The Most Recent Update..

Good Evening,

Our first stop, Sri Lanka.. We will be staying away from the North and North East, due to the issues with the Tamil Tigers but we are hoping to cover as much of the Sri Lanka as possible in just under 3 weeks that we will be staying for before we fly to Travandum, South India.

So every thing's coming along nicely, believe it or not we finish work in just 9 Weeks time and I couldn't be happier! I have worked since I was 12 with my family business and never taken anytime out..not even when I was in school. It's my turn now to enjoy a year off and well deserved it is (Even if I do say so myself!).

The pile of travel equipment is slowly getting bigger and our progress with travel plans are coming along swimmingly, most recently we booked a hostel with Hostelworld.com for when we arrive in Sri Lanks...very cheap site and they have a fantastic reputation to go with it. We land in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 2nd April 2010 in the early hours of the morning after flying for nearly 24 hours including our stop in Doha, Qatar.

First of all though we officially finish our main jobs on the 5th March 2010 and then leave on the 8th March 2010 to travel around the UK saying Goodbye to our nearest and dearest! For anyone that ever fancies travelling around the UK a great tip is to book well in advance. A great company to use is The Mega Bus if you book far enough ahead (3 months or so) you can even find free tickets to places! Daniel and I have managed to find some free seats on our journey from Gloucester to London, Victoria! Worth a look :)

Anyway I better check my Ebay sales for Party Animal and then have a nice relaxing bath while I imagine how my first days in Sri Lanka's going to be! I can't stop dreaming.....

Not long Now!

Hi Everyone,

So sorry I have been super slack at staying on top of the blog, Christmas work has been consuming all my free time. I have, however managed to get some time for Travel research this week and we have now booked our flights from Sri Lanka to India (Travandrum) and that's another thing paid for. The only very scary thing is we have only 2 months of pay slips left and no way near the money we were hoping for. This flies right over Daniels head and he says "It'll be fine" I however am a bit more sceptical. We will be living life on the cheap that's for sure.

I can't wait to fly away on the plane, it's got to the point where I fantasize about landing in a beautiful new country every night in my dreams and the hustle and bustle of a chaotic city and the soothing waves lapping up against the shore of some idyllic getaway..... Not long now!

I'm counting down the days!

:)

All paid up.....Brighton and to great friends!

Hellooooooo!

I know it's been ages! I have soooo much news for you. First of all I'll tell you about Mine and Daniels trip to Brighton. What a fantastic place, we went down to stay with Chris, Ellie and Steve and what a great catch up we had. My 23rd birthday was on the 27th October and I got spoilt rotten by all of them, I haven't had so much fuss made of me for years and although "we" always insist we don't want anyone to go out of their way, it was so nice to feel so special and I'm really greatful to them all for that.

Ellie and I got some quality girl-time together which mainly consisted of having a right good slagging session, which deffinately needs venting once in a while so we keep our sanity. Ellie is a really great friend and we get on better than I could of ever imagined! We talked about all sorts and of course the possibility that moving to Canada after the world trip could be on the plate....which suits me just fine! We made amazing muffins and they tasted so great and of course drank possibly the best MARGHERITAS ever created!

Since then Daniel and I came back home and back to work and are working VERY hard! The Ebay shop has really taken off and our websites really started to pick up which means, fingers crossed, I'll have a job to come back to when we get back from our travels!

*BIG NEWS* We paid off the full balance of the flights and are now building up our savings fund! So far we've paid £6000 and we just have our spending money to go! We must take as much overtime as possible! With just 145 days and counting we have lots of Visas, Medication and Equipment still to pay for, so we need to really push ourselves!

I think that's pretty much everything for now! I am ready to leave this town........

Take it easy x

24 weeks until we go!

Hi Everyone,

Feels like I haven't wrote for ages, I've been so busy with both works, I'm still working very hard at the Post Office especially with the run up to Christmas...believe it or not if you want to send your mail by surface mail To USA or Canada you've missed it!! Can't believe every things coming around so fast! Also the threat of strikes is a nightmare!

Also Party Animal Online is still doing well and is becoming increasingly challenging to juggle along side my other job. We have just set up an online ebay shop is very much like our other online shop with similar prices but just not as many products listed at the moment.

Less of work, Travelling! 171 DAYS....25 WEEKS!!! I can't wait, we have bought a world map and put all our pins in the places we've already been so it's really interesting to see who's done what already! Also we're paying off even more off our flights at the end of this week which is awesome news AND Daniel got over-time this week so extra money in the pot!

