Home sweet home

You could call it a bit short-notice when my sister Anna told us in August that she was going to get married just a month later. After a bit of planning here and there we made it possible to go home to Austria for a short visit! Imagine our excitement, and we couldn't even tell anyone - it was to be a secret/surprise wedding! So we turned up at Vienna airport and Anna, her hubby-to-be and their son Jakob picked us up. At that point they had just texted their parents, siblings and grand-parents that they were going to marry the next day.

On the way home Tom then called his mom and asked what it would be for dinner. If it was Cordon bleu, he'd come by ... by the time we got there, his mum had already dried her tears (with help from a neighbour and some Schnaps) and the Cordons were cooking. We hadn't told Luci's family yet but when we got to Anzenberg, the "bush telephone" had already worked and we were expected! Was quite a shocker still!

The two weeks that followed then were full of friends, family, heaps of great food and wine - just lovely! A few pics for you to see a few things we were up to!

First a few pics from before we even started to Austria - we wanted to bring our parents some pictures from us in our traditional clothes on a beach in NZ. Our flatmate Noelia played the photographer. Tom also took the chance for a bit of "Herminating". The pics were taken in Sandfly bay, by the way.

The first and most important event of the trip was Anna and Bernhard's wedding - quite an unusual wedding in Austrian terms, nonetheless a great one. Congratulations again!

And here's a compilation of pics from the rest of our trip!