Celebration in Australia, 29. March ...
Two weeks after our German celebration we had another wonderful night at the Restaurant "Tender Trap" in Melbourne! Here a first photo in the garden of Ally & David before the party:
Kirsten, Jared, Thomas, Cynthia, Moira (Cynthia's mum), Natasha
First, we had a couple of glasses of champagne at the restaurant while welcoming all our Australian friends ... ... here you can see us at stage 3 of our wedding project ;-) ... at least we can wear off the clothes a little bit with all these events ...
And here those who shared the evening with us: first of all Cynthia's mum, here together with Jill ...
... Natasha and Jared, Cynthia's pride and joy (50% of the anklebiter department of the new family) ..
... Kirsten and Jared (pride and joy to each other) ...
... Cynthia with Glynis, sisters in arms ...
... Cynthia's sister Glynis with her daughter Ingrid ...
... Jenny with Sandra, Andrew and David (Cynthia's nephews) ...
... Ally and David, who provided us with such a nice home while we were in Melbourne ...
... Caroline and David, very good old friends ...
... Ivana and Alicia, the Argentine department ...
... here Ivana with her better-half Alec ...
... Dianne and ...
... Alberto (Cynthia's so called big brother) ...
... Jill and Trevor (whenever you run out of water, they let you have a shower ;-) ...
... Sally and Vince ... Sally helped Cynthia throughout her five-year divorce struggle (thank you again!) ...
... and here Cynthia's ex-colleagues ... starting with Belinda and Aaron ...
... Anna and Ash ...
... Betty and Alex ...
... Heather and Keith ...
... Tristen (with Caroline) ...
... Nancy and Tony ...
... and the guests had to suffer through a speech ... but it was short ... to quote "it is difficult to import something into Australia, but I could export the most wonderful woman to Germany!"
Chris and his team from Tender Trap again managed to serve us a wonderful meal as well as making us feel so welcomed ... here's the food menu
As in Germany, it was a big grape-juice evening ... so 9 bottles of champagne, 5 bottles of white and 11 of red wine evaporated ... so the fun increased as the evening progressed ... ... here Alberto with the kids ...
... Ally and Cynthia deeply involved in discussions ...
.... and the effect when interrupted!!! ...
... and here's Jill (... always prepared to give someone the legs up!!!) ....
Our invitation card:btw.: this page has been programmed on the flight from Melbourne to Singapore, on the way to our honeymoon ...