We woke early and headed down to the ferry terminal around 9am to meet Scott before he caught the 9.30 boat to Koh Samui for the last leg of his journey. After hugs, slaps on the back were exchanged and tears wiped from our cheeks we watched him toodle off down the pier, his head hung low and bag in tow looking back occassionally to see us waving ridiculously with joy ;-D  LOL

Scott, if you’re reading this, it’s been fabulous to have you here.  We will really miss you XX

On our way home we stopped and picked up a couple of pre-made rolls for lunch as today Si’s got to work for most of the day, which isn’t gong too well at the moment as one of the program’s crashed, his disks to reinstall it are in Mae Haad and would you believe it, it’s chucking it down and it doesnt look as though it’s going to stop for some time.  Typical!!

Si finally managed to find a fix and carry on working for another few hours before we sat back to watch an episode of Eastenders (does anything cheery ever happen?!)
After quickly showering we headed to ‘Dirty Nellys’ for the 7pm ‘Save Koh Tao’ meeting where we discuss what’s going on and around the island to help sustain the islands ecology.  Beach Clean ups (land/sea) updates on the Festival which runs on the 20th & 21st March, up and coming projects etc

After the meeting, it was rehersals for the Crystal Horror Picture Show  …if I havent mention it, we’re doing the Timewarp and hopefully getting one of the guys to do the Sweet Transvestite part which is going to be hilarious.  Simons cleverly done the graphics & titles and luckily for us, one of the Dive masters is a choreographer, I think without her we would have wasted hours, maybe days on getting a routine together.  What a talent!  By the end of the night we’d just about covered everything, less the main leading roles. 

After rehearsals, we stopped at ‘Cafe Del Sol’ for dinner and headed home to watch a couple of episodes of ‘Heroes’

Jen x

Si had been up for an hour at least before I surfaced around 10.40am after another unplanned late night.

We’d invited Scott up for food and a game of pool, then Alan & Heidi joined us and we ended up chatting and playing pool till 1am   ..Scott eventually caught a taxi home after Alans assistance as not many taxi’s want to venture up our mountainous hill.

Most of the day was spent in the pool as we hadn’t booked to go on any dives and Tina (fellow instructor) was out of the water due to her ear being inflamed so we all just to played around in the pool having doggy paddle races, handstand competions and all that marlarky.

A few hours later we all felt peckish, so decided to go ‘Safety Stop’ to grab some food.  Si logged onto the internet as usual to do work.  After eating, Tina went home and I popped out with Scott to buy his ferry ticket to Koh Samui for tomorrow morning.    On our return, we got the checkers out and I gave Scott a good thrashing 😉    We had good intention to go to mini golf when it got a bit cooler but Si received a few more urgent jobs that needed to be done, so we ended up staying.
Scott left around 7pm to get showered and returned an hour later  ..thankfully Si had just about completed all that he all he could, so we had a celebratory beer and headed to Dirty Nelly’s for food, before retiring early.

We’re so tired!!

We must have stumbled home around 1.30am and had to be up at 6am in order to be down at Crystal in time to catch the boat as we volunteered to lead fun divers.   We obviously hadn’t planned on staying out late, it just ended out that way.  Originally we thought that Scott should experience Sairee by night properly, so started at Choppers’ an Aussie bar, loud music, band, sports being played on plasma’s everywhere  ..most popular place for newly qualified Open Water Students where things can get very messy.

Then our next port of call was ‘Lotus’ beach bar. This is one of those bars where it just comes alive at night  ..its got a palm tree leaning right over the sea, people doing fire poi, good upbeat tunes and sell lethal buckets of Samsong & coke, Vodka & Redbull.    So after bumping into Tina & Carsten who we didnt think were coming out …the earlyish night went out the window.

Anyway, in the morning,  after stopping to get a fried egg sandwich to takeaway, we made it to Crystal in good time &
sat quietly on the boat feeling sorry for ourselves from the lack of sleep & heavy heads 😀
Luckily both of our groups that we took fun diving were very good, so a nice & easy couple of dives at ‘South West Pinnacle’ and ‘Shark Island’

Back on dry land we washed our kit, stamped the fun divers log books with our new funky stamps with our PADI intructor numbers on, then headed to ‘Safety Stop’ for lunch with Tina & Scott before jumping in  the pool.

Tonight, Scotts coming over and we’ll play a few games of pool 😀