Well I’m a year older but I can’t say whether I am any wiser!   😀    LOL

Thank you to everyone for all my Birthday wishes, cards & pressies.  I was very spoilt.

On the 15th, Simon and I went to Koh Samui to extend our visa’s for another month, so that was good to get that out the way but what Simon hadn’t told me was that he’d, booked us a couple of nights in a snazzy hotel.

The weather wasn’t great but that didn’t put us off making the most of the hotel facilities.

Simon left me to unpack while he popped to the shops for bubbly & snacks.  It wasn’t long before he returned with a bag of goodies and we both enjoyed the delights of our plunge pool 😀  ..which was a tad cold.

After relaxing for most of the day, I opened my cards and little prezzies!

Then we headed out in the evening to Bophut (Fisherman’s village) and tried out a new Italian restaurant  ‘The Godfather’ which we’ve heard good things about.  We were not disappointed. It was Pizza all round, and we were absolutely stuffed when we left to return to the hotel for another dip in our plunge pool before a nice sleep in some super cool air conditioning.

The next morning, we were up early to enjoy breakfast and chilling out, before heading into Chaweng to do some shopping, which was pretty unsuccessful. We ended up heading back to the hotel with nothing but a packet of cheese for Steve.

The next day it was packing time and off back to Koh Tao….

This is the new office.  Basically it’s Steve’s apartment and I’ve got an area for ECO  …which is cool ..in fact it’s not cool it’s like an oven in there 😀

Today, I got my toenails painted!  They were bright orange, then green and this is supposed to be a sunny yellow.  To make me cheery!!  LOL

The past week has been by in a flash.

Jenny has been getting slimming massages every day. She is not allowed to exercise through this, and gets a little frustrated when she can’t go out cycling…

However, I did catch her in the shower with her bike, giving it a good scrub… Bonkers!!

Me, I have had a rotten cold which knocked me for six. Yesterday, we went to Sail Rock, and although it was difficult to get down because of the after effects of the cold… I managed eventually.

It was a lovely couple of dives, and I brought a hammock to put up for the 2 hour journey to the dive site. Although it was so choppy in the beginning that I was almost thrown out of it!!  The journey back was calmer, and I ended up asleep in it… What a way to spend a day… Super nice!

I went for a walk this morning, to help get rid of the congestion from the cold.. 2 hours and plenty of uphill walking was knackering, but good getting some fresh air.
Lots of cards have arrived in the last couple of days, for Jenny’s birthday.  We are heading to Samui for a couple of days (since we need to extend our visas there anyway). She is going to have a relaxing couple of days chilling out, before we come back to Koh Tao.

x

SD