Hi Everyone,

Well were back on tha main land now and we fly out to LA tonight. We have had a fantastic 3 weeks here and the weather picked up for us and we've had some beatuiful sunshine.

We did another dive on Manta Ray island, although we didnt see any Manta Rays we did have a really good dive. That takes it to 21 dives now and probably our last of the trip.

The islands have been really nice and all very different from each other. They werent as cheap as we were expecting though. The last 2 nights we had on the isladns we stayed at Octopus Resort (one i picked). Jack nearly had a heart attack when we arrived saying "How much bloody money are we paying for this, shows you picked it, oh were going to be broke" It was so nice, somewhere you could go for a 2 week holiday but it wasnt expensive at all and he relaxed when he saw the price. We couldnt afford our own room so we stayed inthe dorm but it was really nice. We always judge a resort on the standard of the food and the first night was a BBQ buffet with garlic mussles, Burgers, Fish, peppered steak, garlic bread etc etc etc. So as you can guess we were both in heaven. That night we met an Irish couple and between the 4 of us managed to win 2 bottels of champagne (Cheap!!!) playing games on the beach. Me and Geraldine won a balloon game and then we one another for a beer drinking game. The next night they put up a big screen around the pool and we watched Smoking Ace. They even came round with popcorn (Free!!!!) We spent our last days lazuing on the beach reading books and swimming in the sea and we even drank Kava (Fijian taditional ceremony drink) Jack liked it but it tasted like spicy soil!!

Weve had a fantsatic time here and glad we chose it as one of our last stops. Off to LA tonight. We've hired a car and were off the Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon for a few days then back to LA for 1 day before we fly to New York.

We both cant belive how quickly the time has gone and we will be back a week on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Loads of Love

Liz and Jack xxxxx