Prt 2
Day 2.
Up early for breakfast. Don't want to be last in the queue. Apparently they serve breakfast from 7.30 am so make sure hubby and kids are up at 6.30 am. It's a bit tight in the bathroom, perhaps rooms 603 & 604 were a better option after all, oh well at least we'll get the sun this afternoon. Still a bit dark outside, I think it's something to so with being close to the equator or something. Apparently there is less sun?
A few pills, another litre of Rasberry Juice and down to breakfast and we are the first ones there, it's 7.29. Nobody seems to be serving us. In fact there is nobody but us. Get Hubby to hold our place in the queue whilst I go to reception. Have a quick chat with the half asleep chap, can't understand much of what he is saying. Why don't they learn to speak English? You would have thought everyone would be speaking English these days? Manage to have enough of a conversation and get the general gist of what is going on. DOH! DOH! What am I going to say to Hubby? He will freak out when he realizes it is only 4.30 am. Should have put my watch back on the plane but totally forgot. Oh well, we can put our towels out to get a good spot. Back to restaurant, hubby is in a chair and fast asleep. Best just leave him.
Back up to room and get towels, kids are back in bed fast asleep. Down to pool and it's seems a bit noisy. A couple are in the pool canoodling. Disgusting! Won't want to swim tomorrow for fear of picking up some unwanted body fluids. Dump towels on loungers. Back to room and must have fallen asleep because the next thing I know it's 9.00am. Bugger, breakfast only goes for another half an hour. Grab kids and down to restaurant.
Restaurant is packed, hubby is still asleep in chair at a table but he is now surrounded by a Dutch family eating their breakfast. They are oblivious to his snoring. Go over and wake him up. He's not happy at all. Nine banana pancakes for breakfast and hubby had twelve. YUM YUM!! Banana pancakes. Not sure how to describe them, they are kind of like a pancake with banana flavour that may or may not come from real bananas. Kids had coco pops and sausages. The sausages don't taste like Australian ones. Perhaps they have meat in them? Tell kids to take some sausages with them. No need for lunch Today!! Brilliant!
Need to start shopping today. Have a large list to get through. First need to change more money. Back up the road and see beady eyed man staring at me. He gives me the creeps so decide not to change money with him. Wander up and down for about two hours and end up back with beady eyed man. I think I'm getting conned because the rate is different to yesterday. Tell hubby and he starts going on about international foreign exchange markets and how some chap in New York trading US dollars for German Deutschmarks can affect how many rupees beady eyed man can give me. Clearly too much sun for Hubby.
Anyway, must tell you something hysterical. Well not hysterical really but strange. Turns out that beady eyed man actually has beads for eyes!!! I was chatting to an ex-pat in a bar one night and beady eyed man came up in the conversation. Well you won't believe it, but, apparently years ago he had an accident with a popcorn machine and both his eyes fell out. So now it's glass beads instead of eyes. Imagine! Won't be scared of him in future. Wonder how he counts the money?
So take my list of DVDs to that place where Made works on Poppies I. Give him the list. He tells me he may not be able to get all 423 DVDs. Hmmm, not as good as everyone says he is. I tell him that if he cant get Dirty Dancing then not to bother getting any of them. Rent a DVD player from him for about $30 for the week and shuffle back to the hotel. Can't make DVD player work, spend rest of morning pushing buttons and fiddling with cables. Hubby and kids don't seem to care as are lounging by the pool. This could totally ruin the holiday if I can't watch DVDs so I take the DVD player back to the shop but Made is not there, there is another chap but he says he is also called Made! Must be some sort of tax dodge. Anyway, DVD player number two and back to the hotel.
So hungry from all the walking need a quick lunch so go to Maccas. Pills & Juice - note to buy more juice. Hubby has a Big Mac with a chocolate milkshake and large fries. He seems to think there are fewer fries than we get at home in a large serve. Count fries and there are 69 (how funny!!), will remember to check the number back home. There is something funny about the milkshake, definitely not the same as home. Kids eat chicken nuggets and chips and I have the Fillet O'Fish because I am determined to lose a few kilos this holiday and also because I want to eat some of the local seafood. Wow, it comes to almost 200,000 rupees. That is pretty much the same as in Australia!!! I thought it was supposed to be cheaper here? Worse still, when I try to pay, some spotty teenager tells me that they don't accept Thai Baht. Perhaps Beady Eyed Man should consider a different career.
Right, must get the kids hair braided so they can make the most of it whilst on holiday. It takes all afternoon and only cost 100,000 rupees. WOW WOW. AMAZING!!! WOW! So hubby thinks Narelle looks fine but he reckons Jason looks like a poof. Jason starts crying. I tell him to start acting more like the nineteen year old he is, and not like his twelve year old sister. Jason desperately tries to get his hair back to normal but ends up pulling chunks of hair out. Back to braiding woman. 200,000 to get Jason's braids removed. Not so much of a bargain now and Jason looks like he's on his way to a 70's disco night with crimped hair. Back to the hotel, I wave to beady eyed man as we pass but he just stares.
..... perhaps part three sometime soon