alright there folks, i'm putting a postcard on here because the website has stuffed up, rubbish hey. anyway hopefully it's getting sorted out. we're now in the cook islands (we decided no to go to fiji due to the military coup by bananaman or something), we we've been here for about 5 days with another week left (oh, what a life). we finished nz off in style, nic did managed to do another skydive (and not to be left out i did another, that's 3 now)/ we spent a few days in rotarua, this is the volcanic area, really nice but smells like rotten eggs (you do get used to it, in fact it smelt very similar to my bedroom when i was a teenager?!!). Rotarua is really nice, we went to a couple of cultural mauri shows (one of which we didn't have tickets too, so to get in i volounteered to be the cheif of the trikbe, so not only did we not have tickets but we got the best seats in the house, clever hey). Aukland was nice but no too much to report now. anyway, we're in the cook islands for 12 days (got a week left), so far we've seen an old man climb a cocunut tree (and he showed us how to make fire, a bit random but only cost 3 quid), tonight we're off to another cultural show, in fact we've got it all planned now. not too long and well be in america, 2 days in LA, 4 days in Vegas (in fact chrimbo in vegas can't wait), then a week in NY (nic can't wait to get her "I love NY" t.shirt). anyway i think that's it, should be going diving soon (once the weather gets better, currently a bit cloudy but nicmanaged to get burned pretty well). hope everyone is great. see you soon matt and nic p.s. curry when we get back , time and date to be confirmed but i think it's gonna be 6.30 in hardys well on the 13th for a curry at around 8pm. nothing like forward planning.