I think it must have been around 5am when I woke to the sound of Simon being sick. I got up to check on him but he’d locked the bathroom door and was crashed out on the floor but I heard a groan and the click of the lock, poked my head in and he was feeling very sorry for himself and returned to bed a few minutes later.  I thankfully didnt feel that bad, a heavy head and tired but that was it. 

A couple of hours of sleep and Si was still feeling sick but didnt want to be, so we kept drinking (water) with the odd cup of tea in between.  Most of the morning was spent lying down with the odd bit of sleep. We eventually surfaced around 12 and walked into Sairee for breakfast as we both needed to eat.  The only thing Si fancied was a cooked breakfast, so we went to ‘Choppers’ and ordered two big bottles of water each, a coke and a full english breakfast (one veggie of course)
I was ravenous and Si was struggling big time and only managed to eat half of his as he was still feeling sick.

After breakfast we walked along the beach, back to ‘Vibe Bar’ to collect the bike where we had sensibly left it last night.  The sun was so intense, even though it was just a couple of yards, it felt like a mile.  Finally making it to the bike we hoped on and took a slow ride home, stopping for more water on the way and straight back to bed for a couple of hours sleep.

In the evening Si felt slightly better and thankfully the sick feeling had gone.  As the thought of going out and even seeing alcohol made us both feel ill, we decided to get a pizza takeaway and watch Lost and The Apprentice in bed

Jen
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Last night was brilliant!   It was sheer chaos at Nathans, everybody  trying to get hair, make up and costumes on, beers being passed around and photo’s being taken.  The time just flew by and before we knew it, Nath has a call to say ‘where are you guys’, with that we all hopped on the bikes and headed to ‘Vibe’ bar to gather, pick up a couple of props and then marched down the beach full pelt to the festival.

When we arrived, our music intro had already started so we rushed on stage on stage and took our positions.  Such a wave of excitement as the lights came on and we did our routine.  Due to a tree in the middle of the stage, we changed the routine slightly but I think last night was the best performance of all 😀

The aftershow celebrations began, cheering, hugging, congratulating each other, we’d done it, all that preparation had paid off.  After a late and very drunken evening we went home. Video coming soon….!

Today is Simons Birthday.  We both woke up feeling a bit worse for wear  …I got up make tea and a egg sandwich and gave Si his cards & prezzies to open whilst giving him various renditions of Happy Birthday!

As we were not diving today the day was ours to do as we wanted, so we stayed in bed for another hour or so watching tv.

Afternoon approached so we decided to venture out to the festival to grab some food.  We had our minds set on Mexican as the taco’s on one of the stalls looked really good.  I got a chicken and Si a vegetable one.  Whilst pottering around, we bumped into Alan & Heidi so sat with them for a bit and tried to eat our taco’s without too much mess.
Half an hour or so in the sun was enough and feeling dehydrated and tired, we snuck off home to lay down and watch a movie.

Around 7pm we were feeling more alive and headed to Dirty Nelly’s to watch a friend’s Open Water Video, stopping at Nathans on the way to collect a birthday cake for Si, disguised in a black bin liner.   It was so hard trying to keep it secret, especially when your mode of transport is a bike with Si riding it :-D)  Anyway, even though I think he knew, I shot into Dirty Nelly’s kitchen with Tina, placed the candles on it and then felt really guilty that it was videographer Dans Birthday too, so got the chef to cut some carrot up and added his name. Then after the video, got both Si and Dan to cover their eyes and I brought in the cake whilst we all sang Happy Birthday   …Argh!  I think Si (they) liked it!

So Birthday cake cut and eaten, we headed to the festival to catch Big Blue Dive School perform ‘Thriller’ on stage.  As we parked, we could here the  Thriller music, so ran to the stage to catch the last of it.  They looked pretty good but were they as good as us the night before  …who knows?!

The rest of the Crystal crew were about watching Mr & Mrs Koh Tao (people up on stage with home made recycled costumes) so we gathered and started drinking.  Poor Si was being bought drink after drink, shot after shot.  Im not surprised we staggered home…

Jen

Woke pretty early and cooked breakfast whilst Simon put the finishing touches on the graphics for tonights performance of the Crystal Horror Show.

Around 2pm we ventured down to the Festival to see what was happening and to meet up with some friends.  The entrance itself was pretty impressive, a huge straw tunnel decorated inside with white strips of material hanging with fish made from recycled plastic bottles painted with neon. Around the festival, giant sea creatures hung from trees & ropes, food stalls lined one side while other areas were set aside for pictures & information boothes as to how people can help, what they’ve already done to preserve the island & it’s reefs.

The main stage was finally finished. A reggae band were rehearsing and  I felt pretty excited that we were going to be up there later performing  OMG!!

A couple of hours later we headed home to relax before the show as we were all meeting at Nathans to get ready and obviously have a few beers for dutch courage.