Good Morning all,

My first blog as a 23 year old, do i feel different? Slightly hung over, theres a strange aroma coming from my clothes and i havent brushed my teeth in over 24 hours so....no :)

My birthday surpassed my expectations! As promised we had our fry up and headed straight for the beach. The waves were just as scary as the day before but being thrown about by the waves is part of the fun. Josh built an almighty sand castle which would have been perfect had he not built it with our saucepan which is sadly a saucepan no more! I burried chris in the sand - with just his head poking out. We all had a little sunbathe then went for a mooch around Byron.

The boys were all successful buying things whereas i was frantically running in and out of shops trying to find my birthday outfit. Eventually i found a gorgous burgundy dress bought by chris and josh bought me a skirt. We went back to the Arts Factory and had our first beer of the night listening to a rock band; we all freshened up and had another couple of rounds at the campervan before setting off into town on the free bus!

We ate at a thai restaurant which was delicious! We had a 'naughty' shot (as John would say) to begin the meal aswell as a cosmopolitan for the birthday girl. We all chuckled and reminicised about old times and told embaressing stories about ourselves, mine being falling up the stairs in the underground splitting my dress and giving everyone behind me a rather interesting morning! We walked to a few bars but everywhere seemed quiet so we felt a bit deflated and contemplated going back to the campervan but alas chris asked in a bar where is the place to go, we went to a club just down the road which was insane!

I dont think i have ever danced so hard before, we were the life and soul of that club! we showed people how to really dance, british style! we would dance for 20 minutes then have a drinking break then continue with the festivities! every time we had a drink we would toast to my birthday, i think the boys are a bit happy to be talking about something else now haha All of sudden Josh has this look of concern on his face and says 'wheres my wallet?', straight away were all freaking out and all the fun has just been sucked out of the situation. We all begin the hunt and head for the dance floor; josh then comes back from the bar and someone had handed it in with everything in it!!! We all felt even more sensational than before josh lost the wallet - that deserved a special dance - the celebratory josh has found his wallet dance!

We partyed into the early hours of the morning, and on our walk back sat and watched a man play guitar then waited for the free bus. We were in fact in the wrong place to get picked up so we had to get a taxi. We got back and fell into a wonderful state of slumber.

We were awoken this morning by a turkey rummaging through our rubbish. Now were all packing up the campervans heading south to who knows where, we have 20 minutes to get out of the park so im going to leave it here. Thank you all for your birthday messages, all very kind. May i wish my mum a magnificent birthday.

Love to all, Love Jess, Chris and Josh xxxxx