Wedding

In order to stop this becoming the MOnster Truck blog I thought I should write something quickly!

On saturday Chris and I drove 2 hours into the bush to attend the wedding of Chris' collegue Mike. It was our first Ozzy wedding, so we were very excited. The drive up was beautiful, coming through the great Diving Ranges and some rainforest and seeing lots of little tiny Australian towns. When we arrived at the hotel we were staying at I was quite shocked as it was a beautiful looking golf resort with 2 swimming pools, a gym and a sauna- all in the middle of no where! I needn't have got too exicted though as the rooms and facilities did not live up to this description. THe room was motel esque and the pools were old and dirty. I might have got in the outdoor one if I had had my bathers but there was NO WAY i would have got in the indoor one! Anyway, it was an ok place for one night, all we really did was sleep there.

THe wedding was just over th road in a revamped village hall. It was quite a small affair so Chris and I felt very priveledged to be there. The service itself was outside, which was lovely, except for the fact that the temperature rose to the high 30s and swarms of flies kept attacking us. Luckily I think the bride must have covered herself in fly spray as they stayed away from her.

The reception afterwards was inside the hall with outside caterers. The food was lovely but a little starnge! The main course was a COLD Sunday roast with added cold meats etc. THere was cold baked spuds, cold roatsed pumpking, cold roast beef and EVEN cold yorkshire puds, (the groom was ENglish and these were a special request apparantly!). I couldn't quite come to terms with the cold vegies but the rest I did fine with and desrt made up for any dissapointment as it was a selection of gorgeous cakes, biscuits and fruits- very yummy!

The evening was lots of fun, even though I didn't know anyone. THere was dancing, lots of drinking and even the speeches weren't bad. When we eventually deciede to leave the party the walk back over the road was funny as there was NO moon and it was pitch pitch black. Although for us it was pretty uneventful (but a little scary) another of the guests said they came face to face with a kangeroo when they walked home!

The morning after we were a bit worse for wear but we still enjoyed a lovely reakfast and toook an alternative route home- down a single track, un concreted path through the rain forest- very beautiful. A great weekend had by all.
Love Helen