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We woke up to boiling hot sunshine! The hotel we were staying at had a pool so after breakfast we headed straight there. There was all of three sun beds between the 5 of us but we made it work. We had an underwater competition and I won! I was very chuffed with myself! In all fairness, my dad has been 'training' me to hold my breath underwater for as long as possible since the age of about 4 when I could barely swim during our holidays away. That definitely came in handy! We hired mopeds out after lunch and set off towards the main town on Long Beach. We saw a cafe on the way which caught our eye selling fried ice cream! None of us had ever tried that before so thought we'd stop off and give it a go. I'm very glad we did as it was incredible. It was a scoop of chocolate chip ice cream deep fat fried in batter. You only had one scoop but that was enough. They also let us try all the different flavoured ice creams which was fun! We then carried on towards the shops. We parked up, had a little wonder around the markets and bought dinner in the night market. I had chicken on a stick in some sweet sauce, and a coconut pancake which was really good! We wanted to go out for drinks later in the evening so we headed back to the hotel which took about 25 minutes, had a mixed fruit daiquiri cocktail at the beach bar and one for the road, then strolled back to the room to get ready. Poor Lindsey was ready an hour before us girls so just sat there and drank shaking his head in disbelief over how long it took us! We caught a taxi into the main bit where all the bars were but it just seemed so quiet everywhere. We weren't in peak season so that would make sense. The first bar we went to, 'Funky Monkey' looked like it had the most atmosphere but was full of mainly old men! We thought we'd have a few more drinks at other bars and then come back later. The other bars were also quiet and quite expensive too. I even managed to haggle money off both mine and Sarah's drinks...who do I think I am?! We played a few games of pool at one of the bars and they made us lots of French fries which went down a treat! Sarah and I were on the same team, we lost one, and won one too! I was rubbish though! We headed back to funky monkey but we had all had enough by that point as it was 2 am and there was just no atmosphere anywhere so we headed back to the hotel. We thought we would just sit and use some of the wifi in the pool area before bed. Lindsey ended up jumping in the pool and losing his glasses so Masa jumped in after him to help. I was sat on the edge of the pool looking the other way, when Masa came up behind me and pulled me in fully dressed! We all ended up practicing flips and other acrobatic stuff off Lindsey which was hilarious! I again, was rubbish! We were in there for at least an hour and were being so loud so I wasn't surprised when a lady came out and told us off! We all started giggling like school children, quickly got out and ran back to the room, still giggling! Such a great ending to the night!
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