That time of year again...

Honeymoon - last blog day.

Went to Australia Zoo today, (Nige says 'Crickey!', *rolls eyes*) saw Crocs, Tigurrrs and Cassowary's etc (I gots to pat a baby croc).
Got sunburnt, look like the prawns I had in my dinner :-(
2moro its off to brissy and home on Thurs, we are looking forward to seeing our furbabies, but not getting back to reality.

Honeymoonn day 13

Lazy day, as was yesterday, all good, lovin Mooloolaba.

Honeymoon day 11

Icky weather, could be this way for a few days yet.
Went to Underwater World tho and saw all the cute and fearsome critters.

Honeymoon day 10?

Just Kidding, Nigey be fine. Mooloolaba is teh awesomes, please send more moneys so dont have to come home :-P
Went to place called Vibes for dinners, foods was awesome and not too spensive, drinks insane tho! $12 Oz for Heiny!?

Honeymoon day 9.

Went to WB Movieworld, Nige had an accident... A swift burial followed, but the engraver thought he was a baker... :-P

Honeymoon day 8.

Went to WhiteWater World 2day, weather was perfect.
For the evening we went to the Prince Albert bar at Jupiters for delicious dinner, free comedy and a giant cocktail!

Honeymoon day 7

As yesterday was full of travel and hangover (we got a little excited with the cricket) we felt no worthy info for an entry.
Today tho, was a pearler, we walked from Broadbeach to Surfers, visited Ripleys and ate at Hard Rock :-)

Honeymoon day 5

Last day in Sydney, we break all the rules.

Honeymoon day 5

Not much to say today but... Tallica!
Twas epic, specially One followed by Master of Puppets!
Teh set was awesome but Sydney locals are teh borezor.

Honeymoon day 4

Despite flu like symtoms, we had a big day today. Caught the ferry over to Luna Park (in the distance) then dinner at the sub-par Blackbird cafe.

Honeymoon day 3

Went for a swim first thing this morn, was lovely as we had teh pool all to ourselves.
We then spent the rest of day at paddys markets and china town, bought a knock off guess bag!
Finished the day at the Sky Sydney 360 restaurant (see view above) Dad if ur reading this, the prawns were delish :-P

Honeymoon Day 2

Beautiful day in Sydney. Walked to Hyde Park and spent the morning at the museum. We continued through the botanical gardens down to circular quay, the bridge and opera house. After a chocolate degutation platter at the Guilyan Cafe we made our way back to our accom just intime to miss the rain and thunder :-D

Honeymoon~day 1

Arrived in Sydney, one hour late, but safe and sound.
The diggs is sweet, this be the view.
Had delish dinner at Maloneys for only $22.90 Australian total!

Yes that would be another ring on my finger.

All marrie now with a month to plan our honeymoon. For some amazing pics go to www.visser.co.nz/hotrods

Camping out in the car.

7.4 Earthquake 30k away at 4.35am. Scariest thing.

Akl weekend part 2.

1950's pinup makeup on, waiting to board the flight home.

Akl - Girls Weekend.

Veiw from the sky tower compleate with rainbow.

Cake day!

Messy decorating day.

Another runners up trophy...

Im so clever.

Refusing to spend 3hundy american or more on a topper hat for the wedding I made my own :-D

My Grandma,

What big teeth u have.

Go Netherlands!

Thorne shows his support as Holland plays Japan.

Cuddling

Mums lap is good excuse...

Armageddon

James Kyson Lee - Ando from Heroes :-)

Lucky in Love, Rich in Friends

'Bout time for an update.

It sure has been an interesting start to the year. Not that we can call it the start of the year anymore... Almost the 25th of March, which means almost 6months to go till the big day... *nerves*

If you've been checking in on me you may have seen my short (very short, one sentence type) entries from my phone. Then, you will know that I crashed the car that I bought less than six months ago, in a rather unfortunate 'out of no where' incident.

My future Mother in Law was lovely and lent me her car for a month or so, and workmates gave me lifts on the days I didn't have the car, how lucky am I to have such caring people around me? Its hard to remember those people and the things they do for you when you are surrounded by your own head space of depression, worry and 'bad luck', even though its when you are in those moments that these people truly shine. My fiance had to keep reminding me that I don't have bad luck at all, and to look at all the wonderful people, things and love I had around me. He is of course correct and I am thankful for him and those people/things :D

The good news is that the finance/insurance is finally sorted and I now have a new car. Its older and an automatic (ewwwww) but I think that it is possibly a cooler car. Dark blue '94 Honda Ascot, its quite the fancy, in '94 it was possibly one of the fanciest cars on the market.... Its been well looked after and has only done 97,000 ks!

Also in these early months I had an eyesight scare. I went into the AA to renew my drivers licence only to be sent to an optometrist as I failed the eyesight portion. There were 2 things that alarmed the optometrist, one being that after my last eye test (about 3 years ago) where it was discovered I had a mild astigmatism and nothing else, this time my eyes had drastically deteriorated and I am also quite short sighted, the cost of new glasses and the fact that I now have to wear them for driving aside, the rate of deterioration is alarming. On top of that the optometrist found a scar on the back of one of my eyes. Booked into a specialist I was left for 2 weeks worrying about glaucoma's and the like. All is fine tho, the scar or whatever it once was is now benign.

Due to the expensive year that has been so far and the fact that it will continue to be so with the wedding coming up we have had to make sacrifices. We have cancelled our WoW subscription for now, renewed our rental lease for a year (we cant afford the time or money involved in finding a new house) and I am about to turn down an offer to join and outdoor soccer league (for the same reasons above). But there is some good news on the money front, as of 2moro I will have paid off my GE account :)

Other bright news for the near future; this weekend the geek convention Armageddon is in town, the fiance and I are taking his StarWars mad 7 yr old nephew for the first time, so it should be fun :) We will possibly buy him his first comic book.... :D I do love converting people to the dark side... Easter weekend is coming, Fiance and I are staying a night in the always relaxing Hanmer Springs.

Also, the indoor soccer team is on the up again, we thumped a team last week 16-1, makes a hell of a difference when we have our striker girl on board.

Wedding updates.... Going well and to plan time wise

- Have finalised maids and men.

- The theme of Black and White Gothic Victorian is coming together well in our heads.

- Venue, Caterer, Photographer and Celebrant have been booked.

- My dress has been ordered and will be here June 11th

- Meeting with a dress/corset/hat maker on Thurs to discuss the bridesmaids outfits/my hat.

- Taking the boys to Wilkins on April 10th to try out suits.

- Starting to think about hens weekend activities.

That's it for now, want to know more? Just ask :P

BFC

Thats right, got my new car, its huge!

The good thing about being a receptionist.

Yes there is a huge tv on the wall, yes on it is the gold medal ice hockey match, yes CANADA WON!

Cricket?

A few years ago there is no possibility this could have ever happened. But here I am, at my first cricket game... 20/20 Australia vs New Zealand, and I actually enjoyed it...

Irony.

Yes that sticker says L2Drive...