Day 2 Noosa

Day 2 (Saturday) of last weekend's Noosa trip was centred around the wedding.

It was a late start following the previous evening's dancing and indulgence. I rose at 8am, the first to do so, joined gradually by the other five by 10am. In the meantime I had crossed the road to purchase some items for breakfast and a range of newspapers to cater for various interests. Breakfast was leisurely.

Ll, Fd, Mt and I then chose retail therapy for our Saturday midday entertainment. We drove across to the Noosa Civic shopping centre where we spent a couple of hours, a few dollars and partook of a coffee break. Ml and Sy chose to venture down to Hastings Street for their retail and people watching therapy instead.

We reconvened at the apartment around 2pm where the wedding guests (everyone other than Mt and myself) dressed for the wedding which was timed for 3.45pm.

The wedding location was the fancily named Maison La Plage Grove. This is a small grassed oval area adjacent to the beach which evidently is used for such gatherings. The area can be booked by the hour, that being the maximum allowable rental period. Another wedding was booked for the same location at 1pm.

Everyone adjourned to the 'grove' for the wedding, myself included. I watched proceedings from the adjoining boardwalk along with the other uninvited guests and casual passers by. The ceremony was very simple and blessed by a gorgeous sunny afternoon, a lucky break in what otherwise was a cool and grey period of weather.

I dreamily took in the view of the groom and his groomsmen and as many of the good looking male guests that I could ogle without being arrested for stalking.

(I took the photo above at the end of the ceremony. It is the view to the beach from the boardwalk taken adjacent to the grove.)

Following the ceremony our group and a few other friends returned to our apartment for drinks preparatory to the reception which was to be held at the restaurant across from where we were staying.

This was the end of Mt's and my 'participation' in the wedding. We left for dinner at a local Italian seafood restaurant before taking in a movie (The Savages).

We returned around 10pm and awaited the return of our friends from the reception, which they did around 11.30pm. We then intended to watch the time trial of the Tour de France on television to see whether the Aussie cyclist, Cadell Evans, could take the lead (he didn't) but were all too tired to stay up long enough for the end of the event which was to be around 2.30am Australian Eastern time.

We were all in bed by 1am.