Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Honeymoon

Had a lovely short cruise, Sailed from Sydney on P&O's Pacific Pearl
Which was our first time cruising and hopefully not our last! Left Sydney on a Thursday and cruised to Moreton Island (just off Brisbane) spent Saturday on the Island, which is a National Park. Welcomed onshore by lifeguards, Band playing, tropical feel, sunshine, and holiday mood all round.
Had a Quad bike ride... (definetly not my thing) Michael enjoyed this and was in his element.
Also had a go at Segways, and travelled on them along the beach to where a natural breakwater had been made using old ship wrecks to provide a sheltered harbouring point for smaller craft. 
The staff on board Pacific Pearl were wonderful and there was so much to do.  We attended Art Lectures, Health and Lifestyle Information Sessions.  Won a couple of small artworks.

 
we had won a rather large scene of a small township, which although it was lovely, was a piece which had been passed in at an art auction we attended that afternoon... it was ours and just had to be framed and shipped to us $550+ so we declined, as we do not have much wall space with our home being open plan, so we were offered these two smaller prints, and went to Big W on our return and framed them for around $25. 
The shows on board were fantastic, we spent an evening Running away with the Circus, watched Gymnast and Acrobats with an amazing Laser Light Show. Listened to the Blue Brothers, there were big screens outside with movies, you could just lay on loungers and relax.  We discovered the Lounge and reading room (I set a couple of bookcrossing books free there)  The Meals were fabulous, it was truly a wonderful and relaxing time.  Our Cabin Steward Rico was a delight, we were surprised to find a dog in our cabin on return from the Island trip.
 
Very creative our Rico, such a lovely person lives in the Phillipines and is actually an accountant, but the job with P&O is  better paying, so he does several months on contract and then returns to his family for a short while before accepting another contract. 
We arrived back in Sydney on the Monday and disembarked ship around 9am, took our cases to the airport and then did a bit of sightseeing around Sydney.  Went back to Circular Quay and had a look around The Opera House concourse, The Botanical Gardens.  Truly enjoyed our relaxing break. 

The Big Day....

Richmond is such a lovely little township, we had some photo's on The Village Green and down by the River.

The weather was kind to us 
and we had a lovely day, 

Married....

We set the date for the day after our two year Anniversary, 26th July 2014.
We did not have a Wedding and Honeymoon in our budget so we planned a small Wedding in the supper rooms behind our local Hall here in Richmond.
Michael made the invitations, we decorated the hall, and planned an afternoon wedding as this fitted our budget well.

We did the catering ourselves.. just a simple afternoon tea, decorated the tables with Gerbera's in small bottles with cream roses.
Michael's daughter in law Emanuela sang for us at our wedding, You are amazing by Bruno Mars and Shania Twains From this Moment as we left the hall. Daughter Liz did a reading from Corinthians on love.  My daughter Belinda was my bridesmaid, Michaels son Matthew was groomsman.
 

Engaged.....

Well it has been a while since I have blogged so here goes, a quick catch up.....
February 13th 2014, my birthday, The BIG 60!  Arrgghh! where does the time go?
Partner brought me my presents while I was still in bed, opened up card and goodies, feeling well and truly pampered, when he says, "Here you go, you had better have your Valentines card a day early" I did not protest too hard....lol, who doesn't like opening pressies.... feeling a bit like a kid here... A lovely card with Hearts on the front of it,  to My Darling Glenys.... aw sweet, open it up and it says "Marry Me" with the pic of a ring in a box, well, I have never said "YES" so quick in my life.