Todd's Wedding

Todd and Tenelle hired their wedding venue for 3 nights and it was great to be invited to stay in the home and share the special occasion. 'Poorinda' is a rural property situated at Mt Nathan in the  Gold Coast Hinterland and has the most beautiful views.  Todd and Tenelle had planned and prepared their day and it was wonderful.  Tenelle had collected and made quite a few items which added to the rustic theme and made their day more personal.  The vibe was fantastic and the wedding ceremony was held in the garden, drinks and nibbles were on the back balcony overlooking the hills and the reception was outdoors by the stables.  A couple of showers were a nuisance however once everyone was seated the rain ceased and the evening was most enjoyable - beautiful smoked meat with salads, great beer and wines, wonderful blues band playing and to warm things up the official toasts were made with Fireball!!!  Helen and I climbed into bed at 2am - must admit I was very sluggish the next day!  Todd and Tenelle had an absolute ball and everything turned out how they had planned.  Was great to have both Helen and my siblings and a large group of Todd's friends travel up from Adelaide for the occasion.

The ceremony was held in the gardens - Tenelle had done all flower arrangements

The happy couple

Helen and my siblings all together at the wedding - great to have everyone there.

Overnight at Beerwah

Always nice to stay at the Beerwah Recreational Grounds and our original couple of nights ended up to be 5!  With Helen still not fully recovered it was better to stay and rest before heading to the Gold Coast for our son's Wedding.  Had to change sites as their was an activity booked on the Sunday which required the whole concreted area.  No problems with our move as our next site was fine and nice and quiet so Helen could have plenty of recovery time.

Why a GT Ford at a gender party, you ask? 

On the Sunday I heard there was going to be a 'Gender Party' and upon further enquiries found out it was a Baby Shower Party.  However this is quite different to the old celebrations where the guests bring baby gifts and have afternoon tea and play games.  This one includes the 'boys' and it was great to watch.  The Ford GT HO had special powder on its tyres and then did burn outs which produced either blue or pink smoke - predicting the sex of the unborn child.  In this case they have predicted girls as the couple are having twins.

From Beerwah we drove to Mausland (Gold Coast Hinterland) where we set up in Wayne and Susan's home (Tenelle's Mum and Dad) awaiting the big Wedding Day.  Todd and Tenelle - particularly Tenelle - had planned and prepared their Wedding and was not a lot we needed to do prior to the day, however I needed a suit and shoes etc so shopping was a priority.  All our siblings from Adelaide travelled up for the big day and we had a quick catch up with them before the wedding.

It's going to be a girl

We had to move from our site which was on this concrete slab, site 4.

Just making sure they are both going to be girls.

OK we know it's going to be a girl, you can stop now!!

Well that was fun!!