hello! It is Boxing Day and we've caught the boat into town - today is Nick's last day with us (boo) and we've just waved him off on the boat to Phuket from where he's flying back to Manchester. Bye Nick! Christmas Day on Toh Ko resort was pretty fabulous, it involved a late start after some xmas eve excess (more on that later), followed by breakfast on the beach - some dolphins even came out to play! Nick got up a bit earlier than us and got a pressie from Santa's sack - a pair of plastic earrings. After that we sunbathed and played in the sea. In the afternoon we held a sand castle competition - all were excellent but the unofficial winner was of course Richard Bateson's ambitious Inca Civilisation, closely followed by Lisa and Wade's speedboat, inspiring quote of the day from Ben "why'd you take the dick off the boat dude?" (I believe there is a photo which will explain this....). Ben is the nicest and most un-rufflable (made up word) person in the world. He spends all day running the place, and all night manning the bar. He is the only person I've met to use the word 'gnarly' in daily conversation and hanging around with him and Scott is a bit like being in Point Break. All sentences will contain at least one of the following words - dude, man, brother, bro, cool... Ben spent the whole of Christmas Day in a Santa costume (pretty toasty) and also Christmas Eve night where he served everyone turkey and mash and gravy in the bar followed by buckets galore. Buckets of drink I mean, like the ones in Koh Pha Ngan - it seems they are a Thai staple. As is serving everything with Red Bull (often with disastrous consequences - thai red bull is not like other red bull). Christmas Eve was also an amazing full moon which may explain some of the lunatic behaviour in the bar. Or was that again down to the red bull....
Christmas Eve daytime we took a trip to the beach from the Beach, very pretty, followed by some snorkelling in the coral reefs and then we sailed past where they get the bird's nests from for bird's nest soup. Made of bird spit apparently. But excellent for your virility. Yum!
Our time in Toh Ko has certainly opened our eyes to the local wildlife, at night time the beach is full of crabs, and once a snake, and our bungalow is home to several varieties of ant, geckos, moths, mozzies, a cockroach and (to quote ricardo) a bee the size of a CAR (sadly no longer with us). Sadly we are leaving all this excitement behind tomorrow to catch a boat to Koh Lante for a few days, before heading on to Koh Lipe for NYE. busy busy busy!
HappyChristmas to you all and lots of love XXX
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my relatives on my mom's side of the family tried to make me eat it. i think i had the same problem at the time i heard it was bird spit. but for the sake of health, I am now taking it regularly.
btw, i don't buy the super-expensive kind like old people do. the ready-to-drink kind at the stores are pretty affordable. (e.g. www.geocities.jp/hongkong_bird_nest/index_e.htm)
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