dudes! thanks for all your messages! we are having a wicked time still! no fall outs, and we still have our big backpacks ....touch wood! we left rio on friday, and arrived in porto seguro on saturday, supposed to take 18 british hours, but means 23 brazilian hours!!!! but wasn't actually that bad, we met 3 israelies who we are living with in arrailal dájuda....also hayley picked up a ozzy!! ha ha ha! in all seriousness he is our bag man! most excellent dude! he is our security guard and our tour guide! speaks no portugese and his english is just as bad!! ha ha ha!!! we will be off to salvador 2moro for lots of surfing cowabunga! at this moment me and hayley are cracking up beause thee ozzy called john o! is on a health diet....so is sat eating a pastry and drinking a beer! such an ozzy! went to beach yesterday hayley is competing for the most whitest person in Brazil! she is a bit of an oddity for the brazilians! getting to arrailal dájuda was a mission in itself...we had the help of all the town to get us 6 walking suitcases to the ferry! which is no red funnel! will try and get photos online soon guys, but me and hayley are trying to decifer the brazilian code of computers...take care now cio amigos! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx