Well surprisingly we have spent the last few days on the beach sunning ourselves. Today was the day Craigs been dreading as he finally was no longer in his prime and hit 30. he managed to have 4 birthday cards, which beats my 1! We headed to the beach, and popped back to the hotel at lunch. I had organised the hotel to put ballons, banners and cakes in the room for him. No i didnt choose the colour of the balloons, thats not intentional honest. We then headed back down to the beach with some ballons and chocolates to share with our friends. We head to another hotel tomorrow, which is closer to Copacabana for New Years eve celebrations. Craig says thankyou for the cards, emails, texts etc, much appreciated. And yes Ben 30 is old, although I may agree with you in a years time! Off to eat some cake and light the sparklers. We wont have our mobile with us on new years eve so we will speak to you all on !st jan! Oh by the way we are having such a great time in Brazil, relaxing in this red hot sunshine that we have decided to stay for another 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!