Alright FINE, I guess I owe everyone an update.
In my defense, Koh Tao is a little like Groundhog Day. Wake up, teach diving, have a beer, eat dinner, watch some tv, go to bed. Not much new to report on that front. The "busy season" has been slower than everyone expected. Maybe from the government nonsense, maybe from the economy, maybe from the fact that its been raining a lot? No idea, but its certainly not overwhelming.
But that's alright, because we're gonna be changing things up a lot and moving around a bit! There's a lot of weird things going on with immigration... they're trying to crack down on people working illegally (cough cough who would do THAT?). Our visas run out at the end of August and since its just gotten too complicated, we're going to run away! We've already made plans to go home. We're flying out of Bangkok September 12th and going to England for ten days! Mike hasn't been home in a long time and I haven't ever been to England so BOOM. Party time. Then we're wandering back over to Florida!!! Thennnnnn we don't know whats happening. Haha... life is confusing and hard sometimes. I'm really excited to go home... it's been way too long and I've been getting homesick, I need some Florida time. We're not sure how long we'll be home for, that's open ended for the time being. At least a couple of weeks, hopefully!!
But the problem we're encountering is what to do between end of visa time and London... we've got about two weeks between point A and point B. Since the visa people are cracking down, we kinda need to leave the country or else we'll get slammed with overstay fees.
Sooooo the burning question is.... Bali or the Philippines?????? It's a very tough call to make, and its going to come down to which one is cheaper. Bali has manta rays and maybe mola mola (ocean sunfish) and beautiful reefs. The Philippines have thresher sharks and maybe manta rays and beautiful reefs. HOW CAN I BE FORCED TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS? Any ideas?
Thats all for now! Hopefully this blog will be getting a lot more exciting!
Love and fishes!
