Kerry's Wedding

So we went to Kerry's wedding on Sunday. The hall was huge but Phoebe got the inside goss and we crept into a secret room off the side and found the bride... She was so beautiful it made me want to be married too.
It was a traditional Chinese Banquet! The actual ceremony is done at home then everyone is invited to the reception. There were performers dancing down the aisle... And two actors came down in the tradition bridal carriage - it must be nice having to play a bride every week.
Then our first course came down the aisle. It was lots of sashimi and lobster and shrimp salad.
Here's Phoebe, Batch and I. We're wearing a lot of pink because wearing pink or red to a wedding brings the couple good luck. And looks pretty.
Here was my favorite dish. It's sticky rice and beans and little pink and white balls. Everyone is meant to eat at least one white and one pink ball to wish the bride and groom have children - is that right? I can't check, lunch just finished and everyone in the office is asleep...
Julia went out to take photos and brought back a little boy and his mother. He was at ease sitting with us and after I gave him a toy, gave us all a kiss each - like a chubby cabbage patch kid.
At the end of the wedding Kerry came out in her last dress, and stood with her new husband by the exit, giving guests chocolate treats and photos of them. She looks so happy!! Is this what happens when you get married??
Here is the group after we'd eaten...
And here's us with the bride and groom...

M Moser pics

At the M Moser Anniversary




Moet and canapes make us happy

Snugglepots and Cuddlepies

This is more like it. the true mayhem of the day... but its gorgeous when they all scream Miss Louise!


These are my kindy kids at the Halloween show. Well, one class of them. I teach 5 classes, so there's another 120 babies of mine running around somewhere else.

Dinner!

Tonight I left work at 7pm and went straight for dinner. The girls decided we needed to splurge since the last couple days have been HARD.
So we went to TGIF, and bought heaps of food and some pricey drinks. These two families with kids from our school came in and the kids were in full HALLOWEEN costume! they were so adorable. we fussed and waved and ooohed over their cuteness. and when we finished our meal and were as stuffed as possible, the waitress came over and said the mother had just paid our bill. it was Money. i felt horribly guilty, and went out to 7/11 and bought them heaps of candy and chocolate and we gave it to them when we left.
Just when you feel alone and like no one wants you around, this happens and it feels like a wonderful world again. :)

What happened this week

I MCd the kindy Halloween show on Wednesday morning this week. Hundreds of little kids in costume singing 'If you ever see a monster'. Irrisistable!
Wednesday night sipped Moet and nibbled on salmon squares and blueberry tarts the size of a grape at the 25th anniversary of M Moser, a design company.
Thursday and Friday were wasted being exhausted from school - can all this work possibly be worth anything?? There's challenging and then there's just impossible. and under this workload I'm not getting any classes really done well, they're all just scraping by. I woke up this morning and could only think 'My one curriculum is for kindy. I have to make all my other classes curriculums myself.' How effing miserable.
Anyway, spent yesterday afternoon at the Jade market and bought lots of pretty things. Don't know what to do today but will think of something. TV calls

Baishawn Beach Photos

Louise and Batch make a mermaid

And manage to finish it

Louise Learns to Cartwheel, with Batch instructing

Louise starting a cartwheel Louise finishing a cartwheel

Our KTV Night Out

So our night at kareoke started like this. Very calm, collected and pretty.

Ms Kathleen Batchelor took the lead as our ktv host of the night.

It soon descended into drunken giggling and screams of Achy Breaky Heart...