Sorry you can't understand me Mark and thats before we meet.This holiday is going to be very interesting me thinks!!!I'm sure there will be lots of your lingo that we won't understand too so you will be able to get your own back I'm sure!

yeah, i was just talking to my wife about some vabulary and thought maybe you saw i was from manchester, Connecticut (US) that is. Although I like Football (soccer) the Manchester United team is not my favorite. So I am assuming that biddies are "old lady's..." ok got it. And barmy, described to me as mad as a hatter. I am still confused as hell on that one! A hatter??!!?!? Some one who wears a hat maybe? I wear a hat from time to time, am I a hatter? I do not know if there are carnations in the DR but I may have to bring a silk one on the trip with me. I do have 2 tattoos on my upper arms so maybe that may be good enought to locate me? I am young enough and had been a bartender for a few years in a previous life that I cannot be embarrassed much...

Toms, I think the phrase "mad as a hatter" is from times past when the glue etc that they used in the Hattery turned them nutty.

Yes nightrider this is going to tke some explaining. Obviously we speak a differnt language to our American friends! This holiday should prove very enlightening from both sides don't you think??

Right Mark now have got hubby interested!! That takes some doing. He wants to know what sort of age group do you 2 fit into? have you any kids, what sort of work do you do? Nothing on your profile. Shame on you!! I take it you will have read up on me!

You mention Tattoos . What sort of picture am I looking for just in case you forget the carnation? I don't want to be gawping at everyone round the pool - they might think I am strange (what??????)

Yes I know I am strange but people over there don't know that yet!

Just give me a clue please.

I live in anticipation!!!!

Ps is your wifey barmy too then??

stop stop stop, you are making me feel sick, we have soooooo long to wait, over 120 days and more joe says. i am wishing our summer to go faster so we can get the case out. how many shoe's are in your case? bg

Are you jealous????????Ha Ha

Just going to check..... Counted 6 pairs of sandals so far and 2 flip flops.Depending on weight(case not me .God help if they start weighing us) I may leave 1 or 2 pairs at home! I will probably only wear 2 or 3 pairs but a girl likes to be prepared!!

Only 7 more days ..........................

Don't know what I'll be like by next weekend. Flying...................................

I am driving my darling hubby barmy (english word!!!)

I am so excitred already and he's in his usual stance - laid back and could't care less!!

Just thought bg will Mark know what gawping means?? I tell you I am going to spend all holiday explaining ye old English language. Poor man!!

nope gawpy, no idea. Both my wife and I are 27, no kids as of yet. I have a frog on my right arm and a sun on my left. Nothing too interesting. I am a combo outside salesman/engineer. I also teach kids about fishing and environmental awareness and have started to help teach culinary classes at a local cooking store. My wife right now is working part time for one of my customers doing purchasing and building some cables, but by trade she does medical billing. We are both pretty reserved by nature but we can both get pretty loud pretty quick when alcohol is involved. Neither one of us really drinks too much and both have a hard time drinking rum. Both have stories of overdosing on the rum back in our college days. You will have to help us get back into the swing of it. Not I keeping hearing yall talk about "bubba kegs", what in the world are those? It is kind of funny to me that almost every review the macao has is from visitors from your planet (lol). Why is that? Does it appeal more to the "european" style?

Havn't got a clue if they all come from my planet. I doubt it I think I'm on one of my own most of the time!!

I can't beleive you don't know about bubba kegs - you being American.I'd never heard of them till I got on this forum. They are insulated mugs - you use them around the pool and on the beach to keep your drinks cool and so sand and bugs don't get in them.

Theres loads of threads on here about them I'm sure you must have noticed. Better be quidk and go and buy a couple before you go.