Last weekend we travelled 800km due north from Melbourne to attend the wedding of Yonki and Patrick in Wilcannia. What a trip!
For now I’ll just post some pictures, hoping to add more words later. It was a wonderful weekend and a terrific occasion, and adventure in itself just getting there and back.
Travelling to places we would not have otherwise rushed off to see but returning home richer in life’s experiences for it, as well as having spent a weekend together with so many Buykxs!
On the way up we were in convoy - Bubble 1, Bubble 2 and Terry’s “new” Peugeot. Hay is halfway between Melbourne and Wilcannia - an even 400km and on the banks of the mighty Murrumbidgee River. A lovely spot to stop, hardly a ute to be seen (they were all in Deniliquin, 125km back up the road for the annual Ute Muster) and the cheapest drinks this side of the Black Stump! With each round you can elect to “Toss the Boss” and toss a coin with the proprieter - if you win the toss the drinks are free! Heads came up for us so Terry’s generosity at the bar cost him very little indeed!
 
 
 
Off to the reception, in the grounds of the school:
Taking in some of the sights of the town:
Heading home again, we stopped in Ivanhoe to shake the dust out of the Bubbles and have a leg stretch (Bubble 1 and Bubble 2 here. The Peugeot went home the long way, via Broken Hill and Mildura):
And in a few weeks we do it all again! Anthony and Millie to tie the knot in Canberra on November 25th 2006!!
A momentous day for the D.B.’s was Ascension Day, 25th May, when Michael was ordained a permanent deacon. It was a splendid ceremony, very nearly like the ordination of a priest. An important difference, however, was that his wife Hanna and their children had an active part in it. She was involved in the ceremony to the extent that the bishop asked her explicitly whether she supports Michaels vocation, which she does.