Marina Resort

Our new hotel/resort is nice... but in a different way to the last one. This one is packed full of Euros! Everyone is from Germany or Denmark etc. At the pool all the chairs have been 'reserved' by Euros - they put their towels there and then wander off for hours. So when we first went to the pool all the chairs were taken, but there was nobody around - in the pool or out of it. Very strange.
We have a little house/room, a bit like a cabin in a caravan park up on a hill that overlooks the beach --> that is view I have out of our window. Everything is really spaced out at this resort but in a good way. You have to walk down this wooden walkway through the trees to get to the beach and the pool and the restaurants. There are some kind of monkey that runs around all over the place in the trees. It looks a bit like a possum, and there are lots of lizards and frogs. This morning I was going to reception from our room and Chris said "Look!". I thought he was showing me another lizard or something, but it was a baby elephant! He was just standing there next to reception with his owner who was feeding him bananas. I patted him and then we went back to our room to get him the complementary bananas that were left in our room. He mashed up the whole hand of them and ate them. He was really cute.

Last night we went to Muay Thai Boxing. There isn't that much boxing though - mainly kicks, elbows and knees. I thought it was quite good. Basically the rules are that you can fight however you like, but you can't hit/kick the back of the head. It sounds much worse than it really is though. I thought there'd be blood and everything, but there wasn't any and not one KO either. There were 7 fights, starting with 12 year olds, and then 14 year olds, 16 year olds, 19 year olds and up to an international fight between an Aussie (who was crap and lost) and an Thai. On Sat there is Lady Muay Thai, between the champion, an English lady, and a Thai, but Chris doesn't want to go again :( Cheryl, I think that could be a new sport for you! You would have abs of steel!

Basically apart from that we have just been sitting by the pool and drinking delicious Mango or Watermelon shakes. It is mango (or watermelon) blended with ice and sugar syrup. It's sooo yummy. It's super hot and humid in the middle or the day though so we try to stay in the air con.