Wedding!

The Council House registry room

Belated photographs from my eldest sons wedding last month!  Two days after I finished work, it was trip to Cardiff, overnight stopover there for me, met Franco and then we were up to Nottingham.... aforementioned I think!

Signing of the registration papers

 Some of these photographs are thanks to family, my phone camera didn't do a great job indoors in the registry office or the lunch to follow!  Didn't have my 'real' camera...

My boys...

The Council House in Nottingham is a beautiful place for a wedding, the room was panelled, gorgeous setting, and just as the official read out the bit about "... if there is anyone who thinks this marriage..."  a street drummer started to beat out something!  And the man said he was sorry, he couldn't understand the drums!!

... and Wedding lunch

The lunch was held in a pub in town, on the third floor, in a wonderful room with the longest table, and low ceiling!  There were strange items around the room too!  A sleigh, sewing machine, bits and pieces of all sorts! Great room, great food... and well done to the staff who had to carry full plates and drinks up those flights of stairs, then carry huge piles of empty plates back down again, job well done folks!!

Signing the register

 These two photos above are mine, from indoors, both a bit to misty!! Then the one below... perfect!  Outside and no problems! Never mind!!

Bride and Cassie

Sons, on the right groom in waiting...

Younger son opening door for Bride

Wonderful day!  Wedding was at 2:30pm and then up to the restaurant by way of a drink in a Church... converted to pub!  We sat outside and then moved onto the restaurant... I think it was about 7pm when we came out... We popped back to the hotel, got changed and met up again quite soon afterwards with the Brides family... We went into a small bar, and drank very strong beer!!  Well I did, I only had a small glass, they didn't do pints and I couldn't have handled one!  I didn't get drunk, just very tired, and as soon as we were back in the hotel room I thought I would shut my eyes for five minutes, I was out like a light until the morning!  Knockout beer!!! Very high alcohol content!

So lovely to be with everyone, both my boys together, hadn't seen them together for four years... Too long a time...

TTFN
Marian

Malaga or bust!

Some randomness today... Like I never usually am!!!  Above a plant, one of many in Mijas Pueblo gardens... The years and years and even more years I have seen this flowering plant, and never once seen fruit on it! The fruit looks like blackberries... I didn't try it, although we did observe a woman eating one...

Yesterday we went to Malaga for the day, and the whole day it turned out to be, including the nearly €17.00 car park cost!!!  We went because a Star Wars exhibition was a the port, followed in the afternoon by the legion in the main plaza... We didn't get to see the finale, we should have known better that they wouldn't be on time I guess... But because we were later than we could have been we bumped into friends and had coffees, so that was nice...

We saw lots of storm troopers, and lots of characters from the movies, apart from my favorite... no Chewbacca... sadly....  We saw a bride and groom, they had photos taken with every one!!  They were there when we were in the morning, and just walking about four hours when we came back into the port for ice cream... they must have been shattered!!!

There were ships in the port to see, I bundled up those above... well, so it seems, at the back a big huge ship from Italy the Splendida.. then a smaller liner before it... the older sailing boat in the foreground... there should be a fast large yacht in there too if you look closely!

I think I have some pictures of a navy boat somewhere?? And below is a ferry!

The day was warm enough but very overcast, we were lucky really, 20% chance of rain... We went on the wheel too, it seems so big from afar, but up close compared with the London Eye, it was small!  It was also movable!!  Unlike the London Eye this one is temporary! The pods were small, about six or seven foot by about five I guess, a bench either side to sit and a little leg room in between, you could rest your feet on the bench quite easily...

But it was good fun, and we were on our own in the pod, they spaced people out nicely, I am guessing when its busy that's a different matter!  Not too bad views considering the misty skies...

More pics from here tomorrow, or soon....

Big mural of a girl on this building...

After about six twirls on the wheel, which was also great... we went for lunch at Roy's!!  A great little port side café, very well priced and great food!

We had ice cream later too... while we were doing the tourist thing!

Waiting for the parade (that we missed), I started to get a bit chilly, and started spending too much time in the shops!  They're winter collections of warm fluffy knits became more and more appealing the cooler I got!!!

TTFN
Marian