alana goes away

Wow. How the heck time flies. I'm curently on the last 3 hours of my flight home, over Moscow somewhere according to my little journey tracker. Tula to be more precise. I forget where I left off last time, but it's been such an awesome and intense week that I wouldnt know where to begin anyway. It's been so so fun being with Emma again, and oddly at times almost like being 16 again haha, you know what I'm talking about ladybird, if you read this. I'll leave out a page or 70 of random things and start off with the day before the wedding. Up n at'em bright n early, to pack up all emmas collected jars, vases, lollies, the flowers, the cake, everything, and take it out to Brickenden to set up the barn for the reception. It takes a stressfull while but when we finish it looks so, so beautiful and vintagey-rustic, just how she wanted it. It was so good, and I didn't have my camera as I was being a super handy helpe...

So I'll eat my words about being too busy as today I find myself with alot of time. Here's a few of the Hens night... No Alana Specials, no Aunty Denises'. Top forms all round...

I'm really quite behind on where I was planning to be by now with the updatings and photos, but I find I've got a tons to do and just don't have the time really. Hence the lack of photos in that last post, and probably this one... Melbourne was awesome, was so good to catch up with peeps I haven't seen in so long. In true holiday fashion, on more than one occasion I stuffed myself silly with Tui and Alisha, and also made Tui watch Attack the Block with me hah hah harrrr. I got to catch up with Kate too! And her bub! So cute! And I'm glad her lil bub did seem to like me, we decided she knew me and Alisha were nannies and therefore trusty enough to let us hold her and do funny smoochy things. Then it was time to go to Launceston for the next big adventure...I'm an hour early, hungover, planes delayed an hour, could have been sleeping...oh well. EMMA! HEY! We are heading straight to tthe hens night from the airport so I'm getting changed in the car, hilario...

Sooooo where did I leave off...oh, the awesomeness of me getting to Melbourne, right. So Abbey is dragged from sleep again to graciously take me to the train station, where I'm trying to book the train ticket with my bank card form London. Decline, call your bank. Decline, call your bank. RAR. I get the guy to try 50 different combinations of things, nothing works. So I'm scrambling together my small amount of coins, but I've nowhere near the $29 it was going to cost...the guy suggests I just get the $12 ticket to a few stops away, and sort out the rest when I get there. Ok, sure. I get to the other end and turns out its just a lady taking tickets not a machine, and she obviously hates her job as she doesn't look at one. There's my dishonest piece oh Karma that will bite me in the arse one day. I don't sort it out. But then it's time to buy my bag into checked luggage. $80. $80! $80!! You have to be shitting me Jetstar. Nope.  But then, cards not working, I...

these two...special Claire aye, what is she like... Yay lets go walking through here all the time...dodging rocks... woohoo! Bush turkey! HEY! Long time no post! Australia here I am. After a long long time flying and waiting at the airports, some freakin tasty Lamb pot roast somewhere over the middle east, 6 movies, a million albums, wines, sleeping with my mouth open, hilarious flight attendants that make jokes over the intercom, a stop off in Bangkok, flying over wildfire at night time, being delayed in Sydney due to the bad weather Melbourne had been having, and finally arriving in Brisbane, Claire is waiting for me by the bag drop. FREAKIN HI!!! So much excitement inside me at that finally I don't have to travel for a few days and it's time to get a beer with Claire. We head to Claires sisters house and even though I'm sure I smell and look like I've been awake for 4 years, I still manage to get my manners out and not fall asleep ...

Emmas favourite place in the world. This thing looks more evil if the photo is upside down. Right so here is another film, I've realised that I lost a film that had been through my camera (BUMMER) so thats a big shame. It was of Thailand etc, very annoying. But what can  ya do. These are all in Vietnam, which, if you wanna, you can read about >HERE< . Very fun times. This week has been kinda mad, getting well excited about my impending trip to AUSTRALIA WOOO YEAH! It's a shame I'll be so close to home and not get to see you fam, but its going to be very exciting. I'm getting my first taste of being a wedding photographer on the 1st, and YAAAAAY I get to see Clarence and JM in Brisbane, then Abbey down a bit more, then to Melbourne for some Alisha and Tui and Marie catch up time, then down to Launceston to see Emma, and finally meet her boyf Kevin. Gosh almighty holy-doody, so many people I've not seen in FAR too long. Come oooooooon weekend! An...