Two Weddings and a Road Trip

Another whirlwind travel mad holiday home for two weddings. We got a great flight to Dunedin and I managed to get some time at home, both before and after the first wedding, Jacob and Jill Smythe at Glenfalloch.

After attempting to have the ceremony outside, and getting rained on, we moved in. The wedding party.



The food!



I went back home for a day and a half before meeting Barry to drive to Palmerston North. But first, a few photos of home, the new covered yards



The view looking up the hill from outside the yards. The weather pretty much sums up the summer, cloudy and cold, yet as you can see, no rain and horribly dry.



Kelley with Bevan's dogs, Dick and Moss



The front corner of the house from the garage, looking up through the roses



Lambs in the Front Paddock, Rock and Pillars in the background



The front gate and mailbox, minus all the poplars along the front that were ripped out over the winter



The back gate and cattleyards with Dad's horse Chester in the background



View from above, taken from helicopter back when the grass was green, in Autumn. This is the main house, Strathavon.



And the same, from further up showing the sheds and all the way up to the top of the hill and the Sister. Obviously taken before all the poplars were taken out.



Glyn -wye, where Bevan is living, looking towards Middlemarch.



We stayed the night in Kiakoura and in the morning, just up the road, we had a good view of quite a few seals on the rocks.



Our ferry coming in through the Sounds to Picton



The ferry route - you can just make out the thin dotted line



We had a great night out for Angus's Stag function, thankfully cameras were banned! It was then up to Palmy, but the trip was not without mishap given that it was the morning after the Stag do.

We were staying just across the road from where Pool B of the U19 cricket world cup was being played, so when we weren't busy, we just shot over the road for a few hours. It was a good spot for some cricket of our own the morning of the wedding too.

Pakistan vs West Indies, who actually met each other in the semi final, Pakistan qualified for the final



The chaps before the wedding



Kelley and I



The man himself, Angus the groom, visably excited...



Bride, Groom and bridal party in front of the church