Went to discover the delights of Wal Mart this afternoon. We're still marvelling at how cheap everything is over here. It was Kate's birthday today so a load of us went bowling tonight. Kate is Laura's sister's boyfriend's sister...! It was really good fun, a proper American night out!

Went to a housewarming at Aaron's (workmate of Laura's) on Friday night and then spent Saturday recovering. mainly drinking tea, eating pizza and watching an Only Fools & Horses marathon. Went for a mexican at a cool little place then up to Malcolm's. There were quite a few people there but most left early. Malc has a large patio area with a pool, bbq, hot tub, huge bar and a jukebox. Nic and I went to bed about 5.30am, then got up at 8am to watch the Englan...

Strange but true. Lots of people in havasu play darts! Laura is on a team so Dan and I went with her to the bar where she was playing, Coyotes. It was a cool American dive bar. Laura just thinks that it's a dive, but she's been here for over 2 years. It had americana all over the walls and pitchers of beer and looked like it hadn't been decorated since the 60s. Laur'as team won and we went to meet Matt in another bar, he'd been playing darts too...

Dan. Nic, Madisson and I set off to walk to Laura's office to meet her for lunch. Nic has been here for 2 months and has done this almost every weekday but, typical me, I completely overheated and thought I may pass out. So we had to go into a doctors' waiting room for me to cool down! Laura came to pick us up and we popped into her office to say hi to Malcolm (her dad), Victoria (her sister) and evryone else, then went to the Chinese restaurant next door. A...

Uncle Mike dropped us off at the Greyhound station this morning for the 7 hour bus ride to Kingman. Dan got admiring comments about his outfit from a spaced out hippy dude on the bus, and even more admiring comments when he said he'd bought the top in Bangkok! Sedona is on fire. The wild fire started a few days ago and has spread to Oak Creek Canyon, people have been evacuated from their homes. We drove past on the highway and saw billows of yellowy smoke. ...