This evening we all packed up our picnic gear and headed to Penshurst to revisit the 'old days' of our lives - pre kids. This would be achieved by visiting one of our old food places, grabbing some takeaway and eating in a park and then walking down some streets that have traditionally had excellent outdoor Christmas light displays.
The dinner itself was reasonable - not as good as we remember but not awful either. The park was very nice and the kids had a great time. We probably played for about 2 hours before deciding it was dark enough to wander on over to the streets with the lights.
LGR was quite excited and enjoyed the lights. There were many questions and excited noises. Mrs G and I remember the street being brighter, louder and much more crowded - but the lack of crowds didn't worry us.
Towards the end of the walk it looked as though it was going to pour so I ran back to get the car. We jointly decided to head over to Lugarno - rumour had it there was a pretty good light display.
In the end we found it - and so had the rest of Sydney (seemingly). In essence it was a single street which was mostly nothing out of the ordinary, but with two houses that were very very bright. It took close to 30 minutes of queueing in the car to get to the street, and then about 5 minutes to get down it.
I wouldn't queue to do it again but am glad to have seen it just the same.
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I got my first drive and cycle on the M7 today. The road itself is quite impressive and certainly an impressive construction effort. Having said that I would be very surprised if I use it all that often - $6 to get from my place to the M4 seems a touch steep and if I used it for work the daily trip cost would be $20 - $12 for the M7 and then other $8 for the M2. All for the sake of saving anywhere between 0 and 15 minutes (on average).
The cycle track is a different kettle of fish - 40km of interrupted roadway which joins up with a myriad of other bike tracks to form an integral part of the often referenced BikePlan 2010
I like the bike track :-)