Hi Everyone! Emma here, we apologise for our lack of journal entries and photos but you have to remember we are poor travellers and have to save our bahts! I've tried a few times recently to put more photos on but its near impossible! last time i spent about 2 hours and failed miserably, and ive just tried now and both me and helen have been electrocuted - no joke!! so hopefully thats a reasonable excuse! maybe in Oz it will be easier, were hopefully going to stay with some of eleanors family which we are all buzzing about! itll be like luxury compared to the bamboo love shacks were in now! not that im dissing the love shacks, especially at 2 pounds 40 a night, bargain! except we do have a couple of room mates like gordon the ghekko and the huuuuuge cockroach that crawled out of my bag yesterday aargh! but theyre all friendly:)

Well i hope all is fine and dandy in richmond! were on an island called ko lanta at the moment, on the west side of thailand..weve just been lazing about really after all our travelling - we had to do a visa run (where you cross the border to renew your visa) before we came here and it was the worst trip ever! i wont bore you with details, but we were definitely glad to get here! our love shacks were a lucky find (me and melon won the beach bargain hunt yay!) as they are part of a nice resort with a swimming pool and sunloungers bonus!! and right on the beach!

Well i need to tell you all something exciting otherwise this message is a complete let down! ooh we went elephant trekking the other day which was class! went for a little trek through the jungle el and nat on the mama elephant and melon and me on the papa - his name when we asked sounded like something rude so we called him papa nelson (and mama nellie)! we got to feed them bananas as well - weve got photos so you might even see if we ever manage to put them on! then we crossed a river and all got sprayed with water from the elephants trunks!!

We had a lovely night last night for our one month anniversary celebration! went to Mr Wees pizza place (yep still enjoying real thai cuisine!) and then to a beach bar for some beaut cocktails!

Well we'd like to hear any exciting goss from richmond so keep us updated! we do miss the place, we were all saying last night how mint it would be if richmond was here! bet you'd all love it too!

Bye bye for now!

Love, hugs and sunshine from us all!:) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

P.S. a special hello to the Caven Cave!! mum dad sarah sooty (and ads if you're there, which i think you are tonight!) miss you!x x and Clairey if you read this!x x