We have had an eventful past few weeks! I guess i'll start with the homeless world cup since it happened first. The homeless world cup is an annual event that is always held in a different country. Basically, homeless people from 56 countries (well it was 56 this year) competed in a week long soccer tournament. It's super cool (and free!) entertainment! Canada competed but only won 1 out of 3 games. better than nothing! Anyway, it's an awesome event and it's a good cause!

Now on to the important stuff! Jessica is no longer Jessica Mibus and is now Jessica Westphal! Yes, she got hitched! all the anticipation for this wedding was not wasted!! It was an awesome time! We headed out to Halls Gap (about 3 hours from Melbourne) with Erin on Friday morning and when we got there, we helped with anything and everything that needed doing for the wedding the next day. We helped Erin with some wedding cake things, and we helped cut flowers and set up the reception hall. It was a big day, but good times! we finished the evening with craploads of pizza and champagne...and beer. haha! and we saw kangaroos!! Real live ones!! and a joey in her pouch that was so big that it was hanging out of the pouch eating grass with its mama!
The next day was the wedding of course! More helping was to be done in the morning, so we were in the kitchen first thing helping to make appetizers to eat between the ceremony and reception. The finishing touches were done in the hall, and I went to shower and get dressed! The wedding was held in the outdoor chapel and it was lovely! Martin rode the bride in on a passenger tricycle cart (Jessica had no idea they had this planned by the way) and she looked stunning! The wedding was amazing and the couple looked awesome! We had delicious appetizers before dinner and then we moved to the reception hall where the party began! Good food, live music, drinking and dancing was to be found! All in all, it was indeed the wedding of the century and i'm sad it's over already! We got to meet some really cool people and we got to see some amazing stuff on the hike we took in the grampians the next morning! gorgeous!
We have now returned to Melbourne and we are going to the Market today! Upcoming events include christmas with the Mibuses/Westphals, Tasmania shortly after for New years and then our trip up the coast in February! I will write before then don't you worry!

As it gets closer to christmas, we are really missing home, so you are all very much in our thoughts!!! We love you!!

Lisa and Jean-Michel

written by  jeanmichelisa on December 8, 2008 from Halls Gap, Australia
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Lisa's writing, combined with the excitement of Jess' wedding, makes for a blog entry with 35 exclamation points.

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written by  manguscon on December 8, 2008

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