3 months after our wedding our honeymoon as finally come about, it has seemed to take forever to come but it is now here. Come tomorrow morning we will be flying to the US for a 1 day stopover in Los Angles for a quick it of shopping and then down to South America to the centre of the amazon to the city of Manaus.

From there we cruise along the river stopping along the way to explore the fishing villages and the rain forest. Then we stop at the old penal colony of Devils Island to see some ruins and same history.

Then we cruise up to the Caribbean with a stopover to swim with some turtles and then finishing up in Florida in the US. We then have a Mustang convertible booked for 2 days to drive down the Florida keys and back and then our honeymoon is over. Here’s the map:

I’ll update this blog with photos when I have internet access.

This is how hot it was outside the car with Sanna driving today!

Another day of doors closed, fans on, lots of cold drinks.

We know Damien is a women don’t we 🙂

This is how hot it gets in Sydney when we have a heat wave, 43 degree’s almost halfway to water boiling that hot!

Right now at 4:30pm in the afternoon its just over 41 degree’s outside. We have no air-con at home so if we open the windows or balcony doors all the hot air will come pouring in. I’m tempted to stick a frying pan out there and see if we can cook a egg.

It is so hot that the Australia Bureau of Meteorology or the BOM as all aussies call it, has had to create a new colour for their heat chart, a deep purple to show 54 degrees in the outback!

We tried to offer iced water to our customers at Cousin Jacks to give them a break from the heat.

This is how one of the horses of Sydney cools down having a drink in the 43 degree heat today.

Damien and I found this sign in a shop we walked past. Made us laugh how they spell Souvenirs 🙂

A happy Christmas from Australia! We visited the lights at St Marys cathedral and it started to rain so hard, we laughed a lot. The lights looked spectacular through the rain.

We are very very wet here, but we still have time for 1 beer in the rain.

We had Christmas day in Wollongong with the Aussie half of the family. Here is Damien unwrapping his toy helicopter I bought him, he loved it.

All the way from England, my favourite, Maynards wine gums.

Damien’s helicopter ready for its maiden flight into the skies.

A video of Damien flying his helicopter I bought him into our car, silly boy Damien.

Just in case you didn’t know, all our wedding photos are now over on www.beddysblog.com/markandsannaswedding

It was December the 8th and one week before my wedding and it was the day and the evening of my bucks! We went go karting doing a Grand Prix format of 4 races of 7 laps and 1 race of 12 laps at the end. Racers were, Josh, Chris, Jay, Cameron, Ivan, Nick, Turk, Damien me and Dad.

Here is everyone before the racing started.

Everybody looks like a bad motorcycle display team

Damien looking like a dorky factory worker

A dodgy team of drivers

The overall winners, first place was me with 49 points, with Josh just 1 point behind. Cameron did extremely well coming overall 3rd and with his 110kg weight disadvantage, that was some skilful driving from him.

1st, 2nd and LAST PLACE for Damien, the super frenchie look of shame

First place trophy, too bad Josh, you did well but it just wasn’t good enough

Next we moved onto the Rocks bucks pub crawl, those who came, Josh, Chris, Jay, Brendon, Cameron, Nick, Easton, Turk, Troy ‘The Ninja’, Damien and me and Dad.

Bucks night out in Rocks for Marks Bucks pub crawl, Thanks for the Pink Angel wings to wear, I received lots of compliments.

The Beddy/Bedfo/Beddo Bucks pub crawl – Certificate of Achievement

Our pub crawl route, we covered off the BEST pubs of the Rocks!

The Australian Hotel where there beer flows quickly and the the pizzas are super good

Josh the joker

Troy the Ninja swaps his computer geek glasses with a girl for her reindeer antlers

Best photo of the night, everyone from the crawl.

At the Mercantile hotel we were outside drinking under a tree and a Possum poo’d in dads beer! haha

Damien took the Pink Angel wings at the Mercantile hotel for a bit

The 2nd to last pub, the Hero of Waterloo (old mans pub).

On the walk back home through the city we bumped into Sanna carrying her blow-up Mark doll around.

The Troy ‘Ninja’ wasn’t so stealthy in this public wee stop

Damien and Dad and a blow-up doll having a threesome