Happy Birthday Kendra

Lets all collectively wish Kendra a Happy Birthday! She's finally old enough to drink beer around the world, 21, Congrats ;) Still don't know why she hooked up with me, I'm like 7 years older than she is.

You will all be happy to know that Kendra is, at this very moment, enjoying a fine day of massage, aromatherapy, aloe vera wraps, and other strange things that make people feel pampered, at the Jamahkiri Spa & Resort (I'm especially jealous of the hot shower). The spa is amazing, on top of a hill overlooking a bay, great views while they treat you like a movie star. Check out the photos.

Thats the resort but if you want to get even more jealous (like me) check out the link.


The Birthday Girl right before the royal treatment, she looks happy.

Later on its dinner and a sunset.
So "Happy Birthday Kendra!"

As for Koh Tao, it has been so nice to us here we decided to stay for a month, thats right. We rented a small, but homey, room near the beach and will enjoy the following weeks by hitting the beach, doing some diving and enjoying what the island has to offer, should be great. Unfortunately that makes our photos kind of repetative as we won't have a bunch of different and exotic things to show you.

So in lieu of new and exotic things, for those of you who are interested on what its like to dive here in Koh Tao, I thought I'd put together some snapshots of heading out on a dive.


1) Start out at the shop (thats not us in the water, but thats where we learned)


2) Pile into the transport to the pier (we're close to the beach but not the peir)


3) Scramble over a couple of boats trying not to slip off into oblivion (its happened I've seen it...actually I've seen it on the video that the shop gives to everybody after your first dive. Maybe they include it to scare the crap out of everybody so they won't fall. So far its worked, but really its not that dangerous parents, really, look how well she's poised to jump the gap 5m over the water between the boats...oh I mean, its not dangerous...crap, this isn't going well.)


4) Put your equipment together (don't screw up or you won't be able to breath underwater!)


5) Jump off the side of the boat holding on to all equipment (don't screw up again, everyone is watching!)

6) Due to lack of underwater camera, there is very little that I can show you of what happens in a dive, however, picture fighting off sharks, dodging stingrays, and running out of air, and thats almost exactly what its like...


7) After the dive enjoy a nice ride back to the shore with some of your divemates (No more farmers tan!)


8) Enjoy a nice sunset and regail the near death shark attack experience with other great story tellers who lie equally as well.

There you have it a dive on Koh Tao in a nutshell. I'd better hurry back and pick up Kendra for the rest of her Birthday.

Cheers,
Mike