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I agree MB!! All my nieces live in a non conversation world now. If they want to chat they text me or email me and they want me to join up facebook so I can keep up with what they are doing. When I ring them they are shocked and want to know if everything is okay. To which I reply YES I just wanted to here your voice!! I am such a funny old thing!!

Originally Posted By: SantaCruz Any recommendations in terms of agents? Cheers. I have a fab agent here in Aus. We have tried booking through the internet ourselves but our agent gets us much better prices and most importantly she gets us the fantastic connecting flight from Narita to Chitose. Also when we get there we don't have to worry about anything as everything is taken care off. She ROCKS!!

SC we are currently booking our trip for 2010. We have quotes from all the places we wanted to stay and now we just have to chose one. I believe in Aus you can book pretty much all year around and usually (pre recession times) the earlier the better.

Originally Posted By: JA Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! WHAT THE ?????????????????????

VERY NICE SV, that is what this topic is about HAPPINESS & GOOD NEWS. Good luck to everyone with their upcoming bundles of joy. Here are some photo's of my proud day. HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY!!

Originally Posted By: snowhuntress I thought I would start a Happy Thread - With all the doom and gloom maybe we can all share some happy stories with each other. Well Saturday week my much loved niece gets married to the most gorgeous wonderful guy. I am so excited. It is a beach wedding with a carnival theme. As I think of the moment I am already in tears so can you imagine what I am going to be like on the day. Valium WILL be on the cards. Well the big day has been and gone and it was TRULY SPECTACULAR. I couldn't have asked for everything to have gone better. She

I to am on the fitness and diet regime AGAIN!!! I got myself a little note book and I started writing in the distances I ran and the time. I also write down EVERYTHING I eat and the calories. It was amazing the first few days little snacks I would eat and had forgotten about until I wrote down the next snack WHOOPS!! Keep at it TheOrange.

Thanks again Mike once again AWESOME !! Stay safe on your travels. We need you again next year

I thought I would start a Happy Thread - With all the doom and gloom maybe we can all share some happy stories with each other. Well Saturday week my much loved niece gets married to the most gorgeous wonderful guy. I am so excited. It is a beach wedding with a carnival theme. As I think of the moment I am already in tears so can you imagine what I am going to be like on the day. Valium WILL be on the cards.

HELLO isn't what she is doing a form of child abuse??????? Those kids should be taken off her for their own good. Funny how many overweight people have a thyroid problem (sorry to all the geniune thyroid problem suffers) DAH!!!!! Do you thinkg your friggin obese weight has anything to do with the crap that you are shovelling down your throat. GET A LIFE!!!!! I to was way over weight 166cm 80kgs. I lost 35kg's and you know what my weight gain was purely from eating CRAP!!! This poor girl is 24 years old someone needs to get her some HELP! DON'T GET ME STARTED!!!!!

Originally Posted By: Go Native Tubby I sort of agree with you about the media beat up but I guess it's best to err on the cautious side with these things. SARS was a ridiculous beat up though. It killed less than 1000 people worldwide! In the US alone over 1000 people die each week from the regular flu. Still one of these days a really bad one could come along, is the swine flu one of these? We'll have to wait and see I guess. I have to agree, I wonder if the media aren't causing a lot of the frenzy. Two years we had a flu that was highly contagious and they were warning people not to

Oh no please don't think I was mocking him, now I feel really bad I remember this year when we were coming I keep asking as many currency traders as I knew if there was going to be an improvement in the yen. I should have perhaps done some trading rather than been so anxious to get the best exchange for my trip.

Okay if we compare this to the Equine Influenza that the Australian quarantined managed to let out 2 years ago things don't look good! I saw it first hand and believe me it did not get weaker as it spread. Some horses showed very little symptoms while others died. All 5 of my horses got it and I fought for 3 weeks to keep them alive, losing one. We were told that it was transmitted through poor bio security. CRAP it was out of control and they were having HUGE problems containing it. All horse events were stopped and movement of horses was completely illegal yet horses were still gett

Yes please if anyone can also let me know when the yen is going to improve or decline I would also be very interested!!!! Sorry BS did not mean to mean!

Weather has gone a little mental here in Oz 31oC Sunday on the Gold Coast - Snow in the ski fields in Melbourne and tonight on the Coast it is currently 10oC and we have the heater on Brrrrrrr!!!

Last night when I went to bed there was an outbreak in Mexico of about 50 people, This morning on the news there confirmed cases the US, Europe, obviously Mexico and New Zealand and number of deaths. It seems to have really spread quite quickly. Is this media driven hysteria?? At least it might take everyones mind off the recession for awhile!! Even so it is a very scary situation.

Originally Posted By: Mantas It's not a day for celebration and flag waving, it's a day of rememberence and gratitute. I have to agree Mantas. We go to the dawn services and to the parades and it has NOTHING to do with patriotism. It is my way of thanking those brave diggers for what they did. Every year I shed tears thinking about what they went through, the friends they lost and the terrible things they would have seen at such a young age. My dad was in the navy by the age 14 and has some unbelievable stories. A lot of my relations where war hero's and one of them even had a movi

Here here MB. I own my own business and HATE when people drag themselves in off their sick bed to get a few things, (that surely could wait until there better!!) coughing and sneezing all over you. Yeah thanks for that if I get sick who then comes in to look after my business. I like the idea of the face masks or if you are sick STAY HOME!!! Hey MB where did you get your Cherry Blossom Soap?? I am a bit anal about not touching escalator hand rails and shopping cart handles.

Daniel is one very lucky boy!

OUTSTANDING - Thank you for taking the time to share your daily adventures in words and FABULOUS PHOTO'S and keeping us up to date with your reports. I read them everyday. We are just starting to plan our trip for next year so your reports will once again be followed daily. Enjoy your off time over the summer period. BY THE WAY LOVING THE YOUTEI PHOTO'S MIKEPOW

I am glad they found Scott's body as it will give closure to the family. It is a very sad situation, a place that brings happiness to so many people will now have so many sad feelings for his family and friends.

Still overcast and wet. I AM OVER IT!!!! We are not used tothis sort of weather on the Gold Coast. Anyho 4 Day Long weekend coming up so if it is still wet it will mean DVD's, Good Friends, Alcohol and Guitar Hero Challenge for 4 days.

What the?????????

Thanks for sharing VN Your hotel room suspiciously looks like ours Niseko Park ??

Some of the lifts don't have bars so what is the difference with a lift that doesn't have a bar to one that does and not pulling it down.