THURSDAY Today we had yet another leisurely start to the morning, and sat on the beach with our books until about 4pm! After our extremely lazy day we thought we had better get some exercise so we walked into Thongsala again and scoped out the shopping possibilities, and went to find some dinner. For a change, we went to a really nice seafood restaurant and Kim had whole steamed sea bass with ginger, and I had mixed seafood noodles. The meal was gorgeous and we...

MONDAY (night) Everyone got together tonight to watch the diving videos. There was some decent footage of our group, but the DVD cost 2,500 Baht, so it was a souvenir I was going to have to do without! After watching the DVD we went out to 'Choppers Bar and Grill' in nearby village Sai ree for dinner, then moved on to Pure bar for apres-dive drinks. We didn't go too mad, as we had to be up for a boat to Koh Phangan in the morning, but we had a good night regard...