The wedding was on the Saturday evening at the Melbourne Zoo and it was a lovely affair - the ceremony was held under a huge fig tree and the reception was next to an old carousel that ran for the guests while drinks and canopes were being served.
Unfortunately, poor Lily was teething and generally not a very happy little munchkin. She kept letting out loud piercing screams of frustration all evening - when she failed to catch the ducks, when we wouldn't let her pull the peacock's tail, when she had to ride in an elephant instead of on a horse (on the carousel), when she couldn't have everyone's champagne glass... You get the idea. So, as a result, P. spent a good chunk of the ceremony and reception taking her for walks around the zoo to look at the animals. (I also took her for walks and a play on the play equipment, but P. did the lion's share of the distracting).
The rest of our stay, however, Lily was pretty good. She mostly just hung out in the Ergo - both awake and asleep - and we tried to break up our wanderings with the odd stop at parks where she could romp around.
We arrived on Friday morning and headed over to Fitzoy and East Brunswick to browse the shops and grab a bite to eat. The shops were simply brimming with creativity - heaps of local artists had their stuff for sale in all the little boutique shops in this area - and it was really inspiring to see it all. I recognised quite a few items (especially a bunch of softies) from some of the craft blogs that I lurk around and discovered a whole heap of other creative Melbourne people. I also managed to pick up a little bit of fun fabric for my own attempts at creativity - despite sadly failing to actually get to any proper fabric stores.
We found a couple of cute parks for Lily to play in too, and she had an absolute ball. She is just loving swings at the moment, but she also had a great time riding down the slides on our laps and crawling through tunnels between the two of us.
Finally we got a snack at the Veggie Bar, but kind of stuffed up on the food front really. We arrived there between lunch and dinner and ended up eating some fairly boring snack-y food, rather than enjoying the range of vegan options that they had available. Sadly this was to set the tone for our attempted vegan adventures all weekend...On Saturday we headed out to the South Melbourne markets, where we picked up some lovely fresh bread, olives and domaldes for a mid-morning snack that ended up being lunch. It was lovely to see all the fresh produce at the markets, but other than that they were actually a little disappointing. I was hoping to see some more inspiring sights of creativity, but instead there was a lot of outlet stalls and cheap homewares.
In the afternoon, we headed over to St Kilda, where P used to live, and let Lily run wild on the Esplanade. As you can see (below), she enjoyed herself thoroughly.
In our rush to get to the wedding that evening we forgot to take along the present and so we had to head back over to St Kilda on the Sunday morning in order to drop it off at the family gathering that the Bride and Groom were attending before they left for their honeymoon. Since we were there we decided to check out the Esplanade Markets and this time I was not disappointed. Quite a few stalls at these markets had fantastic things for sale - bags, children's clothes, puppets, etc - all made by local artists using gorgeous fabrics. Once again I felt all inspired and, once again, it was hard work keeping my wallet closed.
Now we are back home and still just trying to keep our heads above water - with Lily, the PhD, P's job, the housework and general life all fighting for attention.
I hope that you all had a lovely weekend.
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