THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JESS, DAN & AMY

rainy scotland

jess_dan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Dear all,

Just a little note to let you know of our happenings…

Tash left us today, she is travelling with a Canadian friend for 10 days and then going home to work and for Christmas and will head back to Europe in febuary..so we will catch up with her then.

The season has died fairly quickly..all of a sudden the caravan park is empty, all English and Scottish holidays are over so most of the visitors are weekend stays or the retired in their permanent vans. They are all really friendly, love a chat and most have a drink or two at the bar.

Amy and tash had an awesome Saturday night..while the rest of us worked, they went into town and saw a ACDC tribute band, amy said it was a great nite..and she has made a new record for herself..she originally was the first staff member to throw up in the toilets whilst cleaning them, she is also now the first staff member to throw up in a cabin toilet whilst cleaning..good effort amy..of course none of this sickness was alcohol induced.

On September 15^th we -me, dan amy and mel (dans sister) will be making a trip around Scotland. it’s a 5day bus tour with Mac backpackers (check out the website it’s the 5day highland fling tour). It should be an awesome trip and a perfect way to finish Scotland for amy before she goes to denmark and then home.

Although I studies languages at home, I made a right fool of myself on Sunday night in the bar..a lovely gentlman said “grazias” (thank you in Spanish), and I dead seriously looked at him and said “sorry I don’t speak French”…fool. But of course everyone else at the bar thought it was hilarious.

Today dan and I had the day off and we visited Dundee, an hour by train from pitlochry. Dundee is a little rough, but it has a great shopping centre, had a wonderful afternoon wandering the shops..maybe me more then dan, lol. But they also had my favourite shop lush, so were going to smell beautiful.

Not much else out of the ordinary, dan still playing funny buggers with the dryers, tying all of amys undies together in a chain…good one. Back to work tomorrow..I think im on pool in the arvo and dan is working with eddie outside.

Hope all is well at home and the weather starts warming up soon..while the weather here is getting colder already.

Love to all,

Love jess xo

PHOTOS!!!

jess_dan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:03:00 GMT

dear all,

all is fine in scotland, another week of birdman, karaoke, vodka, toilet cleaning, bar, cleaning poopy drains and clearing out the dog poo bins..dans favourite job.

there are new photos of all our activities at faskally.

love to all

love always, jess xoxo and dan and amy

pitlochry

jess_dan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:00 GMT

dear all,

the weather is beautiful, the sun is shining, icecreams and suncream are selling out, the pool is full, people are complaining about the heat, heatstroke..the top tempreture yesterday was...25 celsius!! thats scottish summer for you. it is beautiful though.

all is well, the park is totally booked so around 1500 people were there for the weekend, even the fire trucks were there when some retard tried to start a fire by putting a tube on their gas bottle and adding a flame...fool.nearly burnt the whole tent field down.

toilets are disgusting as always, last week one was so blocked that water and brown muck were overflowing over the toilet all over the floor.....eeeeeewwwww.

hit jackpot in a caravan and found easily a weeks supply of icecream and oven chips!yay..they even left me a magnum!

dan is fine, strimming (whipper snipping) and keeping everyone in line on night patrol.

amy is the shop girl, she loves little kids spending there 2 dollars on sweeties..its really annoying having one and two pennies, scotland should get with the times and just rounf up the ones and twos like aus! i had a little boy try and buy two frisbees with a piece of foil yesterday..hasnt quiet understood the money yet..foil is shiny like money though.

love to all.

love jess

Faskally part 2...

jess_dan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:36:00 GMT

Dear all,

I cant write about all the fantastic places weve been for the last 2 weeks because we havnt been anywhere, so this entry is going to be slightly more boring then any previous.

Our stove got smashed last night..gene from new Zealand opened up his cupboard which is above the stove and a bottle of oil fell from it and dropped onto the glass on top and but a hole in the glass, and because all the wires are exposed and theres bits of glass everywhere we cant use it anymore…and because we all eat a lot of pasta, soups, curries anything easy and quick to cook, were going to be a little stuck this week..but we still have a microwave!hooray. Damn new Zealanders.

