Hey there, well we decided to get back onto an island after our one night on dry land in Hat Yai, which is where we caught the train from to get to Malaysia's crossing, and we again went against out vow yet again on crossing a border on the weekend but it was ok, nice and easy, a llot easier than I was getting dragged out of bed at 6am and running, with backpack on (this should be an olympic sport by the way) to catch a train which left an hour late (nice!). The train stank to be truthful of pee and the occasional waft of man puff from Aarons bottom which he was doing in his sleep loudly much to the amusement of some local Muslims! It was funny to see the change in religion as you went south, then crossing into Malaysia and it was full on Muslim saris and all, it was lovely, very colourful and not what I expected. TYhe beer on the other hand went through the roof, so much so that we went on the wagon for the full time on the island, it was probably a good thing we did it, Aarons tummy is swelling at mph!

Here we met a lovely couple named Bobby and Lydia, we only met them because we were all being mingebags and trying to haggle down the price of a snorkelling tour, which we did and went on it all together! It wasn't a sucessful day snorkelling, we went to Shark point, Turtle point and a couple of others, none of them showing us what they were named after, not sure if this was a good thing though with the Shark Point, Bobby did cut his finger on coral and we threatend to throw him in as bait so we could all get that all important picture of a shark to show you guys at home, granted it would have been mid swallow on poor Bobbys leg! Stupidy me and Aaron really didn't get it into our thick heads that Malaysia was going to be much hotter and the sun much stronger (something to do with the equator, really should have listened in Mr Blaggs Geography class, but the bad B.O was really off putting and by the end of school I thought Newcastle was next to London!) So we went out with our factor 8 (I know my dads going to kill me) and burnt like sausages on a bbq (just like the one we'll be having for xmas dinner), it wasn't until later that night when we were on fire and itching that we realised that we hadn't just caught a bit of the sun, but the sun had focused on just us two out of the whole world all day with the intention of making us peel and loose our lovely tans! We peeled 3 days later. So we spent our second and last day in the shade, then begging people to carry our bags becuase we couldn't bare anything on our backs, we weren't very popular! Oh forgot to menttion the boat ride to and from the island, wowza, Craig would be dead and burried now with his seasickness, the only way to discribe it was a large jet ski, not touching the water all the way there and making our faces do that funny wobbly thing you see in films, when people are clinging to the top of a high speed train or a helicopter, it was 30 minutes or bruised bum for Aaron!