Mum Hi Shane, Merry Christmas!!!!!!! Just a quick note to wish you a very merry christmas and to let you know we are missing you. Hope we haven't b*****ed up your site as I think I have added a journal entry somewhere! Couldn't get it to work before as they seem to have changed the site, so Kev had a play, seemed I could add an entry, when I came here to see if it had worked, there was a box to add my own message that I didn't have before? Oh well, least you should see one of them. Well we are waiting for Nigel at the moment as he gets upset if we don't, but its getting late so he had better hurry up. Well, better go an check the turkey, you take care and look forward to seeing you soon. Lots of love from Mum & Dad

Shane Hello all, Well im in mexico now, just been to Tijuana was a f***ing dump, never seen such a crap hole!! We just ,ade our way out to coast a little place called Rosarita seems quite nice on first impressions, again a dump but not as bad. Had a nasty shock in Tijuana, we got searched by the police, would be ok anywhere else but the Mexican police are as curruipt as they come, poooohh my pants. We will be here for another 2 days then gonna move on, but not sure where. will try and get some photos on soon but it seems that all the pcs here in mexico are crap. Shane

Shane Hello all, Well wehat can i say i am now in santa cruz just noirth of mexico. Will be leaving here tomorrow, only arrived today mind. is a nice place kinda reminds me of weymouth. Is a strange hostel you have to be out dureing the day, they wont allow you to say in the rooms, wierd. Did i telkl you that my guitar got broke on the fight over to US, f***ing t*** didnt even give me anything for it,k said that it was my, fault!!! asss holes, so i guess that i will send the bag home soon seems little point carryinjg the bag arround when i dont need it. Any way gottqa go no maney left. shane

Kathryn Hello you, I hope that the rain has stopped now I looked at the weather forecast for Whistler today and it says its about 4C which is cold, apparently we are set for a very cold December and there is a chance we may get snow for christmas yippe!!!! I have looked into other things we can do in Vegas and we could go on a night helicopter flight over Las Vegas which I quite like the sound of as I have always wanted to go up in a helicopter - let me know what you think and I can book and pay for it. There is also a free trip to Laughlin which is just up the Colardo river and where gold was first found, how do you fancy doing that one as well? Well best get back to work, let me know what you think about those things and I can book them up. Speak to you soon, call my home phone next time if you want to save a bit of money. Kathryn

Shane Well glad that you had got it sorted, i guessed it was a good idea to phone up make sure you were all alive :-). Good to hear that you have upgraded the internet shoyuld be good for my gameing when i get back. Feeling a bit fat here at the moment, just had the biggest roast dinner that i have ever had in my life, we got bored of Macdonalnd and other take away s*** so we cooked up a fat roast and my guts are aching from all that i have eaten. Well what can i say, havent done alot since being here, not much to do really although it is a really nice place to be, seem to be watching loads and loads of films here. Havent botherd to go out here as everyone will be going skiing or boarding tomorrow morning. I wont be going however as ive got to start looking after the penny and all that s***. Can't belive the weather there seems really odd that it is so warm, are you not in a for a real cold snap, i thought that i heard some where that its going to take a big turn for the cold soon? Any way take care shane

Mum Well finally hello again! We are back on line again. I sort of messed up really. The problem was that Kev rang to see when they were going to upgrade our connection to 2mg like they promised, but they turned round and said that we had to sign up for another 12 months. Well, for some reason I got really narked. The market for adsl/broadband is really competative at the moment and given that there was no additional charge incurred for them to upgrade, there was no reason to demand another 12 mnth commitment and at the same price. So I told Kev not to sign up, leave it as it was and I would look at finding an alternative supplier. Well, somewhere things got confused and he disconnected. What they didn't tell us was that it would take BT a further 7 days to decommision the adsl connection and that no other provider could do anything till then. So that lost us a week. Then tiscalli quote 7-10 days, and guess what, it took the full 10 days before the connection, hardware and software were in place. Giving a total of 2 weeks. To cap it all, we could have just migrated, same as number portability where we would only have lost connection for about 2 days. Never mind, will know for next time. I have also just transferred £125.00 to your account to cover my half of the connection since you left. Only managed to do that as I have signed up to internet banking as I can never get to a bank when it's open. It may take a couple of days before you see the transfer amount though. It is an amazing fiddle really when you think about it, it will go out of my account almost immediately,then become invisible for a couple of days, just think how much money there must be in so called limbo land, someone must be making a packet on that little lot! Any how, I am really sorry to have missed your call the other day and even more sorry for not having been able to post a message and check yours. I heard that you were not well, couldn't have been much fun, bronchitis is nasty and it can deteriorate quite quickly to pnumonia, so be careful even if you think you are over it, especially if it's cold. Talking about cold, we have just had one of the warmest Octobers and even now in November, it is wet and windy, but really quite mild, haven't even got the heating on. Quick update on things here.......... not much to say really, in fact can't think of anything of any real interest! Same old, same old. I think we really are turning into boring old farts! Well suppose I had better go as it only costs you money to read this. Take care, love Mum.

