After a lovely Birthday it’s back to normal.  On Friday I had a bit of a lie in, I arranged to meet my eco intern at 11:45am ready for the afternoon boat where we were going out to collect Crown of Thorns.  Crown of Thorns are giant star fish with up to 23 legs and can grow to nearly a meter.  They eat the algae living within coral.  In abundance the Crown of Thorns can do a lot of damage. destroying large area’s of reef, as numbers have risen around the island, we go out and collect them on a regular basis.  Each individual, depending on it’s size can produce millions of eggs/larvae.  The larvae feeds on phytoplankton and due to the rise in nutrients in the water due to pollution, run off etc they is no end of food for them and due to overfishing, a lot of the young don’t get eaten  ..so with that inbalance, it can have serious repercussions.  Anyway, we collected 6 in total  ..not a lot but it’s a good thing that we didn’t see that many.

This weekend I’ve tried to stay away from the office.  I did pop in for a couple of hours to catch up with posting some photo’s and catching up on mails but I’ve stayed away.   You would think this is pretty hard but as this is the only place that I see Simon, it’s tempting to stay there all day and everyday.  I do feel guilty though when Simon asks me what I’m doing today.  Especially when I say, Oh, maybe go for a swim, cycle massage ..just have a ME day!!
Oh, I had a bit of a clear up last night after I did some food shopping, had my hair trimmed and finished in the office.   It was like being back at ‘Fermoy’ (old home)  clearing the woods and making bonfires.  The entrance is looking so much neater 😀  Here are a few pictures ..I should have taken before ones but you’ll just have to use your imagination and think  10000 of leaves everywhere. 

Woke up this morning and showered.  Simon had made a delicious cooked breakfast for my birthday ..yummy!!  

Then I got to the office and Steve told me to close my eyes and then presented my with these lovely cakes  …argh my goodness..

I spent the day on the boat teaching, then back to Crystal, having a few G and T’s before heading to Whitening for a birthday dinner….

Below are some pics of the house, after moving in… getting there slowly… Simon has to put some shelves up and fix a few bits and bobs but its feeling very cosy!

Last night we went to Ceasars Palace to see a show called Absinthe.   If you are easily offended then it wouldn’t be for you.  The hosts pretty much go out of their way to offend anyone and everyone so you need a good sense of humour to enjoy it.  It’s one of those shows where you definitely wouldn’t sit in the front row. The acts performed breathtaking acrobatics within just a couple of feet of you, so it was really in your face. Such a good show I’d definitely go and see this one again.

On the morning of the 1st September I was given another envelope to open with yet another surprize. I thought things couldn’t get any better as we’d already been to see Cirque Du Soleil, Absenthe, had an incredible helicopter tour of the Grand Canyan but Simon had done it again, made me blub with tickets to.

Coldplay were amazing.  The light show was brilliant and what made it more effective was that everyone was given a wrist bands to wear that lit up and flashed different colors during the concert.  I’ve never seen anything so pretty.

Such an amazing trip and SIMON, you’re an amazing husband.  I love you!!