A busy September

I can't believe September is almost over. It has been an emotional month. We started off the month with my usually week long celebrations of my birthday. After my birthday celebrations were over Benny got me into line to focus on packing up our flat. Who knew we could accumulate so many things after two years. We lived in a fully furnished and ended up with too many boxes across two of our friends's basements. We spent two solid weekends packing up and cleaning the flat. Saturday night was our last night there. It was so sad, an end of place very special to us. It is where Benny and I shared so many special moments together such as planning our trips, having many visitors on our couch, dinner parties and dancing in the living room. It was such a tiny flat, more than half the size of our Taringa place. By the end of two years, it felt like home with all our pictures on the wall. I am already missing our walk down Clarendon Drive, the view from our kitchen window, the quirks of the flat, and the amazing deep bath. I am though so excited about our next adventure living with Em and Sam only four minutes down the road. We have found a lovely two bedroom, two bath flat only a few metres from my favourite Putney coffee shop. We move in the day we get back to London.

We only have one more week and a day of work before flying a non-direct route back home.  Our jobs have kindly given us extended leave for our wedding celebrations. All the plans are coming together for one of the biggest day's of our lives. It will be a year this Sunday since we got engaged.  I'm very much looking forward to marrying my best friend. He is the love of my life and our time in London has only made us stronger as a couple. When we arrived here, two years ago we had never spent so much time together. We moved here not knowing more than ten people. Our time here has tested the strength of our relationship. I couldn't imagine not sharing the moments over here without Benny. Travelling together, seeing new parts of the world  and meeting some amazing people along the way. We have discovered little things about each other which we had never known. I am very much looking forward to the rest of our lives together as Mr and Mrs Holtam.

Last week we had the pleasure of meeting the minister who is marrying us. He was over here visiting his son. We met at one of the local pubs and on arrival we were introduced to his wife, son, son's girlfriend and the flat mates. It was such a good evening. We had a couple of drinks and really got to know Philip. We are both are so happy we found him. He is retired from the church across the road from the venue so he has granted our wish to marry us in the garden.

Not long now until we are back in Australia, for five weeks and we return back to London as husband and wife.