Shane Hello you, Well, what can i say the year is f***ing flying and the closer we get to the end the quicker it seems to go. As for the snow well yeah, we could be the luckest people on earth, you know i said that we have arrived to early, well they are opening the season early because of the huge ammount of snow that has fallen, LUCKY LUCKY BOYS, hey! Well as for the sun we have normal days here, that place that you are on about is further north, i think. We are really on the border here of north america. I think that this is the nicest opklace that io have been so far cant beleave how rich you have to be to live here. Seems that the average price for a house is about 1.5million dollors, guess that well have to leave that out. Bryony is out this week, scott seems quite excited about that, still seems quite a while till your out. Will be all over really by then, Not that happy at the idea of having to go home and live a normal boring life though. Dont know if i told you, but Mums has arranged to get a new internet connection so that will be good when i get back so that when i build my PC i will have a good connection, OH yeha mum that means that you may need a new place to put my old PC. i guess that Kev would be happy to have it in his room, no doubt. You would laugh, every where i go roiund here there are warning about f***ing big grizzly bears, they say that i should stand there and fight it if i see one , not run play dead ir anything, FIGHT IT, yeah right, ill f***ing leg it if i see one, poooooo my pants. Had to just buy a coat its f***ing frezzing here, quite a nice one a cream Helly Hanson one, was the cheepest that i could find. Wierd about that Harry Potter, it realleased the 4th over here seems that they get everything comes out earlier here, really looking forward to watching that, was bloody great book. any way I guess that ill speak to you later, have brought a phone card instead of a SIM for my mobile so ill phone you. Shane

Kathryn Hey you, How's Canada any sign of some snow?? It seems weird knowing that you are in Canada it seems like this is the final country apart from America and then you will be home, I can't believe how quickly the year has flown by in no time at all you will be home blimely how time must have flown by because you have been having fun. Well whats been happening hear, as you know Seona left last week and I am now quite busy will hopefully get an answer on my pay rise by the end of this week, am looking forward to that. Have booked my tickets to go and see Harry Potter on the 18 November am going with Naomi and Kelly so that should be good. Are you going to go to that place in Canada where it doesn't get dark I can't remember what the place is called but it was in that film that we watched "Insomnia" with Robin Williams? Well best get back to work. Talk to you soon. Love you loads Kathryn

Shane Hello all, well like i said Hawii went really quick and im in Canada now. I landed yesterday and have made my way up to Whistler today, we have 3 weeks here in Canada so guess will get a few things in. Is a hell of a lot colder here really nice actaully to be in a simular climate to home. Seems really nice here but a bit of a millionaire haven lots of rich people about. Seems that time is speeding upi now the weeks seem like days and the months weeks, but hey, cant complain. Speak to you later Shane

Shane Yeah the cough is pissing me off now, but it feals like its getting better, so thats good. Just brought a new book the second one to Ergon, Eldest, because no shop in either here or Figi seems to have to next one in the series i was reading by fiest, seems really good, i guess that i will have plenty of time to read it down the beach. We went to the north shore today the waves are huge, this is the place where alll of the bigest waves in the world are!! We going to the north shore again on the 27th so that we can watch a pro surf comp should be good. Tomorrow were are pf to look round Pearl harbour that should be good! look at the site where the japs bombed in WII. After that we are on the bears, AGAIN!!! found a place where we can get a drink for 1 dollor all night should be messy, but cheap. Seems that the time is just going so quick now, the week in Figi passed before i realised, will have to make the best of here. Will try to put the Figi pics on sometime this week,l shouldn't takecos i aint got that many. anyway better go cya laters all. SHANE

Kathryn Glad to hear that you are ok, well sort of. I think it is probably the change in temparature that is causing problems for you and perhaps you are not fully over your bronchitus. So what was Figi like? Did you take any pictures? Whats Hawaii like then? Is it as nice as it seems? Well things here are much the same I went to see the Backstreet Boys on Thursday they were really good they mixed a lot of old stuff with there new stuff which was good. Still waiting to hear on the pay rise, Seona leaves on Friday and is not really doing a great deal of work so it is almost like she has left already. Call me if you get a chance and its not too expensive. Hope you feel a little better soon. Love you loads. Kathryn

Shane Hello , Well i just got out of figi, couldn't use the net or the phone all the way through Figi they wanted a small fortune for it $15 for 3 min phone call crazy. So i am in Hawii at the moment for the next 7 days then im going to be in Canada. Im feelingreally s***ty at the moment have gotareal nasty cold guess that has to do with no sleep last night. Not sure what to do about the tickets for new years dont book anything until we sure whats going to happen. so whats happennig there anything? soeak to you later shane

Kathryn Hello, I hope you are enjoying Figi and that you are topping up your tan whilst relaxing on the beaches. I got the DVD and Video from your Mum and Dad the other day, I love that top its so you!!! You look really frightened whilst they are telling you what to do on Nevis, I'm not surprised though it looks horrible. The skydiving looks great fun I might have to do that sometime in the future. I emailed the nightclub in Las Vegas and they say that ticktes will go on sale either next week or the week after so will keep my eye out on them. I presume that I am buying 4, is this right? Best get back to work speak to you soon. Love you loads Kathryn

Shane hmmm should have read that befoe posting it

Shane Hello all, Hope that your Anerversary went well, and the meal was nice. Whos in charge at the Bridge now has Adie still got it or did he sell t in the end? Well we only have 5 days left in Newzealand. Then were off to Figi, but dan will be on his way home hes ran out of money now. Bit bizzare, really seem that we have been travelling for ages, sort of a way of life now. Can't really imagine having to been in one place longer that a week, guess its gonna hit dan quite hard having to work and everthing, me too but not for a while yet :-). Really looking forward to getting to Fiigi its a bit hectic here loads of extreme stuff to do, kinda looking forward to laying on the beech reading and doing nothing. Thats if the monsons have passed they have had quite a few recentlly. I didn't tell you that i managed to pick up Broncitus, got some anti biotics for it at the moment, its a right pain in the arse, think i remember Dad having ages ago, cont stop coughing, drived me mad. other that that not to much going on here. so cath ya later shane