This morning I was in the café. At night theres the bar from 6pm-11.30ish, meals are served from 6pm-9pm, and then the café is open from 10am-2pm. I was in the café by myself which means I was waitress, chef and cleaner all in one. Luckily it wasn’t too buzy, I made bacon rolls, hamburgers and cups of tea. Today (Wednesday) I have the afternoon off because im in the bar tonight from 6-11.30ish depending on how quick me and amy can boot people out of the bar and then clean up. The bar is fun, a few tips, strangely dan gets the most tips out of everyone..but theyre all from old men..strange..dan must be winking at them..susan from Newcastle doubts his sexuality. Today dan was on AM from 9am-1pm, I think he was concreting and then an hour for lunch and back concreting from 2-5pm. Dans other jobs include whipper snippering, moving vans, rubbish etc. We all do toilets, bar and cleaning caravans. Amy and I do pool attending and shop more then dan.

The shop has the hugest lolly chocolate section ever..its really bad because staff get 10percent off and the selection is huge so it would be rude to not try them all! The little kids at the park love the shop, they come in with pocket money and spend it all on lollies, toy guns and icy poles. Not that the weather is that hot, I would liken a Scottish summer to an australian autumn coming into winter.but with a lot more rain. The forecast for the weekend is rain and 16 today and more torrential rain and 15 tomorrow..lovely. Its beautiful when the sun is out, but when its not it can get a little chilly.

Pitlochry is near an army base, so during the day at least 5 fighter jets scream overhead..everyday, and they’re not just little flecks in the sky, theyre so low we can see details. Have also seen helicopters and a huge carrier plane. Dan loves it.

We have our own rooms..mine and dans is a nice lilac colour, it use to grannys room (the business and park have been family owned for generations and they only just moved out of the park to a house down the road, but granny dies) anyway, granny was going blind so above the bed is a light, not just any light though, its an outdoor strength light, its blinding and feels like im getting a suntan just sitting under it, so it kinda works like a heat lamp!thanks granny. Our room has its own sink and mirror, and the toilet and shower are just down the hallway.

Im getting good at cleaning toilets too, there are three toilet blocks, the biggest is in the tent field with around 20 toilets and 6 showers, the scrubbing part isn’t fun but theres a hose to wash down the floors and showers and the first time I think I got more water on myself then the floor, at least it was clean water, well some of it was I duck squirted the urinals and then washed them out with the hose but didn’t consider the shape of the urinal and the water swilled around and came straight back at me…lovely.

Cleaning cabins isn’t too bad, as long as you can find the cabin, I wondered the park looking for cabin 9. When I finally asked someone they turned the key up the other way so that it was cabin 6 instead. 6 and 9 are so sneaky. The kitchens all get wiped down, toilets and showers cleaned, visitors have to bring their own linen which is great because we don’t have to make beds, wipe the floors, vacuum and if the visitors were particularly stinky quickly run around spraying air freshener then quickly shut the door and leave the nice smelliness inside…and some cabins really stink, cant work out why some smell worse then others. Anything we find in the cabins we find we can keep..we’ve drunk a bottle of southern and another of archers that we found, today I found cup-a-soup, hand wash and some dishwashing detergent. Last week found some butter, icecreams, oil and some winnie the pool towels that I decided not to keep..along with the mens jocks I found as well.

Hope all is well at home and everyone enjoyed their holidays.

Love jess xoxo

faskally caravan park

jess_dan — Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:56:00 GMT

dear all,

our employment has begun!! the caravan park is awesome, has a pool, free laundry for us and there are 12 of us that all live in the farm house together.

jobs include toilet cleaning, bar, kitchen, night patrol, cleaning caravans and general maitenance, pool attendant and the shop. so far all has been great.

There is no internet access at the caravan park so there wont be many blogs or emails. sorry.

the only contact we will have is mail.

the address is

Faskally Caravan Park

Pitlochry

Perthshire PH16 5LD

Scotland

love to all,

love jess

Edinburgh, Scotland

jess_dan — Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Dear all,

firstly before i forget i loaded a couple of new photos on..they are in the scotland and ireland albums..will maybe try and load a few more later.

