My my Star, you're full of questions...
I think one of your relatives looks a little like Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter.
THat is actually difficult child 3, who really DOES look like Harry Potter. He turns heads wherever we go because of it. His current glasses are deliberately chosen to be a square frame because his last ones, being rounder, REALLY turned heads! But he IS cute!
No, the nephew who srtripped to his jocks and jumped in is older (about 30), blonde with square jaw (a lot like Brad Pitt but with an Elle McPherson grin). And BUILT! The sharks - no Great Whites come into the lake, they don't like it. But yes to Bull Sharks, Hammerheads too. Most likely would be Bronze Whalers. But I don't think he would have been in danger where we were - the water was too open there and the fishing was too good, a little too far away (about 100 metres). So no chance of a shark mistaking him for food. It turned out the water was only waist deep there too, I was surprised how shallow it was there. He would only have been in the water for a couple of minutes. He only jumped in when all other attempts to shift us, failed. I thought he was being a bit phobic, mentioning his fear that sharks might be around the way he did. It was only later I realsed that there ARE sharks in the area, they're a lot more active and hungry at the moment, and being so close to the mouth of the lake as well, pushed the risk up a bit. But maybe it's just all the recent attacks in previous months that has him spooked.
Shoes - not bad, are they? They're the ones I got after trying on an identical pair belonging to "Imelda", the mother of one of difficult child 3's drama classmates. They are surprisingly comfortable but still not suitable for walking around in, on grass. The problem with the jetty wasn't the wobble, it was the spaces between the timber boards, just wide enough to trap a heel... when I wear high heels I have to adjust my crutches for the extra height.
Imelda gave me another few pairs of fabulous shoes, I wore one of those pairs as my substitute shoes later on in the evening, before kicking off my shoes entirely.
The sexy Scottish knees - actually, the men's kilts come just below the knee although when they dance the kilts swirl up a bit and you can see a bit more. However, the kilt is too well-designed for them to fly up TOO far!
The dancers' kilts - they are made with about twice as much fabric as the dress kilts. The dancers are easy child's cousins from Perth, the older one barely out of her teens and already one of the most highly qualified Highland Dance teachers in Australia. The family heritage is Aussie/Scot, hence the involvement of the tartan.
As for who leads in the wedding dance - the bridal couple do! And all that red - easy child had always said she wanted to get married in red, but sister in law wanted her to wear white. So the red everywhere else was her compromise. sister in law in his speech told how he proposed at 8.08 pm on 8/8/08. When he got home 45 minutes later, he said, he was presented with the "wedding folder", with all the plans, swatches, draft speeches, guest list etc. A bit of an exaggeration perhaps, but only a bit.
easy child & sister in law went to Asia for their honeymoon. They flew to Bangkok and backpacked from there, catching trains mostly, through Thailand, Malaysia and finally to Singapore, arriving there today. They leave there on Saturday on the red-eye flight back to Sydney. Not sure how long they're staying with us, maybe overnight (to catch up on sleep). But knowing them - they'll be cracking their necks to get back home.
Glad you enjoyed the pics. I'll have to post more. Certainly by the next wedding. Number three - I feel like an old hand already. easy child 2/difficult child 2 & BF2 were visiting today so she could work on the first of the bridesmaids' dresses.
Marg
