afternoon/morning/evening all!!!!

since we last updated we are now open water padi certified divers,i had my first taste of thai fighting and we are browner!!! lots done.

we did our final 2 dives the other day and they were better then the first 2. we dived down to a detoh of 20m(even though it was only ment to be 18m) and saw loads of sea snakes,lion fish,clown fish,parrot fish,an octopuss, moray eels and loads of amazingly bright coloured fish and coral. there are normally leopard sharks round this area but today or yesterday we didnt see them, we also didnt see any turtles which again come round that area!!!! bloody things!!!! but none the less it was amazing. we didnt want to get out on the last dive(that was both our favourites) we saw through an arch in the reef and it was perfect. we also went into maya bay.they place were the film the beach was filmed. it was amazing but full of tourists!!!

after the dive we went back had a sleep and then got ready and went out to have dinner with our dive instructor called cole. he is a very nice bloke who coems from bath/bristol. we had a bloody great pizza and then a few beers. after tea we wnet across to the reggea bar. this is prob the biggest bar on the island and the livliest. after a few beers i decided i fancied a go at the thai boxign on offer. there is a ring in the middle of the bar and if you fight against someone you get a free bucket of drink. so i gave it a go. i put on the shorts and wiated for a bout 15 mins then went up to fight. i had to wear boxing gloves and a head guard as did the person i was fighting. i had hannah cole and another diving instrutor in my corner, so felt good if not a little merry. first round went ok and think i had the better of it, got a few nice punchs in and took a fair few. but was nackard as first type of exercise in a while. the second started and had the better of him again but then we tummbled to the floor. the ref jumped in to make us stand up but the cheeky b***** gave me a cheeky jab whils i was gettin up, and then another.......so i hit him back. from there it basically turned to a pub brawl and the ref stopped the fight and called it a draw(i think i would have done him) and then the crowd booed as i think they wanted it to carry on.!!! i sportingly ran over to him picked him up and carried him round the ring and again was nackard :-) i walked of ring and drank my free bucket of drink!!! very nice. i was a little sore and wet but stayed for a bit. annah kindly took care of me and tucked me in bed as we got home.....ahhh bless her.

the next day we woke up and i couldnt walk on my left leg,my top lip was huge,top f my nose swollen and generally aching!!! so i was have disabed and on top of that hannah's right ear was getting worse, we now no its swimmers ear and seems to be very painfull. she is on tablets to stop it as well as ear drops. so we hobbled round koh phi phi for the day chilled out and ate food. perfect way to relax.

the last 2 days we just been chilling on the beach in the sun and improving our tans. in the evenings we have been watching the movies on offer in the bars around and enjoying phi phi. we saw a ;ive reggea band last night who were brilliant, they played on the beach.

i am just about healed and hannah hopefully is on the mend. hopefully will be sorted before we go to aus. shouldnt be a problem. well take care all and speak very soon xxxx