Taz and I have spent the last few nights relaxing on Tonsai Bay. It's funny that we're nearly at the end of our trip and we ended up in exactly the same bungalow that we stayed in last time we were here. When we checked out this morning it was nice to pay 20 quid for our entire stay :-) It has been really hot and not rained the whole 4 days so it was a great opportunity to tan ourselves to death. I think all the entertaining we've done over the last couple of weeks has caught up with us too, by the time 9pm comes round we've usually been asleep or sat in the Small World Bar (our favourite) trying to keep our eyes open! The other day an American guy checked out opposit us and gave us a 30 quid bottle of wine that he hadn't got round to drinking. So we drank it and were asleep just after 8pm, he he.
We spent yesterday climbing and it was all good apart from a bit of rope burn for me! I did a climb that was pretty hard for me, I only just managed to do it last time so I'm chuffed that I managed it this time after months of no climbing whatsoever. It feels like the end of an era. We've been free as 2 little birds, doing whatever the hell we want for a whole 6 months, climbing whenever and wherever the hell we want. No timescale. No commitments. We'll miss that I tell you!!! It all feels very emotional!
Last night after climbing we were sat outside of our room on the balcony when we heard a huge bang. Turns out the monkeys from the forest behind us had come to raid the nearby trees for fruit. They were massive dark grey monkeys with bright white fur around their eyes and mouth, very strange looking things! We videoed them playing around and swinging in the trees, they mustn't have known we were watching because when the cleaner appeared they bolted and flicked off some roof tiles of the opposit bungalow. We also hav a big lizard in our garden :-) and a massive spider :-( There's also loads of squirels who I'm sure are responsible for knocking the coconuts out of trees, you'll be sat there minding your own business and the next thing you know there's a massive THUD and a cocounut lands beside you. Scary! Sitting outside our bungalow's like a nature show - the noises the bugs make are also unbelievable, soooo loud at night!
Late last night we donated some Sangsom (Thai Rum) to the staff at the Small World who were very pleased and drank it after they performed their fire show. Very sensible! I got a picture with one of them who's a spitting image of my little brother, Harry. Photo coming soon... I can't wait to come back and see them all again, they're so friendly, and we've only been away 5 minutes! We discovered last night that they only get paid 6000 baht which is 120 quid a month. And they all sleep on the floor in there at night under a mozzy net. Little soldiers!
It was sad to get a longtail over here this morning to Ao Nang but we can't live in paradise forever! So we've spoilt outselves with a very nice room for the night. It has a lovely pool with nice plants and palm trees around it that we've been relaxing in today. It's not every day that we get a room with an actual kettle in it! And we've had our first hot shower for well over a week. Tomorrow we fly to Bangkok (after abusing the breakfast buffet at our nice hotel) which will probably be our last destination before we come home. We're going to do some spoil yourself type stuff, like massages, dates at the cinema, nice seafood teas before we have to come back to the real world. We're also going to get some last minute prezzies and have all our washing done for the nice little woman that does it for peanuts, so our mums don't go mad when we tip our baggage out!
Happy Fathers Day Dad!xxxxxx
Oooooh and before I forget, I promised Sarah that I wouldn't tell anyone that she fell in the mud on the way to the airport... ;-) It's icing on the "appendix removal" cake! I think it's Thailands way of getting you back for calling it Blackpool!!! I just can't believe I didn't get a picture, he he he...
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