#i love my grumpy sunshine chemist

[ryebecca]

"But people need to believe in something bigger than themselves." "Why?" Calvin pressed. "What’s wrong with believing in ourselves?" - Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus 🧪 ✨

[amybethmusic-blog]

I could have stayed here forever…except I might have died for lack of oxygen, the view was so breathtakingly beautiful!

Also my other half was back home and I couldn’t have stayed away longer no matter how much my heart craved more of this place, it also craved the person I call my home. Thankfully I wasn’t alone, I had my gang to keep the laughs rolling, the love flowing and the music pumping!

We started our great weekend with an adventure of a different kind, we were staying in a house owned by some of the girls family and I headed up armed with a selection of food to keep us going until we made it to the shops. Once we got there it was time for lunch, so I got out some Prawn Salad I had made in advance and sat down to eat with great anticipation…

  Olivia had never eaten prawns, but she has a slightly unnatural love for all things edible and was really keen to try the salad! About halfway through she mentioned having handled prawns for fishing bait and getting a rash, and I was a little surprised she was eating them. I pointed this out, “i’ll be ok” she answered. Fast forward ten minutes and we were madly driving around to chemists and doctors to see how much anti-histamine she could take at once and eventually a doctor gave us a hand, and we waved goodbye as Olivia took a ride to Port Macquarie hospital for the evening! She was fine in the end, but had to say goodbye to eating prawns ever again!

When Olivia and Jasmine got home that night we ate pizza and watched a movie, in the morning we got on our bicycles and headed down to the beach, it was a beautiful day and we had great fun playing musical bikes as we switched between riding next to each other all the way there and back. We followed that up with leftover pizza for lunch, and a trip to Port Macquarie for some shopping, coffee and ice cream on the foreshore.

It was such an incredible time, with so much laughter and adventure, swimming at dusk, walking on the beach by starlight, and late night movies with a glass of wine we’d never tried before. By bed time we were a little over-tired and some of us a little on the grumpy side…but it was worth it!

Our final day was one of the best, and we absolutely crammed it full to make the most of our time left! Coffee and croissants got us in the mood and we headed down to the beach for some napping, climbing, swimming and songwriting;

Kim and I, being a little weird over Breakfast! Photographed by Jasmine 

It’s amazing how natural songwriting can flow one moment, and how hard a struggle it can be to get words on a page the next. Jasmine and I sat here with this view, some notepaper, and she had her guitar, I managed to get some concepts on a page but that’s about all, and she was already playing stuff out on

her guitar! We all have our good and bad moments though, times of inspiration, and times of hard work…I decided it was too nice a day to work hard so I gave up! 😛

  We moved beaches to find a spot with some shade, and then we all got wet, the water was pretty cold, but when the weather is this hot and this perfect, who cares? We dragged Kristy into getting wet by splashing her until it was hopeless to resist!

  Kristy drove us everywhere, which was brilliant, because we got everywhere in record time and had more time for fun!

Not our best look…but an accurate depiction of our characters!

The bonus was I didn’t have to worry about finding money for a fine if we got booked 😛

We had to pack up and clean the house before we left, so we were keen to get moving for lunch so we would have enough time to drive up to the lookout to eat and take in the view. Hot chips, friends sunshine and a view like this, it was absolutely perfect!

Good times and great people make beautiful places into more beautiful memories!

Only about our years ago, I didn’t know these girls, except my sister 😛

Now I can’t imagine doing life without them!

“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there 

is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Proverbs 18:24

A Journey is Just a Road Without a Friend I could have stayed here forever...except I might have died for lack of oxygen, the view was so breathtakingly beautiful!