Courtyard Phuket at Surin Beach

... air, from lazy swimming, and from allowing oneself to sit still for a moment after moving like crazy. I felt a great contentedness and a thankfulness, for being able to experience this happy place; for the lovely, patient and amazing spouse next to me in bed; and for all of our friends and family who given us so much support and encouragement. <br><br>The Greatest Day of the Year (by Maribeth)<br><br>As one gets older they usually seem to enjoy their birthday less and less. I suppose 29 isn ...

... we went to this restaurant called The Green Man. It's this little Pub on the other side of the hill and it had some really good food. but on top of that when we got there it was still happy hour so we all got to changs with dinner. We all downed them and ate and afterwards had a relaxing night on this random playset lol. <br> <br> 5/22 <br> Happy Birthday Duda! So today we left to go on our camping excursion into the mountain. the 19 of us piled onto the bus and drove out ...

... do the same..all the while..sliding along the top rope..This is called sealing off the ring. After I sealed off the ring...I waited in my corner while Mamai did a quick Wai Kru...he didn't do anything elborate..just the traditional 3 bows...no dance with his Wai Kru. Some of the trainers wanted me to do a Wai Kru and a Ram Muay (the Wai Kru is the 3 bows..and the Ram Muay is the ritual dance afterwards)..but I had enough on my mind already without having to perform a ...

... pipe, we then got our hands wrapped and boxing gloves on, before going through 3 rounds in the ring with a trainer, going through kicking, punching, kneeing, elbowing and blocking, between each round dropping and doing 10 push-ups and 20 sit-ups. Beaten and battered, barley able to lift our hands we had another 3 rounds on the punch bags, getting used to the techniques, before finishing with 100 sit-ups and cooling off in the jacuzzi. Unbelievable, in all my years of playing ...

... partially retired Company Director, &amp; Barbara his wife, retired banking manager. Both Barry &amp; Norman have properties in Cyprus and Norman only spends the mandatory 3 months maximum in the UK to comply with tax legislation (ever the accountant). All like minded soles that unfortunately have little time for poor service, bad manners, or worst of all being fobbed off; more on that later. We're on P&amp;Os MV Aurora a 75000 ton ship with approx ...

... decided that I could not possibly take any more of the sun and headed back to the hotel to take a dip in the pool to rinse off. Frank wasn't feeling too well so he had stayed in the room all day and slept mostly. We all layed around some and then decided that we would have a few drinks, grab something to eat, and then head out to the bars. We had nothing else to do and it was Friday night! We noticed that that the streets seemed a lot quieter than usual and ...

... While waiting I tried to squeeze it like squeezing a lemon. =p<br><br><br><br><br><br>We landed on the 007 Island lor ...

... tickets checked". After a few minutes listening to the tourism agent try and offer us "best deals in Phuket" for snorkeling, etc... it became pretty clear that the bus company had an "agreement" with this agency, to bring their customers through for a mandatory stop. When we had all piled back into the bus, everyone on the bus was grumbling about the time-wasted by this stop. Nevertheless, we reached out resort by 4:30pm ...

... filming fights. It's a fine balance between getting good close-ups and getting shots of kicks. Not only that but I'm so far away I have to use the zoom. When the zoom is on, the tiniest movement makes the screen very shaky. I kept myself embroiled with the technical aspects of it all to try not to pay attention when she got hit in the face, kicked in the ribs, etc... The guys in the audience placing bets went crazy ...

... up close. So, tomorrow we are heading on a trip to James Bond Island and Phang Nga Bay to see the hongs and caves. A boat is picking us up right on our beach in the morning, how's that for door to door service!! And also to remind all of you, tomorrow marks the four month countdown to the wedding, dum da dum dum!! Mom are you freaked out yet?!!!!! Anyways, must go and lie around again, we havn't much longer to enjoy this!!1 Lots of love, Joe and Ash xxx