We were so wrecked yesterday afternoon, especially after the huge day on the tour. we were planning on getting an early night, but when we came back to the room 4 guys from a punk rock band from israel were sharing our room. They were so chatty and heaps of tatoos and stories they were sharing..ended up bleaching their mohawks for them and only getting 3 hours sleep because we were up again at 4.30am to catch a taxi to get to the airport for our flight at 8am. Once again a ridiculously short flight, we spent longer at the airport and collecting our luggage then we did on the actual flight.

Edinburgh is beautiful, its already ranking on my favourite cities. We hadnt even planned to come here, but now were planning when we can come back. theres an awesome mix of history, new town and old town, gorgeous parks, weird food, whisky and everything else fabulous about the scots..tartan and shortbread. Our hostel is really nice as, huge rooms and a nice kitchen.

Day started really well..by chance guess who we came across who was also visiting edinburgh just down from our hostel?? any guesses??...the QUEEN!! the actual queen with white gloves waving to everyone, she was here to knight some people and we saw her going into the church..well correctly we saw her hat and heard "god save the queen" and someone else photo they snapped of her, but in our photos you cant really see much,but we were still excited to see the queens hat!hooray!

For our only day in edinburgh we went on the free walking tour of the city, covered ALOT of stuff, edinburgh castle, 650million years of scottish history, politics, famous writers, the writer of hykel and jyde who loves the whore house, stole a ridiculous amount of money by being a locksmith and copying peoples keys and then stealing everything, then because he was part of the town council he was put in charge of finding the criminal stealling everything, dodgy bugger was eventually found out and hung at the place that he ordered be built as a councilman...hehehehe. our tour guide had some awesome stories...maggie was hanged for concealing a child which was highly illegal..but she came back to life after being hanged and because they couldnt hang her again because she'd technically already been hanged for the crime..double jeopardy..so she was allowed to live and went on to build a pub in front of the place she was hanged so she could watch everyone else be hanged..yay.

its a great city and were definately coming back. tomorrow we have appointments to get our national insurance numbers which are like tax numbers, then catching the bus to pitlochry where were getting picked up and taken to the caravan park where were going to spend the next couple of months.

weather has been beautiful.

really tired after 3 nights of 4 hours or less sleep each night..

love to everybody, love jess xoxoox

shamrocks, guiness and leprechauns

jess_dan — Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT

dear all,

hello from ireland! ireland has been beautiful and we have had an ablsolute ball..theres so much to tell..

just quickly before we left manchester we went to the indoor snowboarding and skiing centre with elise..it was awesome, me and amy did the intro lesson and did 180's..standing still but still good and little jumps, dan did the big hill and fell over so many times he got a bruise..hehehehe.good fun.

we left manchester on wednesday morning and flew to dublin, ireland on the shortest EVER flight, it was even shorter then amsterdam to london.we left manchester at 2pm and arrived in dublin at 2.50pm, a 50 mintue flight which was ridiculous, we went up and then looked down at the sea and then went down again and then landed...was so fast i cant believe we actually paid for the flight, would have been cheaper to swim!

we were picked up by amys uncle, derek. he didnt recognise us but we picked him because he looks like a shorter version of fergal..felt like amys dad was driving us around again..in the pre-licence days. neways, fergals family have been so good to us, we were picked up and then taken to amys grandads house where we stayed for the last 5 nights. Amys grandad is nearly 90, almost blind, lives by himself and loves having visitors. The kitchen stocked, beds made and meals cooked all for us..and when i say the kitchen was stocked..it was STOCKED!there were sausages, eggs, toast, bacon, tomato and cereal and juice for brekkie and the kettle always just boiled, and a fridge full of sausage rolls, chicken curry, stews etc etc, luckily the diet dosnt start til we to scotland, because for the five days we were there we ate soo much food and there was enough left for another 2 weeks. Nearly even better then the food was the bath towels..the biggest fluffiest towels ever and after 2 months on travel towels, the towels were beautiful. Grandad loved a chat and each night we heard stories of his dislike of the i-talians, love of his lunch at the nunnery down the road, of fergals brother derek being a naughty little villain and throwing several pairs of shoes in a river or in the fire and then throwing a priests hat in the drain because the priest called him by his middle name mary...we heard some good stories..amys got all the goss!

