well hi there, hope your flight was okay and you arrived safetly, we are all better now. must say a bug thankyou for the postcard from jonny joop, cooper just stood there with his mouth open when i read it to him, amanda came round and was reading it and she said you got a postcard from jonny and cooper was like yeah, as if it happens every day, he had to get amanda to draw jonny's house on the etchascetch thing as well, you will have to fix up your diary thogh as its not faired income but fair dinkum, meaning like really it did happen or also like he was a fair dinkum bloke ie that he was genuine and down to earth, we have got to keep the aussie slang going, seen as you fitted alot of it in one postcard. cant wait to hear how the way of track travels are going when you start, take care lots of love lou

Just about to leave for the Airport. Had a lovely time with Keith and Lasi. We must come back as there is so much more to see. Flight is at 5.15 pm and arrive in Santiago at 12.45pm same day! We are now time travellers. First stop Chile then up to Peru for the Inca's, then on to Bolivia, Argentina and finally Brazil. Will try and put a few pictures on when we can. With lots of love V & S xxxxx

Mum, Dad and Katie - was lovely speaking to you today. Will email or text when we get there. Love you all lots. Tor xxx

Mum, Dad and Lucy - Hope you have a great holiday!!! Will email or text to let you know we arrived safe. Lots of love Si and Vee xxx

Me & the rest of the team had the same argument on the early part of the tour. We couldn't agree on the official team dunkin biscuit. Hob nobs or Ginger nuts. To stop all the bickering I decided to take 5 days off last week (Sorry, make that 4) & concentrate on improving team spirit by creating the ultimate dunker. I burnt my elbow in the process. You might have seen picures of me with a bandage on. I told the press it was a bowling injury. Any way, I had mixed success. My first effort 'The Langar Biscuit' was promising. It looked great but crumbled under slight pressure. The lads liked 'The Kasprovic Biscuit' but it just kept flying off their plates to the boundary. I eventually came up with the ULTIMATE. A square biscuit (The lads kept dropping the round ones & me, Warney & Ponting were getting pretty racked off at picking up the pieces on the pitch so b*****ed if we're going to do it off the pitch as well). Any way, this one stands up to anything we can throw at it'. Hard as nails. We've called it 'The Flintoff' Don't think Freddie likes biscuit though. I offered him one the other day when he was walking back to the pavillion after scoring 102. He said 'Stuff it back in the oven for a week til it's burnt to a cinder cos that'll be the only ashes youre gonna take back to Auz'

All depends which continent you're on & the age of the biscuit. As me & the lads are finding out at the moment almost everything from Australia is a bit soft & the older it gets the softer it becomes. Not sure if it's the same in NZ.

We need your help! Sig and I have been having a gripping debate over the dunk factor of a hob nob compared to that of the mighty Ginger nut. We have eaten a few ginger nuts, mainly because they are very cheap. We have noticed that the Ginger can take a good few dunks. Sig actually managed to get 10 dunks before he had to eat his biscuit mush. We can't afford Hob Nob's and so we set you the dunk challenge, Peter Kaye stylie!!! "dunk me again!!". Please inform us on how many dunks you acheive and if there are any other rivals to the mighty Ginger!!!! xx xx xx Many thanks xx xx xx

Hiya u 2! thanks! And thnks for the card!- if u knew about it ! Auntie Alison brought me it round today from you all so thnks v much!
Off 2 a party 2 nite! And wer all camping in the garden, well field! - Massive house with field as garden!
Hope your having a great time! Oooohhh yeh forgot 2 tell you dont think i will be joining you now to take up your job offer! I got a job at sainsburys- start training on 12th! So think that will be better as its a bit closer to home hahaha!!!
Speak 2 u again soon loveya bth lds Charl xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Start 6th form on friday cant believe it!

Sounds like you had a pretty busy Saturday. Thanks for the texts. So sad to hear Rhino's lost. We were keeping our fingers crossed for them. We've just been on Sky Sports and read the report. Sig even slept with Ronnie last night for good luck! Sig says Ronnie had the horn all night!!! (For those of you who don't know who Ronnie is he is my cuddly rhino teddy). As you know we watched the All Blacks V South Africa. It was a great game. We went to a bar to watch it. We haven't been out drinking for a while and so the taste of beer was a welcome relief. After the rugby we moved on to an Irish bar to watch the AMAZING CRICKET!!! We were hooked!!!! COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!!!! Glad to hear Katie is doing well after having her tonsils out. Tell her I got her text and will email her back. Glad to hear Robert and Lynda are now back on line. Can you please say hi to them from me when they call. Also can you send on my congrats to Tommy and Linda. We are in Auckland until the 1st September. Hoping to meet up with Keith and Lassi when they get back from Australia. Hi to everyone. Lots of love Victoria & Sig xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Wow Wee Louise me and Vic nearly wet our pants reading that! a hole in the cave where the thing was - we could see from your typing just how excited you are too! (Vic reckons it must be "hell" for sure now!) Thanks again - we're great! how about you, everyone better now and Cooper over his broken heart? :) See ya soon, Si and Vic xxx

Congratulation Charlotte Excellent stuff! Such a bright girl but you hide it so well :)!!!! Well really pleased, well done!!! xxxx

Hi Travellers, Just a quick hello before a busy Saturday morning work starts. KT is doing well although throat still tender. She's not going to the footie today(Luton). Kenny & Christine have tkts & will sit with nan. Mum & me are in posh bit. Brian is sponsoring the game so we get his tickets. If it's no good will probably spend time watching cricket in the bar! Lynda & Robert's pc is up & running again & they will probably try to catch up with you. They are calling us this weekend to check on KT. Hope all is well with you 2. Take care....Love dad xxxx

Hi Guys, Sorry we havent left a message sooner, our computer has been playing silly b*****s! Looks like you two are having fun!! Did you buy a pair of velcro gloves for the sheep?!! Keep having fun and dont forget to find the jail that Meghann was talking about in South America! talk soon, Dont forget to have a years supply of canned fish in case there is war in South America... REMEMBER tinned fish keeps forever!!
Luv Chris & Meghann (Howlong Bogans)

Home from Spain now and watching you. NZ looks great, north island round the corner. Give our love to Picton and the fastcat over Cook Strait. Hope it is a smooth crossing.