The day had come and we left Warburton at 5.00am Sat morning for the 6 hr drive to Yulara. We arrived at 1.15pm and bumped into John and Julie, Symon and Kirsty at Emu Walk Apartments, everyone's accommodation for the big event.
Penny and I went to book in when all of a sudden the power went out at reception. Some contractor had dug a hole and cut into a main power cable. This cut power to all the one bedroom units we were all staying in. No problem it should come on soon so the reception staff offered Penny and I some drink vouchers so we could go to the bar and wait for the power to come on. We explained that we were the party getting married and advised I would need more drink vouchers for our friends. So with a handful of drink vouchers we all headed to the bar. My family also joined us at the bar.
After a few, quite a lot, of drinks I headed to the reception to find out the status of the power issue and was advised that the power may be out all night. I was told they are in the process of moving us to another area in the resort and would get back to me once it was sorted. Naturally this meant I had to ask for more drink vouchers for the wedding guests.
Time was moving on and I headed ( staggered) to the reception to find out what was happening and they advised we would all be moved to the 2 bedroom apartments at Emu Walk with no extra charge as we had only booked 1 bedroom apartments. The Porter grabbed our bags and moved all of us to the new apartments.
Sunday dawned and Penny and I with Symon and Kirsty were taken by our wedding co ordinator to the lookout where the wedding would take place. More wedding guests arrived and the bar was calling so we all headed down. This evening we were all heading to the Sounds of Silence Dinner. After gathering at reception it was only a short bus trip to the dinner. We had a short walk up a small dune to a timber deck where we enjoyed wine and beer with canapés, overlooking the Rock.
The wedding guests.
Penny and I
Mark, Kerry and Olivia.
Symon and Kirsty, our great photographers
After the canapés we walked down a short track to our dining area
Geoff and Kay
My family. Parents at the bottom of the screen who celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary that night. (Penny and I arranged a cake for them) On the right my son Jack, daughter Jaime-Lea, my sister and her partner and my Aunty and uncle.
The meal was fantastic and a lot of it. We also had a talk about the stars from an Astronomer who had a great laser pointing out the stars constellations. We all headed back by bus to our accommodation after this as it was around 10.30pm with the wedding starting the next morning at 5.30am. One more night of being single.
To be continued.
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