A wee wedding
Yvonne Fairly & Svein Mathisen
request the honour of
Dan & Sonia
presence at their marriage
on Thursday, the 10th of May
at 2 o’clock, Balbirnie House
Balbirnie Park, Markinch Village
Fife, Scotland
Oooh Dan…our presence has been requested! Oh shit…what are we going to wear?
Last week we flew over to Scotland for Svein and Yvonne’s wedding. It was the first wedding we’d been to together (I think the last wedding I went to when I was 10). So it was really exciting to be invited to Svein and Yvonne’s in Scotland. A scottish wedding! There are going to be kilts!
So we boarded a plane on Tuesday morning and landed an hour or 2 later in Edinburgh. John met us at the airport and we hired a car…woohoo we get to drive again…and headed back to John’s place. It was the first time we’d met his girlfriend, Tia, and we also got to meet her cute kid, Louis. John didn’t know Svein and Yvonne so it was just a lucky chance that the wedding happened to be nearby and we got to see them too.
The next day we drove to Glenrothes and stumbled upon the Travelodge we were staying at. That night there was a pre-wedding dinner at Balbirnie House which was a lot of fun. We got to meet some of their relatives and friends and catch up with people we hadn’t seen in a while from Sydney. The wedding day was so much better than I had expected. Mostly due to the great family and friends they both have…they made it so much fun. Lots of kilt action and dancing…and eating and drinking! It was a fantastic day as you can see in the photo update…
The next couple of days we veged out with John and Tia again before making our way home. Tired but happy. We’d had such a good week.
Did I mention we enjoyed ourselves? 
The past week in Norway the warm spring weather has cooled down a notch. But the sun did come out on Thursday which was the Norwegian National Day. We went into work for a buffet of good food and wine before heading into town to check out all the people dressed in their traditional costumes. We could’ve stayed at home but knowing it was our last national day we were glad we made the effort to check it out one last time.
Speaking of which…this weekend we booked our return trip home! I’d been researching flights from London to Sydney with a stopover in Bangkok for a few weeks. Then yesterday when I went to book it I noticed the price had jumped up over $1000! For the next hour Dan and I typed in all sorts of other options on how to get home and discovered that by pushing the dates forward 2 days we were back to the original prices. Woohoo! So the plan to head home now is…19th July fly to Edinburgh for John’s 30th birthday. 25th or 26th get a train to London to catch a plane on the 26th to Bangkok. Stay 5 nights in Bangkok then catch a plane home. We were really excited with this until we read about the bombings in Bangkok last New Year’s Eve…uh oh! But it’s all booked now so we’re going to look forward to it anyway. We did leave for London a week after the bombings in 2005. And apparently the chance of a car accident is much much higher…
So ANYWAY, that’s our plan. And that’s the latest update. Now for the fun part. I’ve just finished adding the wedding photos so you can all go get a coffee and settle back down to go thru them…
Update 27 - A wee wedding:
We’re really looking forward to being back in Australia soon!
Big hugs!
Sonia & Dan xoxo