Wedding

Some of might have gathered from my last post that we were recently at the wedding of a friend, in fact its the reason we actually came on holiday. Why, well to start with its at the other end of the country, quite literally, so popping down for the day certianly wasnt an option, but i'll talk about that some other time, what i want to talk about is the wedding, or more speciffically what the wedding was for my wife and I.

Apart from being an obvious reminder of our own wedding, it was probably the first time we had really been to anything of such nature without the children in tow! We popped in to town for a few last minute bits before the wedding, which turned in to the wife getting her hair and make-up down, something she hasnt done in years. This did mean that we were slightly rushed getting ready at the holiday home, by rushed i mean she got back half an hour before we were supposed to be there, luckly with having had hair and make-up done and the venue being about a 2 minute walk up the road, it wasnt actually that much of an issue! The wedding itself was lovely, quite a small affair, with a fair few uniforms around (he's in the army) and the reception was great fun, and even involved a boat ride around the harbour, well, it was a lot quicker than the hour plus drive around the river it would have been otherwise.

The main thing for us was that this was the first time we had left the kids with my parents and been out, just the two of us. We've done a couple of swift half's down the local pub before, but we've usually put the kids to bed before we've headed out. This time we left them about 10am and didn't see them again until we got home around 1am. We were a little nervous as the last time we tried this with my parents, the little man was about 9 months and it didn't go well. This time however, it went really well. They went to the aquarium and then got ice cream and they both went to bed without much fuss, although I think there were lots of stories involved!

Our night out was also a success, although it was strange. Were so use to the bairns being around that it feels weird without them, I kept expecting one of them to come charging over at any moment, or have to go and prize them off the sweets in the corner! Even with out the kids I still didn't drink much, in my younger days I'd have got wasted, as shown by my best mate who is still a bachelor and got wasted! Its not that I couldn't but I just didn't, I defiantly can't drink like I use to, both in amount and speed but I just don't want to. The wife has never been a big drinker, so I dont think it makes much difference to her.

It was nice to be out together though, something I do miss, just the two of us being able to mess around and act like a couple of silly teenagers without having to watch the kids. It was a well deserved night out and one we plan to repeat, especially as we know the bairns will be fine without us.

Well, I think I've waffled enough and I'm not really sure I've actually made a point, at least not a sensible logical one anyway. Oh well, never mind, I'm sure someone out there will get what I'm trying to say!