Sleeeeepy

OK, it's very late on Wednesday night, the insanity commences for real tomorrow, but I know you're all dying to see what we were up to the last few days, so here you go. Unfortunately for you all, we mostly just ate, shopped and Jason and I got really tired and stressed. Yesterday we hiked all the way out to Prahran Market to go to Donnellys to get plastic containers and paper bags, only to find they were shut till the 12th, which is a bit late. So it was a bit of a damp squib, the day in the end. But we got to go to my parents' place and eat some top-notch food! Here is a picture of Jason appreciating Aunty Sally's outstanding chicken curry...

And here is a photo of all of us about to dig in!


Here are some delicious photos of food! Aunty Sally outdid herself in delicious vittles - chicken curry, aubergines, the most divine egged prawns. My mother contributed with a fine steamed fish and some succulent gai lan, and a soup.











Here is my mother, master barista...


Here we are looking tired.


Here is Hamish being pampered by Francesca and for once, ignoring Jason completely.

Finally, today we... picked up the chocolates at Cacao in St Kilda, had a terrible 'roast beef' sandwich on Acland Street (better described as a 'mustard and chopped pickle' sandwich, albeit a pretty good mustard and chopped pickle sandwich, if that's what butters your toast), drove to Templestowe to pick up our deli goods at the lovely people at the Pines Deli, bought things for dinner, bought stuff for my cousin's delicious olive tapenade, printed out wedding programs, did the menu draft, got money for the ang pow at the tea ceremony, bought all the water and juice for the wedding, did the basket tags, boxed all the chocolates (etc. etc. etc. - it goes on).

The best bit of the day was when Lyn and Idris (in the Welsh sense, as opposed to the Islamic sense) came over for dinner bearing the wedding cake that Lyn had many moons ago promised my mother she would make ("sure I'll make your daughter's wedding cake" she rashly said, when I was 7) and it is STUNNING. Photos will follow later, but it is in a box covered in cling film at the moment, and not at its best for photography. In the meantime, here is a photo of all of us at dinner, following Francesca's beautiful caprifiore and veal.