Arrived in dublin on Wednesday...

Thursday: enjoyed a sleep in a very comfy bed and a huge brekkie. Then caught the bus into town, grandad gave us very precise details for catching the bus, we were amazed at the details we were given, street names and the lot. In the town, we did the first ever tourist hop on hop off bus tour of our trip because the weather was rainy and cold, very irish and we werent in the mood for walking around in the rain (and it didnt stop raining until we left dublin, lovely, ill try and send some of the rain home because we dont want it!). First stop we chose to get off at, well actually it was the 10^th stop but we fastforwarded to it because we are impatient..the GUINESS STOREHOUSE!! Dan loved it. Its a really well done museum, we walked through huge displays of how they make guiness..hops (these weird little green pinecone looking things), yeast, barley and special dublin water. The barley is roasted to make guiness, but never try roasted barley...tastes really really bad. Arthur Guiness began guiness back in 1759 when he took out a lease on the james gate brewery for 45 pound a month for a period of 9000 years..thats a long lease. The brewery is right in the middle of town and occupies 64acres..its huge and the land would be worth millions.we enjoyed our free guiness at the gravity bar, 7 stories up surrounded with glass with a beautiful view of the city. Guiness was nice, well the first half was nice, the second half od mine and amys dan had.ive come to like beer but not that much because guiness has such a strong beer taste.

From the storehouse we ran through the rain onto the bus and then the rain kept coming in through the bus roof..great. From there we went to the kilmainham goal, which shut in 1924. The jail held and executed the 14 political leaders of the 1916 easter rising when the irish people revolted against british rule and burnt a large section of dublin. One of the leaders was injured in the easter rising was shot in the leg, so they took him from the hospital to the goal and then executed him in his chair.In its peak the jail held 9000 prisoners, all for ridiculous petty crimes, although there were only 123 cells, the walls were made of lime so everything was damp and the jail was originally made with no windows (thought to aid in “blowing” the disease away..good one). Th jail was freezing and we were there in the middle of summer. The jail has been in several movies..our tour guide said ‘in the name of the father’..which i kinda remember watching at school..not too sure though.

Our bus pass was a 24 hour pass so in between the goal and returning to dublin city we went back to grandads and ate a ridiculous amount of food, chatted, ate, slept, ate and came back to the middle of dublin..in the rain..Our second day on the bus we went to trinity college (university), inside is the book of kells, which is a beautifully decorated latin copy of the four gospels written around 561AD. The book pages are made of leather, but they look like paper they are so thin. From the book of kells we walked through the the main chamber of the library which houses 200,000 of the libraries oldest books in a gorgeous huge room and the oldest harp surviving in ireland..like the one on a guiness can. Rest of the day wandered around the city and went back and had dinner with grandad.

Saturday: in the morning amys cousins came to visit, darren, analeise and graeme, darren has a 2year old named alan who was a little sleepy and grumpy but eventually came around to us when dan bribed him with lollies. Saturday night we planned to go out, and emphasised to grandad to NOT wait up for us and go to bed. Trying to think of describing our night...mm...irish pubs are the BESTEST BEST pubs in the world. We went to the templa bar district which is great because all the pubs are walking distance, all the pubs had irish music playing and a mix of modern stuff, people were up dancing and being merry, the drinks are served in half litre glasses and everyone is merry, it was an awesome night. Surprisingly amy and i displayed our iron guts...dan let us down and threw up in the street behind the pub..weak.one too many guiness and ciders mixed together there. Though i cant really pay out too much on him because the next day i didnt get up til lunch time after spending the morning hugging my little tupperware bowl in bed..tupperware is great for EVERYTHING!! And even amy was a little quesy and green looking till later in the arvo.and guess who was sitting up in the chair waiting for us to get home...starts with g...ends with randad

