October 27, 2002

well we are in Ballina right now and we are trying to look for a place to stay, and its not working so well.   over here all the rental places are through a real estate agent and very few are in the paper and renting out on their own.   its messed up and caused us a bit of grief because we need references and all that crap or else they don't even think about lending out a place.   I was wondering if you could fax a reference, and if maybe Linda Rees could make one up too that would be great.   I got a fax number you could send them too at the hotel here in town....New south Wales area code ! and I don't know what the country code for Australia is but I'm sure you can find out.   at the moment we are staying with this really nice guy that works there and he has helped us out quite a bit and I am really hoping we don't overstay our welcome, you know exactly what I mean right.   anyways your help is greatly appreciated and hopefully its not a problem.  I don't know when you get this but as soon as you can send a fax would be awesome. I hope everything is going good at home and that Mami is doing fine as well.   tell everyone I said hi and that I love them...

Oliver