Fiddling with photos

So its been a while since my last blog (ok apart from the fact that I've just added the German pre-wedding party photos and the Prague 30th birthday trip editions just before this blog). We have moved from Heidelberg to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse in the last 2 months, and honestly, its been kind of hard to write about anything in a positive light. I've mainly had my head down studying, gaining a little too much of agoraphobia & teutophobia and counting down the days till our departure to the Philippines for our honeymoon, and then onto Brisbane for our next move in life.

A saving grace has been a super fun wedding present from my wonderful bestest lady friends from Australia. We got a new fancy DSLR camera that I've always wanted to document all our new adventures together in married life. Below are pictures of mucking around with the camera at home (and I never said we were professionals!). Thanks again you fab friends!

Pre-wedding party for Neustadt crew

Before our wedding, we had a pre-wedding party for the Germans that my in-laws kindly threw for the hubby's friends, family and locals in the town to come by and celebrate. We had about 75 people show up and enjoy the evening. Below are some of the pics. Thanks to my family and two great friends for coming a LONG way to represent my side.

Wine festival and a christening

So when we moved back to Neustadt, there was a wine festival going on. We also had a christening for Hubbys nephew where he was the godfather. Some things blog worthy to note of the christening with pictures: 

- more professionally made cakes for 40 people at a christening party than a wedding of 200 people! (5 to be exact)

- I was the only person in the church not singing the hymns (they were in German!) and not crossing myself - because I'm not catholic - but I was sitting in the 1st row in front of the priest - slightly awkward... (pic of hubby and the baby/god-son)

- The after celebration was so infested with bugs, I couldn't drink my beer before they got into it - this was after 10 mins of leaving it alone...

Highlights of the wine festival:

- people dressed like they were at a rodeo or one really strange guy who was in shorts so high his man parts were dangling out (tried to get an inconspicuous shot below...)

- drinking out of huge glasses

- 70% of people were over 50, we were definitely the minority

 

 - and some ones of us...