Dear Anyone-Left-Who-Has-Bought-Us-A-Gift-And-I-Haven't-Thanked-Them-For-It-Purely-Accendental-I-Hope-You-Understand-Because-We-Still-Thoroughly-Appreciate-Your-Thought-And-Kindness I once went to a party where you had to dress up as what you wanted to be when you grew up. I went as a dolphin trainer. This entailed defacing a cheap t-shirt with a marker pen so that it read 'Dolphin Trainer' on it and had a cartoon picture of a dolphin. A rather poor effort at fa...

JIM AND DONNA”S GUIDE TO SUNBATHING So it has been just over a week since I last wrote a blog and like a heroin junkie I have been missing my fix of waiting for Donna to get ready, while sitting at a computer vomiting inane words onto the page, like a spring break teenager who has just discovered that free drinks all night really means free drinks all night. The reason for the lack of blog action is a lack of material to write about. This is because for the ...

Dear Matt, Jodie and Queenie Thank you for buying us tickets to go and see the Mighty Ducks play ice hockey. Unfortunately, due to being in a completely different country and time zone to where the Mighty Ducks are playing we have so far been unable to attend a game. We hope you don’t mind that we decided to spend the money on a night out at Coco Bongos, here in Mexico instead. We were meant to fly back to America today but due mostly to us being quite lazy, ...

Dear Val and Tony Thank you for kindly buying us a Queenstown Adventure as part of our wedding gift. The idea of this was to use it on one of the many high adrenaline activities on offer when we were in Queenstown, supposedly the adventure capital of the world. Because most of these involved jumping off something very high with nothing to stop us splattering on the very hard floor except a glorified elastic band, we decided wisely that we were not brave enough t...

Dear The Austins Since we have been in Mexico, we have been experiencing severe electrical malfunctions to speakers, cameras, laptops and tablets. You name it, nothing is working like it should be. I wonder if it is some old Mayan curse, or maybe we have just been lucky up until now. To this extent, I am writing this blog on Donna's laptop, which has a broken Wi-Fi connection so I have no idea when I will be able to upload this onto the Internet. You may not be ...