It was lovely seeing Alison again in person after whatsapping almost daily for 7 and a half months since she left Buenos Aires. We headed back to the villa to put her bags down and jumped straight into the pool, it was now around 10.30pm on Friday evening and she had left work on Thursday and headed straight to Heathrow to catch her flight.
We had a good catch up and chat and headed to bed.
Saturday was an interesting day as for some of us it was the usual pool, lunch and beach but for Mum, Pete and Adam they had a little hospital visit to deal with in the morning. Adam had started to complain of a pain in both of his ears and on Saturday morning under the advice the villa owner the three of them jumped in a taxi and headed to the hospital. A few hours later they were back having spent £115 seen a doctor, got antibiotics and ear drops and had the best most efficient trip to a hospital of their lives, they were raving about the place, anyone would think they had come back from a 5 star luxury spa! Anyway at least the crisis was sorted and Adam would have 5 days to get his ears better before the flight home and dad could relax and stop panicking he wouldn't be able to fly.
We headed to the beach in the afternoon and Pete saw lots of fish.
That evening to went to Phsiri Thai restaurant and had yellow curry which was delicious, even dad had one!
Sunday morning we were all up and ready to go at 7.30 as we had another trip booked to Ang Thong National Park. At 9am after several stressful phone calls the minivan had found us in the jungle and we were on our way.
We boarded a speedboat and headed towards the national park.
Our first activity of the day was snorkelling. We jumped off the boat into the ocean and saw some beautiful coral and hundreds of fish. Peter took some great underwater videos.
Mum, Nathan and Pete swam into a little cave and saw so many fish but I can't deal with caving or anything like that so I stayed watching all the fish on the ocean floor.
We got back on the boat and sailed around the beautiful islands which are totally untouched and will hopefully stay that way now they have national park status.
Our next stop was a little island where we climbed up to view point and could look over the many islands dotted about and also down to a beautiful blue lagoon!
Again it was boiling hot!
After lunch we headed to do some sea kayaking however Alison and I were so hot we just jumped in and floated about in the boat. Here is Dad in the sea.
The boys all went on one sea kayak together with Pete and Nathan paddling and Adam sitting in the middle getting ferried about.
Mum and Dad were hilarious. Mum got on first on what she thought was the front. Then dad got on where he thought the front was so ended up with them sitting back to back on a kayak! Once they sorted that out they were great paddling around.
We arrived back to the main land in the early evening and headed to the night market for dinner.
It was a great experience as everyone could go to the stall they wanted and ordered their food and sit down with it.
Adam had an absolutely massive milkshake!
Dad was loving the £1.50 cocktails.
Monday was a lovely relaxing day filled with pool and beach time. In the evening we went for dinner in a lovely little restaurant in the fisherman's village.
Tuesday and Wednesday were lovely days, swimming, spending time with the family and Alison and generally relaxing and having lovely food.
On Thursday morning we all had to say goodbye. I had such a lovely 2 weeks I didn't want to leave everyone. I am so grateful that my entire family came out to Thailand to visit, it was so amazing having a family holiday. I'm especially grateful as it was my parents first long haul flight so it really means a lot that they came all that way to see us. Spending 2 weeks with Mum, Dad, Peter and Adam has made me even more excited for my summer in London.
Ps - super grateful that Dad took my backpack home and brought out my small backpack and that Mum and Dad between them carried 10kg of my clothing home! Family are the best!!