I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a week away, but thought I'd leave you all with some photos and tales from a wedding we went to yesterday.

For a little run-down that conveys a sense of my part of the world quite well, I'll give a short description of the players ...

Groom: from South Africa, works with my husband at the world's largest tuna processing plant.

Bride: from Philippines, was working there too, until recently.

Best Man: German dentist, from Bavaria ... and that's important, apparently ... who has been living in Seychelles for longer than I have. He wore lederhosen for the occasion. Considering that lederhosen are leather and it was about 90F degrees, I wasn't the only one to comment on his nuttiness. (See photo of strangely-clad dentist.)

Attendees: paragliders, bikers, divers, writers, photographers, factory workers from Seychelles, Philippines, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, England, France, Cambodia and the USA.

Ceremony: In English according to Seychelles law.

Food: Philippine style roast suckling pig , deep-fried octopus, Thai vegetables noodles, squid salad, green papaya salad, spicy Creole pork curry with coconut milk, rice, steak and mushroom stir fry ... and other stuff I can't recall.

And a dessert buffet with at least fifteen different offerings. This was the first of its kind Sam had seen, and he was in heaven.
Unfortunately, this cornucopia of sticky-sweetness ended up providing my boy with a life lesson: in the middle of the night he vomited up the chocolate cake he'd somehow managed to stuff himself with while Mark and I were assuming he was still working on his first serving and is not at all feeling well today.

Since we have a plane to catch tomorrow morning, we're hoping he's much better by then ... and possibly more restrained when it comes to sweets from now on.

Have a lovely week, dear friends and casual readers. I'll have lots to tell you when I return, and will have possibly replenished my creative well enough to take some of the blah out of my blahgs and get to blogging again.