Sorry about this really shitty unorganized blog, it's rushed as Daniels just got back from doing the week shop so I need to go and help him unpack it all!

I will tell you more soon :) x

Channel 4 for the boys!

Amazing Daniel and Chris had a great time down in London working in Damien Hirsts Exhibition...so so proud. I went and bought 10 papers the next day and searched out the links of them...I'm so sad!

This is the video of them on Channel Four! They're the twins!

Also Daniel and I had a fantastic time in Dublin, we walked miles and drank as much as we could at £6 a pint so you can imagine our money didn't go very far! It was nice to get away though and have that taster of us travelling together for the first time.

181 DAYS untill we go...26 WEEKS!

We are moving back into dads at the end of this weekend so that's going to be nice to be warm and have the cats around us and before we know it we'll be in March!

Take care everyone!

x

I bet you wished you had a pet peacock!

Hi All,

There's has been a new addition to our roof garden...yes a Peacock of all things (Even though I thought they lived in lavish areas of big green fields of rich country manors) Well apparently they live in little St.Annes as well. These are pictures taken of my grans roof top garden....you can imagine what my cats must of thought. Although I think even for them, catching and eating a bird of that size is far much to like "HARD WORK" instead staring uneasily at it seemed to please them enough!

Other news is we're going on a good old last minute dash to Dublin next weekend! Can't wait, I've never been but I do hope it's like the stereotypical image I imagine of Irish bands playing live in the corner of some little over-crowded bars while everyone merrily dances around drinking Guinness and Jameson's....that would be awesome...I would also like it very much if only one person says "Top of the morning to ya". Daniel and I are booked in a little place just walking distance from Temple bar and can't wait to see something other than St.Annes....here's hoping!

Hope your all great! I know I am!

Halloween

Hi Guys!

Hope everyone's good, I'm shattered I worked a 14 hour shift yesterday at Party Animal in hope to get some of the Halloween fancy dress and decorations on the Internet and ready to go and still feel like I have barely touched the never-ending supply that Party Animal offers!

I've got to say I love Halloween though, not only is it around my Birthday but as a kid I always use to have Halloween parties, which were always great fun and of course having a party shop in the family meant that I had my pick of the spooky decorations on offer!

This Halloween however I am going to Brighton to see a couple of my favourite people Ellie and Chris and of course Daniel and Chrissfer have got the Damien Hirst exhibition to attend and take part in so it should be an extra special birthday and Halloween.

I wonder what it will be like spending Halloween in a hot country when we're travelling next year? At that point in our trip we will be in Indonesia possibly on some little islands just off the cost of Bali.... Talking about ravelling there's 209 DAYS TO GO! It's really sneaking up fast now! Woooooo culture here we come!

Finished Tattoo!

Amazing I've had my tattoo finally finished and I think it's incredible (even if I do say so myself) I'm going to wait until it's fully healed before I put any pictures up, so hold tight!

Travelling news..... 216 Days until we're on our merry way and I can't wait. We went to the Doctors the other day about the jabs and we've managed to get our Malaria tablets free on the NHS which is unexpected and will save us around £700 for the year! We have our Hepatitis jab in September and not sure about the others yet. All this brings the trip so much closer it feels less like a dream and more of reality now :)

Mum's coming to stay this weekend so looking forward to seeing her millions, she's not seen my new tattoo yet so really looking forward to seeing what she thinks of it. Also I'm still working hard on the Party Animal Site but I have to say things do seem a little quiet at the minute. We've been having some problems with the online checkout and are having to get online customers to pay over the phone which is a bit of a nightmare but if all goes well Mum's going to start writing a completely new site which will be great.

Take care everyone :)

Morning..

Morning,

Another great weekend. On Friday Daniel and I had a quiet night in and watched a film called Powder Blue, surprisingly very good and worth a watch. On Saturday we walked to Lytham and sat outside the Queens on the green with some cold beers and some good friends, we went back to Amanda's and Adams for a little BBQ which was bloody lovely although I haven't stopped being sick since.lol. I don't blame the cooking I do however think I've come down with a bit of a stomach bug...Ah welll!

Totally forgot to mention this great news! Daniel and Chris are going to be working along side Damien Hirst. Yeah that's right DAMIEN HIRST! So proud of them boys, they'll be in their element! Got to show you this picture of them together!

Anyway short but sweet, I have got to get to work. I'll try and update you a bit more next time.

Take it easy. x