After settling in to our accommodation, of which was delightful as we had mini bungalows compared to the normal hostels we stay in, we went off to explore the island on the mopeds. At this point Hanisha and Lindsey are yet to arrive, so its just Tom and I on one moped and Dave and Faye on the other, the boys taking control with the driving while us girls just admired the view. And what a view it was......
We made are way across the island to a small beach, there were very few foreigners to be seen and those which were visiting were a little bit older than us, so we did attract some attention with our white skin (well myself and Dave's skin). For the majority of the day we sunbathed and chilled on the beach, the other girls then joined us later. We had a lot of fun going on a banana boat and being thrown in to sea head first hundreds of times. I lost count the amount of times Faye and I nearly lost our bikinis and gave the locals even more to stare at!
Once the shaking from the accident had stopped we decided the evenings antics must go on!! About 4 drinks in to Dave's 24 drink challenge of the night we headed off to "Pan and David's" restaurant, recommended by a website, for a meal and more drinks the Thai way (order a bottle of alcohol and mixes) I'm not sure how to write about the whole evening.....but lets just say the effects of alcohol started to kick in and a hilarious evening unfolded. There were incidents involving cheesecake, limes and northern banter along with dancing at a Thai family gathering and being sung happy birthday too. When us girls, the slightly more sober ones of the group thought it was best we leave the restaurant we headed back to the bungalows to attempt some drinking games. Tom and my self's drunken attempt at teaching the others a game of flip cup was awful but not nearly as bad as Tom on his own trying to teach us a card game. Which he failed epically at even after looking the rules up online!
I think we lost count of how many drinks Tom and the Birthday boy managed to complete in their challenge but after reaching about 15 we all called it a night, the next day there were a few sore heads among the group. Therefore we decided to take it easy and didn't have breakfast till about 12, and then wandered down to one of the piers before we had to head home. Of course we can't forget the stop at 7/11 for some souvenirs....
We were all commenting on how it was lucky only a few of us had injuries from the weekend when I decided to adventure down some steps on the pier and slipped landing with a thud on my arse!! It was like something out of a cartoon so I was laughing hysterically and was gutted to find no one saw me slip so didn't join me in the moment, but just helped me up. That's 4 out of 6 with war wounds....oh wait make that 5. Moments later Tom was feeling hot so jumped off the pier in to the sea to cool down, while climbing back up he scraped his legs and elbow on the rocks. Just Lindsey survived!!
After an epic journey home and finding it nearly impossible to get a mini bus back to Bangkok we made it.
Remember how I said Lindsey didn't get hurt......we receive a message on Monday morning saying she's got a swollen eye like she had been punched. She has no idea how it happened!
With Love from Thailand xxx
P.s I promise to stay safe this weekend
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