Wedding day

Friday morning was a relaxing one.  Take a look below at the "cloud of cuteness" that was created by Benjamin in the comfy bed.

 It started like sleepy Ben...

 And looked like this on closer inspection. I might have to make this an 8x10 all by itself!

We had breakfast and decided to give our bodies a try at windsurfing on a Hobie thingamabobber.

 Life vests for safety

 and they were off!! A captain could take up to three others out on one at a time.  Powered totally by wind and the skillful hand of the captain, these bad boys were awesome!! We cruised quickly over the waves and got splashed by crashing over cresting waves.  Really fun!!

 That's Scott with Addie and Graham.  Look closely, she's lounging like a professional on the hammock part!!

 Coming back onto shore.

 Judy, Tristan and Alex headed out too. Poor Judy was terrified of the waves and speed. Her bladder *may* have spontaneously emptied while out at sea...

After riding those awesome things, we found what I deemed "Nourie Cove and Grotto" where is essentially where we remained for the next five days...

 It's the other side of the swim up bar, inside the water park. See the tables and stools? This part was relatively shady and out of the burning sun.  See the little wall above Scott's head? That's where Mangoes is. If you make nice with the waitresses, she'd take our order from the water and bring our food out to us there. We ate our lunches in the water a few days too.

 The bar opened at 10:00am.  We were the first customers, so proud of that! :) The kids liked to sit on the bar stools and jump in.

 My proudest picture...strawberry daquiris! That's our bartending friend Owen in the background. He took care of us at Nourie Cove for a few days.  

 Cheers!

 Owen made us the Friday drink of the day... it may have been called the Tropical Dream or something like that. Others were The Fuzzy Thing, The BamBam, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, The Rum Runner and a few more. 

 Isn't it pretty? Actually now I think this one might have been called the Sunrise or something like that. No matter what, it was delicious.  Notice I've taken to wearing my shirt, so as to not get more color for the wedding.

 First thing drinks. There were plenty more that day...

Ben worked on his swimming and floating. 

 Graham with his dad just hours before he became a married man.

 These may have been Round Two of drinks.

 That would be Ben's booty, because he learned how to flip underwater.

 And he's back up!

 Going down the final body slide

 Whee!

 After that afternoon of fun we headed to the hotel room to get cleaned up and ready for the wedding.  Naturally I didn't bring my camera to the ceremony, because that might've looked tacky with a camera hanging from my neck while all dressed up. So these three pictures will have to suffice until we get the official beach wedding pictures from Keri.

 Handsomest ringbearer ever...we kicked off the sandals before the ceremony.

 This is actually after the whole wedding and dinner.

Can't wait for the formal pictures!! There's one of the four of us on the beach which should be superb!!