How was your day dear?: December 2012 Archives

The last of the three brothers of this family to get married, in an Australian-Greek-Chinese wedding.

 

So quite a lovely wedding, and a good time was had by all.

But special mention needs to be made of the "professional" photographers.  I haven't been to many weddings that have had professional photographers, so I don't really know what's normal.

But I didn't think walking down the aisle with the bride was

Or getting in everyone's faces during the ceremony (at one point the priest waved one of the photographers away)

Or sharing the dance floor during the bridal waltz

Or getting *in the middle* of the Greek dancing

Or sharing the exit limelight with the bride and groom

Personally, I found their behaviour to be not very professional at all, especially at the church.  My cousins agreed, and they even later made a formal complaint.  So when one of the photographers was overheard complaining that he couldn't get "five minutes" alone to work (when he'd just *had* five minutes alone, *and* the shot he was complaining about wasn't even setup by him), well you're hardly going to get any respect or sympathy.  But hopefully the photos and video they get will make it worth it.

Anyways.  Congratulations Andy and Crystal :)

Boxing day morning we headed off fairly early, dropping the oncall laptop off at Neil's and stopping at Maccas Watson for breakfast for the sweetie and Maccas Sutton Forest for coffee for the sweetie.

Also stopping at Lake George to see the water

The destination: lunch at my parents' place with D&Y and the uncles and aunties.

Dessert included this gingerbread house which we demolished (apparently my lens was all wrong for this photograph #grunt)

Took a while in the afternoon to recover.  Didn't need dinner (I stole a bit of Dad's).  Then stayed the night at my parents'.

So after doing a bunch of prep work, we went over to Potty's at 3pm for a Christmas "dessert and drinks" - ie, not a full meal.  So I brought along another cherry pavlova.  But there's a reason they say not to make meringues on humid days - they absorb all the water in the air and go all soggy!  I actually made the meringue layers last night, so they had all day to get soggy.  It wasn't *too* bad, but not as good as the one I made the other week.

Today we went out to Fyshwick after work to do some outdoorsy shopping (directors chairs etc).

Today was food shopping day.

Worked from home this morning (couldn't face going to work).  And then wandered down to Tony's for their section's Christmas party (which I'm apparently an honorary member of, go figure).  Was a lovely (if slightly hot) afternoon, where *much* food was consumed, and a keg of Zierholz german ale.

Wednesday night various members of the clan were in town, so we went to Bella Vista for dinner (it's tradition after all!).  I haven't seen Thomas and Courtney since probably 2009.  Thomas will be old enough to drive next month - how scary is that!  All the kids are looking much more grown up!  

After the busyness of the past week or fifty, we had a quiet day today.  Didn't even leave the house.  Did some of what I wanted to do (including ten blog posts) but didn't get other things done.

The club had a small Christmas party last night, so we went along to it.  It was a little too cold to swim, so just sat around drinking and talking before dinner, which was a pot luck dinner (we brought a potato bake), and then a spectacular dessert.

Went along with various family members to have Noah's birthday party at Ardeche.  Us grownups enjoyed it, and we think Noah did too, but I have a feeling his expectations were a little different to reality.  He did make a pretty good effort with his food though.

After the last Christmas party, volunteers on the day were all invited out for drinks.  I took great delight in saying I was at my boss' boss' boss' boss' boss' place for drinks and pizza :)

Last official work Christmas party of the year.  This was the most time-consuming - 7:15am til 5:30pm essentially, with a couple of hours break in the middle.

Another Friday another Christmas party :)

The little brother arrived in town fairly late last night.