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 😀

Met with Scott at his hotel, he was busy watching a film in the luxury of his air conditioned room, so we ventured back to Crystal to grab the bike and go for breaky…on the way we bumped into Nathan who was going to Chalok, other end of the island to grab some food, so we decided to go with him, just for a change of scenery.   We both ended up having a jacket spud would you believe with cheese and bean. Very nice indeed 😀

Back at the Crystal we thought it would be an ideal time to catch Matt the Crystal Course Director to film his part in the ‘The Rocky Horror Crystal Show’ as Si had his camcorder but as we arrived he was just leaving, full of cold  ..sounding terrible.  A real shame but we managed to grab Lob (an instructor) to shoot a B list version in one of the classrooms to test the lighting and work out exactly what Matt would have to do.   Its going to be hilarious!

Running only a hour or so late we met Scott at his hotel and played in the pool.  After a few hours in the pool we felt pretty peckish so went to Cafe Del Sol for a sandwich and drink and then headed home for a shower and change of clothes, ready for a night out in Sairee.