The Macdonald files

Hi yes here is the new car!!looks ok doesnt it!..apart from the kids say it smells of sick ( it does )..but its probably gonna smell a whole lot worse after we have done 3000 miles in it!! Hey the radio works! definately the most important working part on a car I say….and its purple..a girlie colour…..and its a pontiac….classic American ..its done nearly 200000 miles!! we looked on a review site of the car which was pretty horryfying…..we laughed and laughed!! some reviews were great and we are hanging on to thier positive words!!but far too many of them slated our make of car..here of some of the repeatable ones!!….theft resistant..no-one wants to steal it……..It has won awards for being in the least reliable cars for the last 8 consecutive years!!!…..you have to try to make junk this bad!…..a rolling junkyard! Hamish found some saving graces in these next 2 comments……It looks sexy………and….picking up girls..no problem!! what!…Charlotte has told Hamish it takes a confident man to drive a pink car!It seems to run nice but you know our track record with cars..please pray this will be the exception to the rule!! and get us all the way to LA in time to catch flights to Guatamala!!We wont have resident mechanics likeJeff..my Dad and Dave Shep to come over and get the thing going! The car salesman couldn`t believe we were doing this trip and kept saying “is he for real” behind Hamish`s back…well I`m afraid he is real…..and I think were going to have fun!! I will end on a musical quote from a band some might know called fat and frantic……we will get there…….” on a spanner and a prayer”oh nothing to do with the car… George vernon I have already used your journal…I`m hoping to use the church piano in the next couple of days….feeling songs coming along!! and Katie I have used your lttle manicure set my nails have never looked so nice!!! having a bit of space to actually do them is lovely! thankyou ..miss you all guys!! write soon…keep us in your prayers..cheers veronica…yes we have brought the banner you all painted for us photos for how many uses of a banner will follow!!!!! they will be good.And our camera broke!!we have to buy a new one ..If only Nik vernon had lent us his new one!!!!!!!!! hope all is well at church ,I miss playing lots but sure everyones doing a great job!God bless you all.thanks for all your emails ..appreciate them!love Rach and Ham and kids.Please anyone with Anitas number please give her a call feel like we cant communicate with no mobile set up as yet..and tell her we miss her.!cheers

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Just to let you know that we will have another blog. I have just started it tonight, to see if we had a better way of sharing our photos. It seems good and a little speedier, we will probably keep both Blogs going, Rachel writing this one(witty and funny) giving a girl perspective and i’ll try and write the other one, but least i’ll have the photos! all you have to do is go to www.xanga.com/HamishandRachel

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Hi thought you all might like to see our freinds and thier kids.We first met charlotte in Honduras in 1997..she was helping in a mission close to where we were..we invited her to our place..and got along great…charlotte has a great sense of fun and a big heart..we all spent a lot of time together including the terrible time of hurricane mitch.In the orphanage where we were was where she met Oscar…. a Honduran worker in the orphanage..who was also a great guy a great worker with the kids…well to cut a long ( actually not that long!!) story short we watched the romance blossom and 2 months after we left for the uk they were married!!they now have 4 of the most gorgeous kids you`ve ever seen….not just in looks but in lovely little characters..so I`ll show you some photos of the” cafe con crema kids”…oscars quote meaning coffee with cream in spanish!Its great to see them parenting thier kids so well..and both of them doing well and happy .They have a very peaceful home.. busy but peaceful….we will miss them when we go…and hopefully they will come and stay in England and we will drive them everywhere too!!ALWAYS WELCOME !!

For more pictures of our outings and of our friends please visit their blog at www.xanga.com/mujerfeliz The photos there are bigger and easier to see, since we have not learned how to make our photos larger yet.

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