Glad to hear you are enjoying yourselves and had a great Christmas. Wanted to wish you a Happy New Year! May all your wiashes and dreams come true......think they are already!
Love you loads and see you next year!
Sharon and Georgia xxxx
Griff
Hi to the two of you,Happy xmas and hope you have a good new year, and i know you will. Emz you miss are staff night out it was good but wish you was their missing you loads. Bill was up in arms about the condom thing that was funny but has no idea it was me. My sistre had her baby girl on the 14th dec she is lovely her name is cicily as the country at the bottom of Italy but with a C and not S, have lots of gossip to tell the both of you have a good one and make sure you take it all in and not to get to drunk (ya right) see you both in 2008 Happy new year xx
Sharon And Geaorgia
Hi gorgoeus girlies!
Happy happy happy Christmas to you! Thinking of you guys and hope you have a special day to remember today. Georgia woke up at 7am!! Bonus unexpected lie in! A very excited little angel!
Love you both. Hope you liked your pressie?!
Love , light and Christmas sparkly magic to you both,
Love as always from your cousins
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cousin Sam
Hi Emily and Sarah
Hope the last few days have gone better. Jess and I just got back from a weekend in New York City. What an amazing place. It was one of those weekends where everything went right, except for ending up with very sore feet from all the walking. We saw Spamalot, went to the Empire State building and saw the Statue of Liberty from a distance. Pretty cool!
I wish you both a wonderful Holiday. Jess has to work so we are going to celebrate in the evening.
Enjoy this amazing opportunity. Merry Christmas, with love,
Cousin Sam
Hayles
Right guys
sorry to lump it on you at christmas but your tescos insurance is not cancelled, just the direct debit and thyey are geting arsy. you need to ring 'em on 0845 300 4400 and qoute your policy number which is 87108167 and give them your security info so you can cancel it. there will be a cancellation fee but mum can sort it out. do it before the 1st of Jan as thats when the next installment is due....
crikey...well hope that all made sense let us know if you need any more info, speak to ya tomorrow xxxx
Mum (Liz)
Hi there both of you,
Worry not, the gas bill has been sorted and paid. So has the water bill, Sarahs car insurance and Hayles. As we speak there are no outstanding monies owed that I know of.
How are you both doing? I'm sorry that you have been having a difficult time with the locals the last week or two. Never mind, continue to shine the light from within as you always do and you will leave parts of malaysia a better place when you head of for aussie land.
Will call you first thing on Christmas morning. We are going to miss you too, it will be very strange celebrating Chrimbo without you, but we will be thinking of you both and I really hope you have a good time in your posh hotel Christmas Singapore style!
Until we speak, take care of each other, Love to you both Mum xxxx
Rufus
Hey Girles,
Kripes, only read your blog for first time since last msg 2nite and a lot has happened eh!! Its a funny one cause at home 2 weeks just goes without a blink and then when your away 2 weeks is ages cause you can do so much in that time and so much can happen. f**** weird time innit!! Well onto the positivity.......2 weeks certainly does fly by here and thats how long I have until I get on my big jet plane(s) so yeah well excited and also bit nervous!! N.Z is a great place to get away form all that madness of tourism, although its there there are more cafes with organic cake than Maccy Dees. Cant wait to see you there =)
So heres my plan.............I arrive on 17th in Nelson airport at 5pm, Joels pickin me up from airport and taking me to Motueka where he lives and where I'll be staying for first coupla weeks. Motueka is 45 mins drive from Nelson, its a little hippyish place very close to Abel Tasman. It would be great place for you guys to land after Christchurch as its nice and small and near beaches. Plan is Joel is working on 18th so I'll just be chillin in the locality and then there is a party on 19th-20th so would be f**** cool if we all went 2getha eh!! Rekon it would be fokin mental if you get to Motueka on 18th then I can meet you, tell you where best hostel is and make plans for next day...... then off we trot to a eco festival in the middle of a national park.....heeeheeee...... mischief!! Then me and Joel will dissapear for coupla days until 22nd when he goes back to work but we can point you in direction of cool places to stay/visit in area for coupla days then when we get back on 22nd we can all get some kayaks and go kayaking on the the abel tasman, f**** beautiful there, you'll love it and not a maccy dees in sight!! Oh its gonna be a marvellous summer and its winter here, could it be better?!!
