Today Eve and I headed out to Middleton to do some surfing. We hired surfboards and hit the beach. Unfortunately there was a very strong rip tide and the waves were also fairly large and pushed us around a bit. But we did get to ride a few although not for very far. We are definitely not surfing experts, that's for sure. There was also an enormous amount of seaweed that had been pushed up to the shore with the rip. At one point we ended up drifting into the seaweed and having to wade through it for a while. It was disgusting! And after we finished we both had seaweed stuck to us everywhere! Ew.
After we got tired out from surfing, we headed into town and got some fish & chips for lunch, which we ate at the local park. Delicious! Then Eve took me to Wirraway, the camp that she worked at for two years as the cook. It was great to see her camp and meet her coworkers and friends from there. At the camp they have a lot of horses for horseback riding, a low ropes course, a flying fox (zipline type thing, but you have to pull it up the hill yourself!) There's also a pool and a games room. They have a tricky puzzle of two horseshoes connected together with a ring attached and you have to try and figure out how to get the ring off. Eve taught me how to do it and I could even do it behind my back (I guess that's the hardest challenge!)
That night we headed out to the Beards concert. It was great! They had so many fun and funny elements to their show, including a totally staged "competition" to prove that people with beards are smarter. They also had beardless "servants" wearing togas and waving palm fronds at those with beards, and feeding them grapes off of silver platters. And the band sounded great. I was really impressed. Afterwards Eve and I grabbed some food and had a bite to eat with her brother Joel (lead singer) and his girlfriend Becky. It was a really fun day and a great night, too.
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