After a brief shuteye, we decided to get up around 8 and went down to breakfast before 9. Eleanor was the first to come in. We enjoyed chatting with various folk including one of Judith's cousins who lives near Denmark in North Germany,and is a graphic designer for nature parks. It was good to be able to have a chat with Christina and find out a little about her family. She and Kelvin were married in the UK so most of the Turner family didn't manage to get there.
After lots of goodbyes, we left around 1pm. Pics are of our three children, Kelvin & Christina, and of a bouquet (not sure whether it was Judith's or not!)
We went with Judith's brother and Jeremy to Dorsten; Anthony and Judith went in her parents. Eleanor was going to travel to Cologne and stay there the night. We did offer to go with her so we could spend some time together, but she wanted to travel on later that Sunday.
The next meal after breakfast was coffee & wedding cake in the garden - by then we were all feeling hungry! It was a lovely sunny day until late afternoon when it clouded up and became colder. Their little dog, Joy, who's now 14, kept us amused.
At one stage Jeremy and Judith came in with a red balloon. I didn't think too much of it until I realised that it was full of origami birds, which turned out to be made from Euros - how did they get them inside?! After that we watched the Youtube film that was the inspiration for the Kiwi cake before the newly weds cooked us a late dinner of lasagne and salad (Judith's mum was out at a friend's party).
Bruce and I had a bit of a brain-wave - as we were so close to Holland, why didn't we try to see whether we could fit in a visit to the Weavers, missionary friends of ours from our Ashburton days. We eventually managed to get through on the phone, and found out that they'd love to have us for a couple of days.
After coffee and yet more cake for supper, we showed some photos of Erin, then I had to find us some cheap train fares on the internet.
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