunately feel the colder temperature. And the walk went as followed:
Of course we headed straight to the beach and laid out for a bit. With it being such a windy day we didn't last long but rather went to check out the shops instead. First thing we found were some great postcards! We started walking back into the town to find some ice cream and a Dominos Pizza that Lauren 'spotted.' Ice cream is definitely going to be a special occasion for us. Alex - Ben and Jerry's ice cream charges an outrageous 12.95 for a pint of ice cream! Are you serious! And then they show movies on the beach for 22.95! That's a no. We enjoyed the rest of the day close to the beach stumbling upon this park that gave us a great view of the waves crashing against the rocks!
Wanting to watch the sunset but also knowing we had to get back before it was too dark we traveled back through the town passing the Dominos Pizza. We had originally thought about grabbing some pizza, but they don't have the same great deals that the US has. Maybe pizza will also be a special occasion deal for us. Subway sounded like a better choice whenever we got back into Kings Cross bus station. With it being yet another exhausting day we went to bed early while everyone else in the hostel was getting ready to go out for the night.
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