Celebrating with Christi & Paul

Today we travelled to Birmingham for lunch with Christi and Paul. They were recently engaged - in Paris of all places. Paul and I worked together back in Melbourne and we've become good friends. So of course I was very happy when I heard the news of the engagement. And of course Paul went to extraordinary lengths in planning the trip to Paris. You can read some details on his blog.

Christi heads back to the Florida on Tuesday so we wanted to catch up with both of them before she left. Thanks to the satnav (ok - I'll stop mentioning it soon) we arrived without much hasstle on their doorstep. Only a little over two hours to cover the 100 or so miles.

Now before I go much further I have to comment on that ring. Its a solitare set in a platinum ring. And boy does it sparkle. Very nice. Take a look at this photo and you'll see the ring.

We spent a few hours at an Italian restaurant at the Mailbox catching up. After some wine, calzone, and coffee we strolled the shops at the Bullring. Christi and Paul live in an apartment pretty much in the centre of the action. These new shopping centres have everything you could need. So I'm sure we'll be back to more thoroughly check them out.