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Murray and Showte’s Wedding

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April 1 saw us all gathering for Murray and Showte’s wedding at Albert River Winery at Mount Tamborine.

Albert River Wines vineyard and winery are set high on the hill, with panoramic views to Tamborine Mountain and the surrounding Hinterland.

Amongst this setting, you will find the historic colonial homestead, Tamborine House and the fully restored, beautiful iconic Queenslander, Auchenflower House.

Albert River Winery is also home to the original Kingaroy Lutheran Chapel, which is just perfect for traditional style Wedding Ceremonies. This is where Murray and Showte had their wedding ceremony.

I left my camera behind in the caravan in Perth, so tried to make do with our little canon. Unfortunately it died shortly after the ceremony so no reception photos until we see the photographers shots.

Murray and Showte are now honeymooning in Italy for two months. Lucky them !!! I loved the email we just got from them in Paris. See below……..

Hello,
Greetings from Paris.

We arrived here safely after a very long couple of days… quite sleepy. Woke up at 5am this morning due to jet lag and quickly found out that nothing opens in Paris until 9am. But none the less we off to explore Paris today and will possibly get to the Eiffel tower and champ de Ulysses and also the arc de triumph. Which is pretty exciting!

Hope all is well

Lots of love
Showte and Murray

Sent from a room in Paris

Trav, Murray and Guy before the wedding

Ballina, PERTH...18th Jan - 25th March 2012

Ballina……We are home after our second trip

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We arrived home today after flying the “red eye” flight from Perth last night. We left our caravan at Bianca and Joes’s place at Two Rocks about half an hour north of Bec and Steve’s home.

Nick (Breen), our very good friend, picked us up from the airport at Coolangatta, QLD. I am sure he has earned a carton of beer !!!!

It is good to be home, if only for 5 weeks. Mutley and Salem were pleased to see us. We have missed them so much. The garden was healthy, due to all the rain Ballina has been having. The sun has come out for us though. What rain guys????

Like always, our wonderful house sitter, Jen, has looked after our home as if it was her own. I guess it is sort of, considering by the end of our next trip she will have lived in the home for nearly eight months. !!!!!  Thanks again Jen.

We head off again for three months on the 30th April (only 5 weeks time). We will start from Perth and head north, then across to NT and Uluru, then into northern QLD before heading south home. We hope to be home by the end of July.

 

Bye for now, Ros and Mal

I really missed my kitchen. We both love cooking, but we do run out of room in the van. We will cook up a few fun meals while we are home.
All ready for a dinner party !!! I need to cook. !!!!!!
Mutley won't let Mal out of his sight. Lucky they are both obsessed with boats !!