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YAY! That may actually be in the next year or two. We're supposed to be going to WDW with the whole family again next May, but if it falls through, Dani and I are going to DLR instead.

lol. you don't get told off for that here!

i didn't mention travel before, but fawN in particular reminded me.

i'd love to visit Hawaii and New Zealand.
they both have that amazing volcanic scenery.
and there's the black Hawaiian beaches, i visited a black beack at El Golfo in Lanzarote, the sand is full of fragments of a pale green semi-precious stone too, i brought lots of pieces home with me.

this is El Golfo, it's half a volcanic crater, the other half collapsed into the sea, the green lagoon is that colour from algae living in it, it's incredibly deep, with subterranean links to the sea, it's also protected so you can't swim in it.
Lanzarote is a beautiful island, like nothing i've seen before, there's no water on the island at all, i think up to 80% of the land is covered in lava flows, there's a restaurant in the national park where they barbeque over a volcanic vent! it's a good 8 feet across and the heat beating up out of it is scary. the chefs stand on heat proof plates in the floor so they don't burn their feet.

these rings are built from the lava rock, grape vines are planted in them, as there's no irrigation, the islanders rely on condensation collected within these bowls to keep the vines alive.
i seem to have wandered off course a little here don't i? now where was i biggrin

i'd like to go to Italy, i stayed on the Adriatic coast when i went with my Mum in 1980

what an adorable child huh??
i had a lovely tan though biggrin
i'd love to visit sorrento, some much loveliness in one place!

even if it is just across the Bay of Naples from Vesuvius..
http://www.aminta.it/LiveVesuviuscam.htm
and i still have my dream of living in San Francisco one day.

you have some nice dreams Lizzy, i wish i had creative talent.
i too would love to be able to write a book, it would be a book full of love and happiness that would make you laugh and cry and give you a warm glow inside, i'd like to be able to illustrate it myself too.
i have a mental image of someone reading it..
it's a typical November day in Britain, dark, grey,windy, the rain is beating against the window,but take a peek through the window.. you're looking into someone's living room. It's cosy, there's a log fire burning in the grate, with a cat curled up, asleep, infront of it. A lady sits in a big, squishy red armchair, feet tucked up beneath her. she has a gently steaming mug of tea on the table beside her but it's growing cold. She's forgotten about it, so immersed is she in my lovely book. As she sits with the book open in her lap i see a golden glow eminating from it, bathing her face in literary sunlight.

bit fanciful i know, but isn't that what dreams are all about??

FawN, does it take a long time for the lessons? I'm just curious as to how long it will take so I can work it into my schedule someday.

post the recipe here for us too please biggrin

~ Another nice thing about web tech U and the time allotted is that you do it and respond at a time good for you. I really liked that I was working full time 4 am to noon plus studying electronics at CCSN when I took the classes but managed to work them in no problem, especially since they were so fun rofl
I still have the web page with assignements posted on it (we're talking 2001) and have every intention of going though the PSP classes from scratch as soon as I break down and buy PSP 9. HTML has stayed with me much better, but I do want to move along to some of their higher levels in that, as well. I was really tickled to see how far smilesnz has taken it as I recommended them when she was looking almost 2 years ago heart

*pokes fawN*
where's that soup recipe then??? blaugh