Melanie here. I am writing just before bedtime here and at home it's just now after 8 in the morning. Well it looks like Manuel will finally leave the hospital tomorrow. He's feeling much better, but still not 100%. The doc says it will probably take a few days. It should be interesting going back out into society after being in here for 3 days. I feel like I've been in a fishbowl. The only time I've left is to get food (Starbucks-if you can imagine that, as we'v...

Hello again everyone. I know it's been a long time since I've written but things have been a little crazy lately. I've been at the hospital with Manuel for the last 2 days. He contracted some sort of virus from the food here. The doctors initially suspected malaria but have ruled that out and said that it's something gastrointestinal. He's been hooked up to an IV since we checked in yesterday afternoon. We will be staying tonight as well and if all goes as expe...

Well we made it to Thailand last night after an 8 1/2 hour plane ride. It was very turbulent. I nearly killed myself trying to use the toilet at the back of the plane. We arrived on Chinese New Year and needless to say it was very busy. We had quite a hard time getting accomodations for the night. We ended up finding a room and will probably keep it for another night. We are planning on taking a tour to some Buddhist temples and the "floating market". I can't bel...

Ok, I\'ve got about 5 minutes before we board our flight to Bangkok. We decided to leave early and go to Southeast Asia for 3 weeks then to Taiwan for 2 weeks for (hopefully) some more surfing. We had a miserable time in Australia. I\'ll explain later, but we are both alive and well. Hey Mom. I haven\'t heard from you in a while. Kim, any recommendations for Thailand? What did you do there? Goodbye Australia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I never thought I'd say this but I don't really like Australia. We left Crescent Head 2 days ago and we haven't surfed since. The main reason for our trip to Australia was to get waves. The waves aren't good, it's crowded, touristy, and hot (about 31degrees Celsius sp??) We've decided to put in a request to go to Thailand early in the hopes of going to Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia then trying to extend our stay in Taiwan, which was originally only a stopover ...