That evening, Steven and Marc had dinner on the beach with the rest of the group (with some amazing barbecued seafood!) and Gareth and Amy went off for a romantic Valentines Day meal!
After the meal, we stayed on the beach for drinks.
We moved from the restaurant to a bar a few hundred yards up the beach. After we'd been there a while, the sky decided to put on a lightning show for us! It was strange though, because there was no thunder, no rain just lightning. We all pulled up plastic chairs on the shore and sat watching the sky. After we got bored, we headed back inside the bar, and almost immediately, the thunder and the rain caught up with the lightening and there was a torrential downpour. Apparently it was the first time the locals had seen rain in months! The bar obviously wasn't set up for the rain, as we were ankle deep in water! As we were getting wet anyway, we moved the party outside!
At the end of the night, we headed off to find a tuk tuk to take us back to the hotel. When we couldn't find one, we took the only other option - motorbike taxis! These were soo much fun, but Steven lost his flip flops on the journey!
When we arrived back at the hotel, we had to wake up about six of the hotel staff who were sleeping on the floor in reception. Very strange.
The next morning, we had to get up at 8am for a boat trip to some islands. We were all quite hungover. Steven started leaving the hotel room barefoot, and was like 'oh, I haven't got my flip flops on... wait, I HAVEN'T GOT ANY FLIP FLOPS!!' so spent the rest of the day barefoot. Lucky we were just on a boat trip.
We did a bit of snorkeling, then headed to an island to relax on the beach and eat some more barbecue food.
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