Marty and Jess' Wedding

So Mom and Dad left, but with not so many tears as we have had during departures before. We are getting better at it, I guess. It also helped that Mom and Dad had access to the VIP lounge in Wellington due to their business class flights (from using their AIRMILES points). They got given some special treatment in the lounge and as it sounds, they got special treatment the whole way back to Canada. Except from Mother Nature, however. They left us at 25 degrees and got welcomed home to -25, black ice and lots of snow.

We have been having great weather and this past weekend was no exception. We were invited to Marty and Jess' wedding in Napier, so we headed over and spent the weekend with Carl and Denise, who also went to the wedding. Marty is a winemaker and the wedding was at a beautiful vineyard, with some amazing wine to drink all night long. I may have had a wee too much of the red stuff, but it was hard to resist when it was free and oh, so good.

It was a beautiful wedding, with the ceremony outside, and the hills and vineyard in the background over a terrace. They had a massive picture frame hanging on the deck of the nearby cottage, with a digital camera (on a tripod) set up facing towards the frame. The idea was for all the guests to sit behind the frame, over the course of the day and have their photo taken.

Another exciting moment in the day: Bryce ate fish, and liked it. For those who don't understand about Bryce and fish-->This is huge.


Denise is due any day now and looking glorious in her 9th month. She looks absolutely normal except for a big basketball-looking lump that she tucks under her shirt. Not really, but you could believe it. We are awaiting the phone call...

Bryce and I got out to the Wings over Wairarapa airshow yesterday. I had never really seen an airshow, not that I remember anyway, and really enjoyed it. They had WWI and WWII planes having dogfights and doing aerobatics, helicopters with people abseiling out of them and picking up and dropping cars, then there were jets that flew just above our heads, and even a war re-enactment with tanks and infantry pretending to shoot each other on the ground while planes cruise super-low over our heads. I am not keen on war, in the least, but I understand more now what kind of fear this type of environment would have created for everyone who had any type of war going on around them. Not really, but kind of...

Today we had a public holiday for everyone in Wellington (as it was Wellington Anniversary Day). Every district in New Zealand gets their own long weekend. Nice, isn't it? We slept till ten then gardened all day, followed by some bike rides and a fantastic creamy blue cheese rigatoni combo that topped off the day. I can't really believe school starts again so soon. It will be hard to adjust back into the real world. For now, I chill.....and celebrate living in Wellington.