in our haste to get out here we never checked one part of our electronic wizardry. unfortunately it failed and we must resort to finding internet cafe's with usb ports. not quite as easy as you may imagine since most of the cafe's have computers out of the mid 90's. but ok, it's working now.

i've spent most of the day on the beach and developed a bit of a sunburn. 80's-90's for temp, sun on my face, not a cloud in the sky, the warm ocean around me, waves breaking on me, me gagging on salt water. it's pretty awesome.

grant just came over and told us this funny story about some girls that just arrived from somewhere and are trying to find a hotel with no reservations (good luck). one of them went to the toilet and then came back and asked the people working here for some toilet paper. the lady working said they had none. the girl asked where she could get some and the woman working looked completely befuddled and stated she didn't know. she got all pissed off and stormed out. noobs. really funny though.

lets see if i can upload a picture of our rickshaw pre-pimping (which we will be doing later).

not working, damn, maybe later.

we had a test drive of a spare rickshaw last night and grant was first at the wheel. when we returned we were immediately voted the team most likely to blow their motor. awesome.

this place has AC and i don't want to leave, but our time is up.

tonight is new years and we plan on celebrating crc style. we have a spare bottle of rum, will be getting several red bulls, and for sure will be the loudest at the party (we are the loudest at every bar depending upon how much we've drank).

anyways, more updates will follow!

-mark