Happy Saturday.

It’s been another sunny day today. About silly degrees celsius with a few grey clouds that appear for about 10 minutes before letting the Sun out again. The week started with sunny mornings and early afternoons, before rain around 3pm onwards. As the week’s gone on that rain has got later and later, until today, when it never came at all. There was the usual thunder claps and lightening strikes in the distance. But no rain. Even when all went dark and it looked destined to tip it down, it didn’t.

The upside of it not raining, or downside depending on whether you’re like me or like Soph, is that it leads to more sunshine. Soph is starting to look more and more like her Indian ancestors. While I am starting to look more and more like the those old white bed sheets that were put in the wash with a pair of red socks. We’ve all got them. So our days are initially spent searching for a spot with enough shade for me ans enough Sun for Soph. Then by the time we’ve found the spot, I’m burnt.

Our visit to the beach today was our last one. Last one at this beach that is. We have plenty more to come. But we have really enjoyed this one. Perhaps because it’s been the first beach we’ve come across, we don’t know. But it’s been nice. We’ve really enjoyed Krabi. And to think just last week, we’d never heard of it.

Unfortunately though Soph has become a little wary of the sea. We started the week off loving a good swim but yesterday she discovered a scary truth. Kata beach, the place we are staying in Phuket from tomorrow, is one of the main locations hit so hard by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

She keeps checking the tide to make sure it hasn’t rapidly gone out. Suppose it hasn’t helped that I’ve been looking up YouTube videos from the disaster and making sure she knows I’m watching them. Could have something to do with it I guess.

Although the sea didn’t turn into a gigantic wave today, it did take something from us. For the last year or so we have been shading our eyes from the sun with a pair of black Ray-Bans. I am certain these are fake due to the simple fact that we are not millionaires. However Soph has always been adamant that they are real.

We’ve sort of been sharing these sunglasses until last week when Soph got a pair for herself. They cost about £1.40 so don’t think there is any argument that these are fake. This hasn’t stopped her from loving those old black rays though. In fact it’s why she has been so determined to make sure I take care of them. And take care I have….but….

How was I supposed to know they would fall off my head when trying to see how long I could float in the sea. How was I supposed to know they would sink straight to the bottom and be impossible to find. Anybody would make the same mistake. Real Ray-Bans would have stayed on my head…oh and to those wondering, I managed about 9 seconds. I need to practice my floating skills.

So with Soph slightly heart broken, we headed back to the hostel to try and clean off all the sand stuck to us. Somehow no matter how clean we get or how many showers we have, our daily changed sheets become more suited to finishing off a triple jump contest than a place for us to sleep. On the way back though, we grabbed a pizza from a take away pizza van just by the hostel. Now usually we try to stick to local foods when eating out. But for a large pizza for less than £2.50, we struggle to find a reason not to indulge.

This evening we had a couple of bevvies in a reggae bar that is always packed out when we walk past it on our way back from dinner. With so many people going there, we thought we had to try find out what all the fuss is about. It also happened to have the Arsenal game on. It just seemed like a normal bar with nothing particularly special going on, so we left to get some food. On our way back it had a live band and some fire breathing acrobats spraying flames from their mouths. Brilliant.

So tonight after buying some new glasses and getting two scoops of the world’s most expensive ice cream, we are packing our bags for our next destination. We have a 2 hour taxi ride to Phuket airport to meet our friend Sam Hartfield who is coming to visit us for 10 days. I know his dad will be reading this at some point. So Mr Hartfield, we’ll take very good care of your son. Well maybe not very good care, but we’ll do our best.

We have also been made aware that another one of our friends will be joining us from January onwards. Not totally sure if they have told anyone or not yet so we won’t mention any names. But we’re looking forward to their arrival.

So if anybody else fancies packing up their lives and living in the Sun for a few months, please, join us. And bring deodorant. We’ve run out and Soph is really starting to need some…(she’s going to kill me).

Thanks for following x