We went up to the Hunter Valley with out bridal party last weekend to show them around the places for the ceremony, reception and accommodation.
We camped just out of Cessnock which was lots of fun, if a little cold. Also, the permanent resident coming over at 10:05pm on a Friday night and telling us 10pm is now quiet time was a bit rich. She's the one who chose to live there!
Having endured that, we spent the remainder of the next two days looking around at the
ceremony and
reception locations. We had a bit of a chat to the relevant people at each place but the main aim was to get more people than ourselves familiar with the layout. Hopefully they can chip in some ideas as how the proceedings would work best.
Needless to say, we ate heartily and sampled plenty of wines. The cars were full on the way up there, so going home with several more cases of wine shared between us was quite a challenge!
Completely unrelated, Max has gone to a new home and we have a new dog Chicka. She's a smaller sheppard cross and amazingly cute. Not as house-trained as we'd like, as we discovered about six this morning, and we think we'll rename her Bailey as we don't really like the name Chicka and she doesn't exactly respond to it right now anyway.