We got up early and had breakfast, taking all our bags with us. Galaxy Cruises fetched us at 8.35am, running half an hour late. We sat right tat eh back of the bus and our tour guide, Hung, was a young Vietnamese guy that spoke like a drunken turkey. He repeated himself immensely, which helped as we weren't sure what he was saying half the time anyway.

We listened to our music for 1.5 hours and ten taken to an art market for the half way stop off. Edd was concerned that the art in the market would be significantly cheaper than what we'd paid, so wasn't sure if he even wanted to know what everything cost. A pushy Vietnamese woman followed us around, telling us the price of everything, whether we wanted to know or not, and Edd was please that we'd paid over 100 000 Dong less than what they were offering. The woman then argued with us that their artworks were different, I agreed saying 'you're right, ours are bigger and cheaper.' She walked off in a huff as she realised she wasn't going to get any money out of us two. The art market was different, however, it was designed to give Vietnamese people with disabilities a job and income. It was an ingenious idea, even though the cost of everything was geared towards a holidaymaker with excess cash to spare.

After a very long 30-minute stop, we got back on the bus and drove another 2 hours to the harbour. We jumped off and were herded to a small boat, being told it was very important to put our life jackets on for safety reasons. The lifejacket was about 8 sizes too big for me with the zippers rusted off. I wasn't sure how they were going to save us if we got thrown overboard: they'd pop right off!

The small boat took us to the cruise ship and we all got on, climbing the stairs in the middle of the bottom deck to get to the dining room. Edd and I had booked a premium room on this floor, so wanted to take our bags up with us, but were instructed to come back and fetch them once we had our room key. We were given watermelon juice that was disgusting and no one drank it. After being briefed, we got our room key: 205, at the end of the passage on the right, again! He also explained that there was a problem wit the door, so we had to use the key instead of swiping the card.

Edd went downstairs to fetch our bags and I walked off to our room. I put the key in and tried to turn it: it didn't budge; I turned it the other way: again, nothing. I walked back to the dining room and told Hung that I couldn't get into the room. He asked me if I'd used the key (after being told that was the only way to get it), I relied with 'no, it never occurred to me.' Edd was coming upstairs having heard the conversation, laughing. We all walked down the passage and watched Hung turn the key, use the card and then eventually shoulder barge the door open. Edd stated, 'oh, shoulder? You said to use the key.' He showed us the bottle of wine and fruit that were placed next to our bed, for the inconvenience of having to use our shoulders to open the door, and left.

We had our own bathroom, king sized bed and then to top it all off.. a balcony! We realised we'd been upgraded to the honeymoon suite and were ecstatic that we could sit at the back of the boat and sneakily drink our gin and tonic in private, outside.

We had an enormous lunch served, with me getting a few of my own plates as they were catering for my 'no meat' food preference and fish allergy. At 3.30pm we set off on the smaller boat again to go kayaking. I was in front with the camera looped into my life jacket and Edd sat at the back, which meant I spent a lot of my time rowing alone, not able to see what he was doing. We kayaked through a narrow cave, into a lagoon on the other side. It was a peaceful experience and we made a loop and headed back, to explore a different cave and lagoon. The second lagoon had an opening on the opposite end, so we could kayak around it back to the floating kayak shop. We spotted 3 jellyfish, but weren't sure if they were dead or alive; we'd read about the issues with litter in the bay and had spotted milk cartons, soya sauce bottles and areas of disintegrating toilet paper, so anything was possible.

We got back to our cruise ship and headed upstairs to tan on the roof. We started chatting to 2 girls from Melbourne about the city and which areas were good to buy a house in. They told us about the best banks, mobile network providers, suburbs and rules of the road, to name but a few. We told them about our secret stash of booze, and they joined us for a pre-dinner glass of wine. We drank our complimentary bottle, which ended up being enough for 2 glases and 2 mouthfuls each; it was good wine though, but short lived, so we continued to the box red.

We sat with the British couple and the Melbourne girls at dinner and chatted over another buffet of food. Everyone agreed to come back to our balcony and chat and drink, as the British couple had bought a bottle of vodka from one of the boat ladies that they'd decanted into a water bottle and were adding to their cans of coke when the staff weren't looking.

The British guy had brought a pack of cards with him, and the 6 of us sat on the balcony, drinking sneakily playing cards. The Melbourne girls went to bed at 10.30pm with the British couple leaving at about 11pm - they'd drunk the entire bottle of vodka and were going to feel a bit under the weather the next day! We'd had a great evening though and went to bed looking forward to the next day's events.