Well stay in touch, not long now. Happy festive season ma luvlies, I found it hard to be away from everyone at times too, its funny but its only a day of the year and dont forget, you've had loads at home and you will have loads at home again, this is once in a lifetime.......(maybe) but anyway, enjoy it, dont think of home tooooo much and see ya down under v.soon =)
Haiz
Hi guys,
I definitly agree with Sharon, The people you are meeting now that are not so enlightened shall we say, are serving the purpose of educating you on a global scale in the context of what you are here to do, and helping you gage your strategy better. You may not see it yet but you will when you get back. Plus its good that you can help them too. Its ironic that you're travelling to get 'cultered' and yet its more like your culturing them! Just think, you are helping them see another way of doing things and spreading good culture instead of Mcs*** and Star bucks!!! Keep on doing it, be as different as you like, and spread your wonderfull attitudes of acceptance and love and kindness to all, wherever you go and you will be making the world a better place just by being there. Never underestimate the seeds you sow and influences you make by doing good deeds or just smiling at someone. Of course we all knew you would be doing this anyway coz your fab!
Today i am a bit miserable because im fed up of the cold and boringness here (its not nice to be cold!) and want to do another jungle treck with all the vast nature that part of the world has to offer! i want to walk out the door and sweat too! i feel better dreaming away and imagining you guys and what your up to on your adventures. You will have bad times but remember what an amazing place you are in and just bloody soak it up coz you WILL miss it when you come home.
It might be strange being away on Christmas but just go mad and make it as different as possible thats the key, That way it will be one of the most memorable Christmases of your life and you will always look back warmly on it!
Loving you girlies very much, Dad is working on the web cam, so find a place near you. and we can do the same on boxing day too if you like then we can all scream Merry Christmas at you from a.hils living room!!! ha ha that would be cool.
K, have fun guys. Peace out from the cold place.
Paul Cooke
Hello lush ladies...
So nice to hear your trips, at work. The heating does not work here, so sitting in my coat and scarf!
Thailand is stunning, but the reason I hated it was your explanation on the perils of development. People, who get pissed because they cant get egg n chips or Eastender...so the world a favour and go to Blackpool.
Yes, development is good but not when it creates serveral classes. And thats even within the "travelling" community! At the end of the day, we are all "tourist's" no matter what word you use. Package, backpacker, traveller...all the same and we all contrubite torwards a local enconmey but we all also contruibute towards the sick divide that is created in places like Thailand. Could you really have a valuable and genuie diaologue between another person, when they see the colour of your skin and therefore the colour of your money and legacy on the world stage!! ANYWAY! In the nutshell, its what you do along the way. Travelling is a joy, fun, life riching and life changing expereince. We can do this in Adsa carpark, Greenbank park, mount edgecombe or sitting at home whatching corrie. But travelling further afield offers some what more, and I know I said in a nutshell...so its about the reaction and sensetivitey of how you approach and treat that expereince!
And by the way....We got lush hotel in sydney...in a place were development is the norm...unfortunley places like Thailand it is not!!
Enough of the high horse! I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU AND MISS YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!
Can't wait to go and dance witht he gays in Kings cross!!
Love from Paul and Love from Andy xx
Oh...MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ALL THAT STUFF........HOHOHO...
Oh Sarah and Em..Have you fiished your books...want me to bring any, for the trip home?
Sharon
Hi Guys,
Just thinking about you both and sending you some sparkly Christmas magic! Hope you both have an amazing time in your posh hotel. Will be thinking of you both on Christmas day of course. Have fun, enjoy and be magnificent.
Loves ya both
Sharon and Georgia xxxxxxxxxx
Sharon And Georgia
Hi adventurers,
Now I've had a chance to read your blogs... i'm sorry you had it rough but just be the magnificant people that you both are and remember to ask for 'thems ups aboves to elp' when the going gets tough. Always know you will come through it and just shine the beautiful light that you both are. Just think of the good you are going to do those who meet you!!! WOW there's a thought.
Sam...thanks for the message and your thoughts...sending you and Jess much love xx
Keep on keeping on girls. Sending Love and Light to you both,
Sharon xxxx
Haiz
Hello you two,
You nearly made me cry with that blog, dunno whether its because i'm gonna miss you guys over christmas back here, or because i wanna be out there with you! Got home safe, was a fab journey considering the length, although the plane food poisoned me! lovely. Its bloody freezing here, i'm sleeping with two jumpers on! and its so weird, ive changed and everything else has been steadfast in time. Will be following you through your journey like white on rice! and ill get dad to sort out a web cam for christmas day! love you both very much, have a fab time and be safe!!!