Love Is In The Air.....'Sniff'.. At Least I Think That's What That Is?

We have started a trend!

Our bridesmaid and best man have decided to get married next October. (I wish I could say that our wedding inspired love, that their eyes met across the aisle but no. Well, they may have done but it wasn't new, they've been together for a while and are now finally going for it! He's worn her down :) ) This means, dear readers, that you thought all the wedding chat was over ohhhhhhhh no!! Now you are getting it from the other side!! Actually, it should be quite interesting being involved in the big day but without the stress! Well, not as much of it anyway!

Also, I am hoping that as I was so nice to her about the bridesmaids outfits that she won't put me in a meringue, but she might... she's a bit crazy!! So far there has been a disney theme idea and a nursery rhyme theme suggested......

Wedding Photos - The Choosing

Well, this section of the photographs has taken us two sittings. Whittling down about 300 photos to 80!! Our top 10, 30 of our 2nd favourites and then 40 of our 3rd favourites. It sounds like a lot! We didn't do too bad actually. After several umm ... 'disagreements' about the method of choosing we settled on just going through and listing ALL the photos that we liked and then seeing what we ended up with. It worked out great!! Let's hear it for us!! We finished and counted up the complete list - 96! Not bad. We left that for the first sitting and did the 'rating' the following evening. That was harder, thinking you've got it worked out then finding one you really like and finding that the only space is in the 3rd favourites section! But we've managed it, so just have to send them off and then its a three week wait for our album to arrive!! Really looking forward to it, just have to decide which ones we want as our 'hang 'em on the wall' photos.

We were given a beautiful album by our bridesmaid and best man of the photos that they had taken on the day. They had got it printed out storybook style (with the photos actually printed on the page) with backgrounds and inserts and everything! It was wonderful, a great keepsake and handy too! I know a lot of people who say they get their 'official' album made up and then decide they don't want to risk spoiling it by showing it to anyone! So get others made up as 'showables', this album will be perfect for that!! The photos are excellent also, helps having a great photographer as your head bridesmaid!!

Honeymoon Photos

Okay I have added the honeymoon photos as an album, figured that would be a better way than just putting them all up on here. You can either watch that funky slideshow or you can click on it and visit the album itself!! The choice is yours my friends....

Bargain Day!!

A day of bargains today!! Let's her it for car boof sales and markets!! We took a trip too the car boot salein Stirling today and I would have to say that I am chuffed with out purchases!! I am a crazy eeyore fan!! And I mean BIG Eeyore fan so I was well pleased with my three stuffed eeyores which can be added to my collection after their date with the washing machine! (In fact they are tumbling right now!!) But my next favourite purchases was from a market stall and was a Big Cube World block, for only £4... new!!! Now if you don't know what cubeworld is let me enlighten you...

Cube World is as follows little cubes on the front of which is a screen. On this screen appears an animation of a little guy that lives in the cube. He just gets on with his life while you watch (yes, it is electronic voyeurism!). Each cube generally has its own theme, maybe he's an office worker, or has a dog or plays football. Now each cube is cute and fun to watch in its own right but the fun comes from when you stick them all together!! Now the little guys can go visit each other!! Stick as many of these cubes together as you want for piles of fun. Different cube men interact differently with each other. Example: the dog man and the football man - the football man can throw his ball and the dog goes and gets it, running between the two cubes. Or the string man, if you pile up about 5 cubes one on top of the other, he'll climb to the top of the stack, tie on his string and bungeeeeeeeee all the way to the bottom and back up. Apparently each cube has around 100 different animations, all dependant upon who's where. Anyway, these cubes are quite small but then they brought out big cubes, about the size of 4 little ones stuck together. These things were majorly expensive when new, see my Amazon snap shot, but I got it for £4 pretty chuffed!!!
Okay I am sad but simple things....

Next bargain, and a tip for any computer gamers out there. If you are looking to buy EA's new evolution game Spore then go to Woolies!! About £5 cheaper than anywhere else! Had to trapse around every shop in Stirling but we got the best deal!! Yes!! We rock!! ANd the game is pretty cool too! You get to design your own creature and help it evolve from microbe to space traveller...

Let's hear it for geeky me!!

The Honeymoon - Is Never Over!!

We are back, and have been for about four days now, from our honeymoon in the Maldives!! It was incredible!! It was like being in a living picture postcard! (I'll get the photos up ASAP but they are still in the camera, there are SO many!!!)

We managed to get into the 700's, which if you know Meeru island at all is no mean feat! Everyone wants them becaus eit is at the Adult Only end of the island, no children allowed in the resturants, accommodation etc. We arrived and were told that there was no space in the covetted 700's but that if we kept asking everyday they would move us if one became available. We were a bit disheartened but still chuffed to be here. Then we were called up to the desk to be given our room key and a map of the island etc and were told that there was one room available in the 700's and they wanted to give it to us!!! We had to keep quiet in the beginning as various people in the same situation as us were not being given this opportunity! We were stunned! Hurray!!

It couldn't have been better getting to the North end of the island! It was beautiful, great room, great resturant, great service!! We could go straight to the sea down some steps from the back of our room, so we quickly got out the snorkling gear and were away!! Within minutes a shark (approx. 5ft) swam past me! Amazing! We later discovered that it was a Black Tipped Reef Shark. There were so many fish of different sizes and colours, including the sharks and rays!!

We were there during Monsoon Season so we had our fair share of rain but I have never seen real life monsoon style rain so that was an experience in itself! Although a damp one.

We took a couple of trips, a Sunset Cruise and a Night Fishing Trip - both of these were included in the All Inclusive Package. I caught three big fish!! And a little one that got put back as it was only a baby. The Sunset Cruise was a bit strange in that we didn't cruise, just bobbed about and there wasn't a sunset until after we were heading back!

We also took a trip to the nearby local island to get a better idea of the culture and life in the Maldives. We also went to a picnic island for snorkeling and a BBQ, as well as a visit to another resort island - Eyriadu (think that's right). I am so glad we picked the island that we did!!

We also got ourselves a massage. There was a 15 minute one included in the AI package but we also booked a full hour 'His 'n' Hers' massage, which was great!! The spa was also over the water and attached to the same pontoon thing that our bungalow was on. We got another bottle of Champagne as a gift after the massage, which is no good to us as neither of us can stand the stuff!!!