Sunday: as above the morning was wasted. In the afternoon i dragged myself to dereks car and we were driven to visit pauline, grandads cousin, it was her birthday so we wished her happy birthday and then went on to dereks. Derek and his wife nula use to have a parrot and a dog and the parrot use to talk all the time, it use to ask for apple and what ever it wanted and said good morning and generally didnt stop talking, but the dog died 5 weeks ago and now the parrot dosnt talk anymore, at all. Its kinda sad because the parrot is so sad it dosnt talk anymore. Derek and nula took us to a beachside town, only 20 mins out of dublin called mulahide. We went to a really nice thai restuarant and had pad thai and massaman curry...all of our favourite things that we normally have at the lilydale thai restuarant and luckily we were all feeling alot better and were able to enjoy it. From there we admired the expensive yachts and then went back to dereks and watched the grand final of the euro soccer worldcup, in which germany played ridiculously shizenhouse and were beaten 1-0 by spain.all very exciting..not, i read a magazine and watched the last 5 mins.

Monday: Sadly we left grandad, and caught the 2.5hr bus to belfast. The irish countryside is beautiful, the hills and glades are all so green, theres a few sheep and a couple of randy cows. Was a very pretty drive to belfast. Belfast is in northern ireland, so its 6 provinces are still ‘owned’ by britain which means we swapped from the euro in republic of ireland in dublin back to the pound in belfast..confusing. esecially because ireland have their own special pound notes, but the coins are the same..but they still accept the english pound, but the english wont accept irish pound...aaarrgh.

Northern ireland is the centre of troubles between the irish catholics and the british protestants. We took a black taxi tour of the city and learnt ALOT about the past and the continuing troubles. The catholics and protestants HATE each other and there are strict lines around belfast that neither party cross, theres actually a 45foot wall separating the two groups because they were attacking each other so often. It use to be half the size but they were still throwing things over so they had to extend it to stop them getting at each other..but our taxi guide was a local and said just last week there was a heap of bricks chucked over. We saw all the murals on the protestant side, its all very political and took us a little while to understand but the guide was awesome. Turns out now, in the 21^st century that 70percent of young people in belfast have not spoken to another person from the other side..crazy. There are memorials on both sides to each sides heroes. My parents remember the berlin wall coming down, maybe ill be able to tell my kids that i visited the belfast wall before it came down..or maybe not.

Belfast itself is safe, and we have walked around the city no problems.Hostel was ok, till the hugest man came in at midnight and snored the weirdest snore ever..amy and dan didnt sleep, surprisingly i did..must be cz im use to dans loud snoring...payback dan.

Tuesday: today we got on a bus tour that started in belfast and went to the carrick-a-rede rope bridge, a 20m rope bridge connecting a small island that use to be used for fishing. Luckily the weather was nice, so the fotos turned out awesome. A little scary crossing the bridge..i dont know if you would like it tina. But an awesome view of the atlantic..aparrently on really clear days you can see scotland?we didnt cz the rain was coming in...

Luckily before the rain we started we got to the giants causeway..a natural volcanic formation of these rock pillars along the cliffs from 60million years ago..gaelic legend says a giant put them there when he churned up the path between scotland and ireland. The photos are awesome. The sight is a aworld heritage sight and definately worth the visit.

Then the rain started and hasnt stopped.were in derry or londonderry depending if ur catholic or protestant.heading back soon on the bus.

Going to edinburgh tomorrow.

Love to all.

