Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Tis the Season

The parents are safely back in their native environs, leaving us to batten down the hatches for our next wave of visitors in a week's time. We're getting better at our routine of what to do and where to go with people, each visit finds new discoveries.

Last week we were in the botanical gardens for a leisurly Saturday stroll. The gardens themselves are poised right on the harbour, giving the hills and vales magnificent views of the opera house and bridge. Over the course of an afternoon, we must have seen a half dozen weddings going on, either in the garden, under the pagoda, on the harbour boats. Some looked like simple civil ceremonies, whereas others were lavish affairs.

We perched on a rock in the botanical gardens to watch the sunset (and the bats come out) when we stumbled upon a particularly comedic couple. They had three photographers working the two of them and their six wedding party members - none of which who were 'kind to the lens'. The various poses and gestures that the photographers made them go through were rediculous. To pay thousands of dollars for a shot of three groomsman from the rear, hunched over a sea wall with the opera house in the distance, mot my kind of value and certainly wouldn't make it to my mantlepiece anytime soon.

posted by ncawthon at 8:20 AM