Same same this morning………..slept like 9 hours (it’s crazy how much we are sleeping here!).  Rob and I walked down a bit to a coffee shop for some coffee- it was just ok.  This whole island seems to have one industry- tourism.  The population is 2,700 but there are about 5,000 tourists on island any given day.  The next island over is know for their parties and Koh Tao is mellower because there are so many dive companies.  Hard to party after a day of diving!

 We were on a smaller boat today- which was ok, as our dive sites were not to far away.  Maybe a 20 minute ride.  We have done all our dives with Jason from Planet Dive- they were a fantastic dive company, very professional and good equipment.

Zach and I were buddies and Max and Rob were buddies today.  Incident free dives.  Mae is really not feeling well- seems to be a bad cold.  She snorkeled with a young couple from Germany on a gap year after graduation from high school last year.  Mae always had someone from the dive shop snorkeling with her- it is their policy and made us feel better about her being by her self.  She loved it-

Our dives were about 45 min each, after we’d unloaded and washed all our gear went to a little cafe for a late lunch.  It’s actually hard to find Thai food on the island as so many of the shops cater to backpackers who want their comfort food- burgers, fries, pancakes………

Hung our by the pool for a couple hours.  The hotel seems to be filling up- when we arrived maybe 4 other guests (looks like the hotel has about 40 rooms).  Lots of people in the pool today.  Rob and I both fell asleep by the pool.

Kids wanted to stay in their room and vedge- so Rob and I walked into town for dinner.  It was soooooooo hot!  A ferry arrived and about 300 people swarmed the area- the ferry area fills up with waiting trucks/taxi’s for the 3X a day ferry arrivals.  Hundreds of backpackers arrive daily- not to many travelers our age.  But some-

Went to 7-11 and these gruesome cigarette packages were behind the counter.  The whole front shows real pictures of mouth and throat cancer.  Wish we had these in US – might be a deterrent for some people!