Coogee and Dinner with Bert

Today (Wednesday) my mother and I got up and made pancakes at the hostel's DIY pancakes. We are there first and thankfully made our pancakes before everyone flocked downstairs. We then went down to Circular Quay and caught a bus to Coogee. It was a nice sunny day for Coogee, but windy, so we were bundled up most of the time.

We got fish and chips for lunch and walked around Coogee a while, taking some amazing pictures from atop the hill overlooking Coogee. After a little confusion involving bus tickets, we caught the bus around 3pm back to Circular Quay.

My friend Bert, who I first met on my last trip, offered to pick us up for dinner and take us to Little Italy. He arrived outside the YHA around 6:15pm and we went to one of his favorite Italian restaurants, tucked in an outdoor mall near the airport. We ordered a bottle of wine, a margarita pizza as an appetizer, and our mains. Mom got a pasta with chicken and avocado; I got chicken and mushroom risotto, and Bert got a risotto with tomatoes and prosciutto. It was all delicious, and so much food! After dinner, Bert took us on a tour around Sydney in his car. He took us through Bondi and around all the winding hill of outer Sydney. He dropped us off safely at the hostel, and so tired from the day, we went to bed almost immediately.