Some of the wedding pics

Here are some of the pics from the wedding yesterday.

Wedding Morning

After a restless nights sleep, I'm sitting here, on the bed whilst the hair and make up production line kicks into full swing. Yup, this is wedding morning, and the primary reason that K and I came to Perth - Angela and Greg's wedding.
The weather isn't too great at the moment - had some showers about an hour ago, but the forecast is that things will clear up this afternoon. I hope so for Angie's sake, as the ceremony takes place at King's Park, which overlooks Perth and the Swan River. Its a great setting, but could get quite chilly if the weather doesn't clear. We're holding thumbs Ang.

Had a great day yesterday - Ann, K and I caught the train into Perth, and then jumped on another that took us to Fremantle, or "Freo" as the locals would say. Freo reminds me a bit of Melville in SA, with that arty, student feel about it. Its loaded with history, and we decided to take a tour of the Fremantle Prison, which was just fantastic. It was used from around 1855, through to 1991, was built by the convicts over a number of years, and although not at first, it eventually became the maximum security prison in Western Australia, and was the scene of some 44 executions. Really interesting to see the solitary confinement cells and gallows, and to think that up until 15 years ago, this was all very real.

And no, there is no subliminal intent in starting this post off talking about wedding days, and ending it with a description of a prison. Its just coincidence that it worked out that way :-)

My duties for the day:
a). Make sure that I get to Kings Park on time
b). Get ice for the drinks bag
c). Drop drinks bag off at Frasers, for tram trip
d). Get as much of the ceremony as possible on film

I think that's about it. Hope so.

Off with Annie now - the production line is slowly chugging away, and this is no place for a man to be. I'll rush in later, shower, change, shave - and make my way to Kings Park.

We're in for a great day.

Its good to be on holiday

Been in Perth for 5 days now, and really starting to relax and get into the slower paced life that is lived here. It helps to be on holiday of course. The one thing that I'm battling with, more so than K it seems, is the change in time zone. Its taken me almost four days to get used to getting up in the morning - I feel like I should still be sleeping. Mind you, the fact that I had a 24 hour day on Saturday (Greg's bachelors - or "bucks" as they call it here) didn't help the cause.

Anyway, some news of what we've been up to:
- Sunday was spent recouperating from the previous evening, where copious amounts of Bourbon and cola were consumed. Thanks for introducing me to that Gareth...Greg and I felt great on Sunday :-(
- Monday was pretty relaxed, didn't relly get up to much. Went down to the beach with K, and had a swim on the ocean. We then went to fetch K's aunt Annie, and spent a good hour on the highway due to a fire that had broken out further up. After having been diverted, we then fetched Annie from the Burswood hotel. Was good to see her again - we realised that this was the 3rd continent that we had met up on.
- Tuesday was also pretty relaxed - ended up going for a haircut, and getting some meat for a braai that Angie had planned for later that day. We all then met up at the place that Ang and Greg are currently renting - all of us being: Greg, Ang, Annie, Ross, Shelley, Danika, Gran, Alva, Greg's mom Ann, K's folks Roy and Sharen, and K and I - all in all a great evening.

- Today, we went through and met up with my cousin Michelle, baby Connor, Rose (my aunt) and her parents Bob and Shelia. It was the first time that K and I have met baby Connor - really happy child. They're out here for another couple of days, and it was quite fortunate that our schedules coincided, and we were able to meet up - as they stay in Milton Keynes in the UK. So yeah, its been a real family gathering for both K and I.

Tomorrow, we intend to go through to Rottnest Island, and have a walk/cycle around there if the weather holds up. Its been between 35 and 37 degrees celcius for the past few days, but had changed for the worse today. Quite cold and windy at the moment - but I'm sure it will clear up soon enough.

The bonus about being on holiday, is that we only have to worry about what we're doing tomorrow, tomorrow!