Lovely day out

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Today was a great day with friends and family.  We went to a local reserve, Nurragingy Reserve (it's named after an Aboriginal man, one of the Wianamattagal clan (South Creek Tribe) of the Dharug people who inhabited the area before European settlement in 1788.  Our friends Rick and Marilyn are the ones we went with to Kiama a few weeks ago.  We have been friends since Kylie was a baby.  She grew up with their son and their daughter Nicole.  Kylie and Nicole are still good friends and now their children are too.  So it's a three generation friendship, which is pretty special.

The three boys - our grandsons Cameron and Luke, and Nicole's son Daniel, had a ball riding their bike and scooters, exploring the paths and generally keeping their mothers and grandparents on their toes trying to keep track of them.

Marilyn, Peter and I went for a walk and Peter took this photo of the two of us at one of the waterfalls.  We ignored the 'do not climb on the waterfall' signs - but only a little bit vbg.

Apart from 4-year old Luke going down a hill too fast on his scooter and taking a tumble with nasty grazes resulting, then a couple of hours later getting his foot caught in the bridge and Cameron falling in the water trying to dislodge Luke's foot, it was an uneventful day.  We won't go into the matter of how Luke happened to be near enough to the spot he was to get his foot caught by slipping on the seaweed in the pond lol.......... 

We have all had a kiss of the sun - not enough to be sunburnt but enough to know we've been outdoors (forgot the suncream.  Oooops!).  The fresh air - well, we were still in the suburbs so it is still city air.  But Nurragingy is 40ha and it has some of the last remnant bushland in the area, so it feels as though it is fresh air.

Most of all there was a lot of laughter and good company - all in all a lovely day out.