I haven't told you about Hallowe'en down here have I? It was mental... from about 16.30 onwards the door barely stopped knocking! We must have had about 50 kids to the door. We had bought enough sweets to fill our biggest soup pot, but half way through the night I had to send Craig out for reinforcements because we had run out (and that was with me only eatin a few!!). They don't to a trick or anything down here they just stick their little hands out for sweets. It's quite American, they talk about 'trick or treatin' and carry pumpkins... I asked local friends if they ever heard about guising and using turnips as your lantern and they just looked at me funny.... no, why would you do that? turnips are just plain hard to carve. Hmm, good point.
Later on we went out with a few friends to the bar at the beach for a few drinks.

On the Saturday, Craig, Mark, Siobhan and I went down to the beach to meet my friend Bex for the fireworks. They had a really good display- it lasted for ages and had some pretty impressive fireworks. Poor Snoop was a bit traumatised by the the noise. When we got back he was hiding under the shelf where we stack our shoes. We didn't let that stop us let off our own fireworks in the garden on Wednesday though. They were quite good, although the first few were so lame they went off a bit like a wet fart. I was impressed that this came off without hitch, after the catherine wheel that had been attached to the garden shed spun off and set fire to the cover for the BBQ!

Its been a quiet week, just work and uni. Tonight Craig and I are planning to go to the cinema to watch the new James Bond movie. Will let you know what we think...

Have a good weekend.