I love a good wedding

Hey hey, it's our 100th blog post, and what better occasion to blog about than a wedding?

We were lucky that our trip to Australia coincided with Shelley and John's wedding. Some of you will remember them from Amsterdam - Shelley worked with Ben at Media Catalyst for a while, and John made us a weird lamp because he hated our other lovely one ;-)

We had hooked up with these two lovely people for an evening of garden-fresh spinach and wine in Melbourne (having randomly bumped into Shelley in the street in Fitzroy). That was in mid-December, and they were both remarkably relaxed and excited about their fortcoming nuptials.

Fast forward a few weeks and suddently we're in a car with the lovely Leonie and Ash, on the 5 hour drive from Sydney back down to Batlow, in the Snowy Mountains.

That there's apple country! The wedding was held at John's folks' orchard - a beautiful place to get hitched, and we have to say that the whole thing went off in great style. Both bride and groom looked stunning (John scrubs up nice! So nice, in fact, that we hardly recognised him), the ceremony was the perfect combination of personal, serious and touching, the food was excellent and the speeches were really terrific, all round. Good job!

Highlight of the day (apart from the above) was Ben turning into a dancing maniac in response to Erik's DJing. Debs was absolutely beside herself with laughter, and Leonie kept on saying "Amazing! Amazing!"

Yes, they were both being serious :-) If anyone has any pictures, we'd love to see them, cos unfortunately, Ben had the camera in his pocket throughout his disco workout.

Here's wishing a glorious and super marriage to the happy couple.

Ben

England

So, we haven't posted in a while, but we've been busy spending time with friends and family in England.

After a lovely night at Clare and Jamie's for Jamie's birthday in Amsterdam, we dragged ourselves out of bed and got a lift to Schiphol at 7.30 with our great neighbours Chris and Jitske.

After we landed, we went straight to Sarah's house in Leeds then onto Claire and Paul's wedding party, which was really nice, with lots of cute kids running around, and suprisingly romantic when Claire and Paul did a first dance. Check out their moves:

Then onto Yarm. We spent a lovely week at my parent's house, where we tried to fix their crappy internet connection, failed to convince my dad that Comic Sans is a shit font, broke the exhaust on mum's car, trampolined, wet n' wilded, and shopped. It was lovely to see Mum, Dad, Shaz, Wayne and Bethany.


Whilst in Yarm, we went to a vegetarian restaurant called 'The Waiting Room' where we were joined by the Wilsons. The food was great, with massive portions, and we were really touched that everyone was willing to eat veggi for us - we had a great night. I have the best family.

Even though we live away and don't see them as much as I'd like, I'll still miss my family a lot, and got quite upset when I had to say goodbye. It's strange knowing we'll be out of proper communication for a year, but I'm sure we'll get used to it once we get going. Anyway, enough, or I might start crying again.

We're in Skipton now - with Ste, Zoe, Joe Rocket and the unborn - until tomorrow, when we're off to stay with Andy and Nat in Leeds, where I think I'm going to have to keep an eye on Ben to make sure he doesn't blow all our travel money at Nik's poker night.

Debs, x