Love jess xoxxo

Manchester

jess_dan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:13:00 GMT

In all the job excitement, i didnt write anything of our adventures at alton towers and in manchester...

last friday..not sure of the date..all the days seem to merge into one when i dont work..went to alton towers with amys cousin louise. It use to be a castle and gardens, however it got turned into a theme park, but its a very tasteful pretty themepark, theres heaps of rides..and as im writing about this im remembering that ive already wrote it before on here..duh..sorry.

last friday night..im pretty sure i didnt write about that!..were staying with louises older sister elise in manchester now, she just moved in the apartment a little while ago and this weekend there was us and some other friends at the apartment to celebrate their housewarming. So friday night we celebrated the house warming by leaving the house..yay, caught the bus into town, toasted our being in manchester with 2 litre bottles of strongbow and blackcurrant (dosnt have to be blackcurrant tho, weve tried it with cheaper raspberry cordial and its still good), anyway drove through curry mile, which is a mile of indian restuarants and it all smells awesome. From there we half fell off the bus at revolution, a VODKA bar!great, they made awesome pimms cocktails and had a huge HUGE vodka menu that included chili, cherry, bakewell tart, porridge, peach and a very tasty strawberry and vanilla.

From there we walked to a cheap drink place, only 2pounds per cocktail, very good again, not sure what mine was called..but it was tasty. From there to a baabar with a huge shooter menu, then to our final stop which i have no idea what it was called or what i drank..but it was good. Our final stop was food, no 24hour maccas so we went to a kebab, burger, chip and pizza place all in one..the cheeseburger wasn't even that good but i ate it all, amy went home with some random numbers of the male and female variety. We had to walk to bus stop, elise ended up on dans shoulders smacking all the street signs with her hand as we walked along..

Catching the bus home at 3am, we watched the sun starting to rise..the sunlight hours here are crazy, and apparently its only going to get worse the further we go up, tash said in pitlochry where we are going it dosnt get totally dark till 11.30pm, and then light again at 3amish.crazy..even crazier when ur trying to sleep, but also handy when ur walking home from the busstop at 3am.

luckily we had a few, because due to the number of people in the apartment, we didnt have a bed as such, so dan and i had the rug and amy had the couch.comfy.

Saturday began with vegemite on toast, showers and a trip to the super market to get food and drinks for the second night of house warming party. Saturday was also the first day of wii playing...and im hooked..i want a wii...i was even good at tennis and bowling and ski jumping, which is strange because i am a retard when it comes to playstation and nintendo games...or does tetris count as a game to be good at?

second night of house warming began with a bbq of hamburgers and sausages and more wii and wine and 2litre strongbows..always a good mix, i think the wii skills got pregressively worse as the night went on..by midnight people were falling off the platform and hitting the lights on the roof with their exaggerated tennis swings. Walked down the road to the slug and lettuce (a pub/bar), enjoyed a few more strongbows and then wandered home..although some needed a taxi..not me,dan or amy we are good at stumbling in the dark.

Saturday night ended with one of the friends looking very green and sleeping in the corner, more wii, amy dribbling tomato sauce all donw her pj pants eating a hamburger at 1am, more wii and finally falling asleep on my lovely pink rug..again.

Sunday morning..well, there was no sunday morning, we rose at lunch time and went for lunch at the pub. I had a awesome sunday roast and then icecream, which isnt as good as mums spple crumble..but what is?

Yesterday..monday..we caught the bus into the centre of manchester and wandered around, there is a imperial war museum and a science museum, but we already did very similar museums in london so decided we were a little museumed out, so we saw a movie instead. We saw "the happening", quiet a strange film that one..and if i explain it, i know u will laugh and think were crazy, cz it was actually a little scary.....the plants turned on humans and realesed toxins in the air that made humans kill themselves..just think knitting needles, building sites and a lawn mower..it was scary. but as horror films go the ending was bad, actually really bad.

Last night we made stroganoff for dinner and then straberries and icecream, we couldnt get to wimbledon to have strawberries and cream at the tennis, so instead we had our straberries and watched people from elises balcony playing tennis at the courts behind their apartment block.the tennis players were hot..until they got close to the balcony..damn.

Today was a slightly lazy day, we booked everything for our ireland trip, and then went to the post office, bank and supermarket..boring stuff.

