We’re nearly there, house virtually let, various assets almost sold, house mostly vacated, gear & gadgets mostly purchased. Our flight to Rio is only a fortnight away!
So, in further preparation we thought we’d take a visit to The Living Rainforest, an eco-greenhouse in Hampstead Norreys, just off Junction 13 on the M4. Yes… in the UK. Vastly smaller than the real thing, it was interesting to see some of the animals and plants in their non-native environment for a bit of comparison. A great visit, its £8.75 each for adults & £6.75 for children (family ticket available) for an annual pass. I can’t believe we’ve lived in Reading for four years and only recently found that this place existed!
This weekend we had our leaving do, a hilariously emotional affair that tied in nicely with Steve’s birthday. Nestling in between bouts of rain and gusts of wind, the weather for the actual bbq itself was beautiful, and once everybody had their beer jackets on it was pretty warm in the evening too!
Already looking forward to Musical Chairs for our return do (must retain my title) and I also think we have an entrant for Britain’s Got Talent in the contortionist category! We’d like to give a special mention to Kerry & Graham for joint-hosting the event and supplying many tables and chairs, Ryan for a stirling job on the bbq and keeping everyone fed, Rich for merrily rallying around Wiltshire to pick up my camera lens, and Michael Michael for drawing an awesome Octopus on our birthday map.
Thanks to everybody once again for the cards etc – it was a cracking way to depart, with many emotional goodbyes. Cheers… see you soon!
Here are the pics of our glorious honeymoon – on the continent of Africa which is the somewhere we won’t be getting to revisit on our trip round the world. Which is a great shame, as its an amazing place with wonderful diversity and immensely friendly people. Plus, wierdly, some of the best steak we’ve ever eaten which we didn’t see coming!
Putting this up now, four months later, reminds me we’re going to all the effort of this website… I’m starting to forget parts already! Ten years from now it’ll just be a fond blur. As long as we’ve written it down here, it’ll be something we can look back on and tell our kids about. Of course they’ll be disappointed it isn’t in 3D smell-o-vision, but they can’t have everything. We’ll be putting our thoughts on Gambia in a different post, but enjoy the photos below.
Finally! A selection of the over two thousand photos of our wedding we’ve been sent, including from the official photographer, available in one easy to digest album. If you want the “director’s cut”, then see the full 350+ photos here. There’s even talk of the thank you cards going out soon…
For those that are interested, we’re also going to let you know who the various people we worked with to help us put things together, so if you need any help with your own wedding (catering, tailors, photographers etc) then these will all come highly recommended. Continue reading Gallery: Wedding Highlights…
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