Busy, Busy, Busy

Geesh, I'm not even sure where to start... I think I mentioned last time that we had some relatives out from the UK, they were here for a wedding, well, specifically two of them were here to be married and then 3 other relatives came to witness the event. The visitors started arriving last Friday night with Pam, then on Tuesday some other distant cousins of Dad's arrived (Gillian & Francis - actually only Gillian is related, Francis is her partner) and then on Wednesday the Bride and Groom arrived (Anne & Brian) and on Thursday night we all had a big family dinner at Mum & Dad's including all of us and Alan and Lorelle (Dad's brother & Partner). The Wedding was on Friday night, there were only eleven of us at the ceremony and the photographer and the celebrant, Cec and Joorj didn't arrive in time as they were stuck in traffic in Bris and Cec couldn't get off work any earlier. We were all there for the reception though which was an excellent meal for the thirteen of us.


Yesterday (Saturday) we had the first of our 'next round' of open houses, although we did have two groups through on Wednesday, one of those groups needs to buy something quickly and wants to buy in our area, we just have to see what they thought in follow up. It would be GREAT to get a quick sale! We had seven groups through yesterday, two of which are also very keen apparently.

Yesterday we also had another family meal gathering, lunch at Alan and Lorelle's, it was the last time we'd all be together, although Mum and Dad couldn't be there, but that's another story! This morning Anne & Brian went on their honeymoon to Ayers Rock and Lizzard Island, today Gillian and Francis fly out, back to Canberra for a week before back to the UK and tomorrow Pam leaves - then I'm sure we'll all have empty nest syndome!

It's been great having all the family here and makes me all the more determined to get over to the UK sooner rather than later.

Well I'd better sign off, Hayden should be awake soon and then I'm taking him and Pam out to Australia Zoo - oh, I nearly forgot - I was fortunate enough to get two highly coveted tickets to his memorial service at the zoo on Wednesday - I'll take pix (if appropraite) and post after that.