From there we had directions to the didsbury park so that we could actually play tennis..its kinda like when the aus open is on you feel like playing tennis, well wimbeldon is on so we felt like playing..anyway, we ended up at didsbury park but there were no tennis courts??? so we played over a fence instead. It didnt really work that well..worked well for dan and amy cz they were on the side with the smooth grass side and i had the lumpy side where the ball bounced any crazy way.

tonight were going to an indoor snowboarding and skiing dome!!hooray, dan is snowboarding because he can link turns, but me and amy are mongers so were enrolled in the introduction course..if i fall im going to aim for amy,she can catch me.

then tomorrow we fly from manchester to dublin,were in dublin till monday with amys grandad (fergals dad) then were planning on going up to belfast, then booked a tour of the giants causeway, carrick-a-rede bridge and derry, and then flying from belfast to edinburgh on wednesday..early, flight leaves at 8am, and its the shortest flight ever, only 50mins including takeoff and runway business, itl take longer to catch the bus to the airport. were going back to the euro again, just when we'd got use to pounds and pence..damn it.

home and away just came on the tv..but its old stuff. they get heaps of channels but most of the stuff thats not english is old, like gilmore girls..rory still looks like shes 16..and i know what happens to her thanks to becs obsession with watching every single gilmore girls episode on dvd..thanks missy.xo, i hope ur ankle gets better soon. xo

brenton and shannon, bassos and kelli and jackson-hope you all have an awesome holiday.tell me all about it when im stuck cleaning caravans.

love to all, and big hugs.

love jess xoxoo

employment!!!

jess_dan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:41:00 GMT

dear all,

we are no longer unemployed bums...we have jobs!!!hooray!! our employment will begin on the 3rd of july at faskally. all details of the location are in the below link!

http://www.faskally.co.uk/

Its a caravan park, so we will be doing general duties, cleaning etc, but it has its own bar which also serves meals so we will be doing that as well, dan willbe doing some maitenance work, using the tractor to move caravans and general outdoor stuff.

We will be living in a house with shared kitchen and bathroom, we can cook our own meals, and will have free days to do wateva.

the pay is much better then anywhere else, most places for livein work/bar work are minimum wage which is around 5 pound, but not us!!we will be taking home 210pound per week (thats minus accomadation) which is really good. Its a summer job so we will work hard and save hard!

till then we are staying in manchester, going out partying with amys cousins, and then wednesday we are flying to dublin to see amys gpa, then hopefully going to belfast and giants causeway and will be back to start work around the 3rd of july.

all very exciting, and now knowing we have a job, we can blow the rest of our money, hooray!

love all, xooxoxox

love jess xoxoxooxox

York

jess_dan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:47:00 GMT

first of all, the daylight hours here are doing funny things to my head, it dosnt get dark until 10.30pm and then its bright again at around 4.30am..its crazy and its not even the middle of summer yet.its just feels funny eating dinner when its still light and waking up and thinking its time to get up but its really still way too early to get up..so then we keep going back to sleep and then realising that its 10am and really time to get up.

Today louise drove us to york. I tried to upload some photos, but the website is being funny and i could only get three up.We drove to york, and walked around the gardens with the ruined cathedral, a church from 1055 and then up onto the york wall, which was built to protect the city. There still remains the little windows with shutters that protected the archers.

From there we had cornish pasties for lunch and kept wandering around the town. Saw the beautiful york minster, which can be seen from every point in the city. Then visited the york dungeons, which is a ghost house mixed with history waxed models and scary people jumping out. Us three girls were holding hands thru the dark bits..there was a 7 year old braver then us. Had sections on the plague, torture, hangings,never ending tunnels and guy fawkes. Guy fawkes tried to blow up parliament with his mates but was busted, he was then tortured for 10 days but never gave up the names of his co-conspirators, so the king ordered him to be hung and then have his bits chopped off and burnt in front of him, and then just ot finish him off ordered his insides to be taken outside and then burnt in front of him aswell..nice.And then even after he was dead his body was to be quatered..real nice.

Im sitting at louises..she's at work at the emergency call centre. I have one big black cat sitting on my lap thats sooky as, everytime i pat it he bringshis head towards my hand so ill scratch his chin.his keeping me warm though because its a little chilly.

All the job hunting got exciting, but we havnt heard yet from the place that we applied for in the lakes district so were just waiting at the moment.

love u all

xoxo