On Thursday 25th, we were up in QLD over the Australia day break due to the then imminent wedding Becci and Dan.
We arrived late on Thursday night, and had dinner with some very lovely ladies.

Early Friday morning, we departed the much loved Brisvegas for Dalby. The day was a blur of meet and greet, preparation and organisation, until about 4.30pm. At this point one of the nastiest storms I've evern seen ripped through the Darling Downs... and we were without power all night.

Luckily the next morning, Saturday, the power was restored, and wedding preparations continued... The following is how my day, as bridesmaid #3 ran :

5am: Wake up
7.30am: Up and Shower
8am: Breakfast
8.30 am: To the hairdressers 11.30am: finish the @ the hairdressers, go to hotel room ready for Makeup and Dressing..
12.30pm: Makeup
1.30pm Lunch.
2.30pm Prep the flower girls and Dress the bride
3pm: Get dressed myself
3.45pm: Drive to the church
4.00pm: Ceremony
4.45pm: Photos outside church
5pm: Bridal Party Photos
6pm: Reception......
10pm: Home with Flower girl and sleep.

I believe that the mother and brother of the bride had MUCH more hectic days.
Many photos were taken, and can be viewed by following the links on www.mongdidi.com

Sunday was equally as hectic, due to the fact that the mother of the bride invited everyone at the reception back to there house to have breakfast.... I must say it went off without a hitch and I'm sure everyone involved appreciated the giant effort.
We eventually left Dalby at about 1pm.

Some rest was had sunday afternoon, and then we were up and at them on Monday....
Out to the airport with a dog, in Monday morning peak traffic.... almost didn't make the flight.

Got to Canberra by 11.30... and and I was work by 1. Mark stayed home for the rest of the day. He installed his new Hardrive( purchased specifically for the purposes of creating a wedding video extrordinaire) and got to capturing the footage.

Tuesday was made more interesting by picking up Russell Loi( a friend from primary school and high school) from the airport, and installing him in our spare room.

Wednesday was made fun by having Malloy( a friend of Ours from Work at the Library) come down from Brisbane to stay.

Thursday night I went to a farewell party of Hang(a friend from primary school and Uni that has been down in Canberra, but is headed for the UK.)

Friday night was taken up with a marathon game of RISK(a board game about Global domination).

Saturday was speckled with little chores, picking up wedding photo prints and then helping Loi move to his new address. A canoeing trip was also made on Saturday, followed by a bbq and the arrival of Shaun and Karen on their trip around Australia. They came with caravan in tow, and it was approximately 1 hour of backing up, then going forward, straighten up, back up and then going forward to inch their caravan down our driveway.

Sunday started nice and slowly... thank god... then we went to the National Gallery with our 2 sets of house guests and we saw the Egytian artifact exhibit currently visiting in Canberra from the Louvre. Sunday afternoon was filled with another canoe ride. (We have discovered that Canberra seems to have big winds come through late every afternoon, due to the varying levels of choppi-ness at the two different canoeing trips)

On Monday it was officially Mark's last day at work with 4D, but he's feeling "sick" so he's at home entertaining our house guests. I worked.... and fun it is! No really I shouldn't complain... it was 38degrees on Monday, and at least work has airconditioning!

Tuesday, we farewelled Shaun and Karen before heading to work. Me to mine, and Mark to his new work place. As a precaution, he wore long sleeve shirt, tie and suit pants, but hoped that they were like all other IT sections( Tshirt and Pants). No. They wear Long Sleeve shirt and Ties.....! So there was some made scrounging for all of his old Long Sleeve Shirt and various Non-cartoon Print Ties.... believe me its difficult to find ones that fit and look good.
I've asked dad to buy some more for him when he heads to China( which he's doing on the 18th)
Tuesday night Mark played soccer, they didn't win.... maybe next week, it would be a good way to finish the season.

Yesterday was just another day, except I started a project with regards to photoshop. After an initial huffyness with the product, I've decided its not THAT bad to use..... I'm just not liking the product of my work though, so I will start again tonight. I was up till 1am last night working on it.


Hopefully we will have a nice quiet weekend, then next weekend (the 17th and 18th of Feb), which is chinese new year, We will be going to Sydney to celebrat the year of the PIGGY!
(on this topic, you need to read this:http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=62364)

Anyways, thats enough rambling from me....