Happy birthday Dave! Dave’s birthday or La as I call him so it must be May the 8th. I had got him a ring and some earrings from a lovely silver shop near the hotel. He was still full of a cold and not a 100%.
Jo and I said that he could choose where to eat and he chose the snitzel house. This has been here for years.
Had a nice day walking the beach up to OP bungalows and sitting watching the world go by. Went back to the hotel and Jo paid for Dave to have a massage for his birthday. Back at the room the hotel had given him a cake nice touch but it was all butter icing and neither of us has particularly sweet tooth so we end up sneaking it in to bins all over to avoid offending anyone.
Went out that night and had a good meal and then went to the Star caberet where we made it known to the staff that it was Daves birthday. The had him dressed up as a woman and backstage where the partially stripped him and placed big red kisses all over him. I laughed so much that I thought that I was going to have a stroke.
We had had a really good night.
We made arrangements to pick up a car for a couple of days we could find somewhere to move on to and we could show Jo around Samui.
After another day of beaching and walking Jo went to sort out some glasses. We went out for something to eat and ended up in the wave a great little bar with fab owners.
We decided to go back to the hotel and on our way back a very enthusiastic (hum!) bar girl came rushing out screaming WEL—COME!!!, WEL----COME, HELLO. We looked at each other and went well just one. 3 hours later and numerous drinks Dave shimming up the pole ‘cos he offered the girls 100 baht for the first one up and they all declined! We staggered out leaving Jo there.
In the morning I though oh my God what if something happened to her I could just imagine her mother beating a path to our door.
Turns out she had pulled. Now I am not going to go in to details here as it is a public forum but get this. A lass from Lancashire in the UK pulls a guy from Lancashire in the UK in girlie bar in Thailand. Bet the girls in the bar were pissed off, who pays the bar fine on that one then!
It was another 3 in the afternoon for Jo again the next day.
Fun catching up with the details though.
Can’t remember what else we did that day. So engrossed with the news!
We picked the car up and did the bottom of the island Lamai, lipa noi etc. We laughed and laughed about things that are much too rude to repeat here.
We went to Tesco Lotus and this time without the personal shopper. That night we went to starfish and coffee in fishermans village. We have been before and we have also stayed there for a few days but I realised this time I don’t like it.
Back for an earlyish night.
Up and out and did the other way round the island visiting Maenam big Buddha etc. We got a blessing for a monk. I like big Buddha I like the shops etc they are a bit different. That night we went to Lamai to eat at salathai. Nice meal as it usually is. Went back to Wave.
Car went back today.
Dave had lost the room key and we had to get another they left us without one for 3 days and each time we wanted to get back in we had to go back to reception. They wanted 1,000 baht to replace it and I told them to go take a hike and we settled on 500.
Now let me tell you about Kate Winslet. There was this bloody infuriating woman who had done everything that you had with bells on. She knew every hotel and bar/ restaurant owner on the island. If you paid 100 baht for something she only paid 50. You know the sort you have all met them. She had visited she said in the same year that we first had 9 years ago. According to her there were no roads then !!!! I don’t remember that. Any way her husband was called Jack and all you could hear round the pool was Jack, Jack, Jack. Dave said she’s like bloody Kate Winslet in Titanic.
I love sitting round the pool with a cool drink – book - all relaxed and slagging folk off.
I can be a nice person sometimes. How boring is that.

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