Early August- Thailand with the family

We are in Cambodia now, but while we were in Thailand we caught up with Matt (Stan's brother) and his wife Maree and Ana (Stan's sister) and her husband Simon. We were together in Phuket and on Phi Phi Island. We all met on Phi Phi Island where we did a couple island tours and a day's diving.

On the island tour, we stopped in a lovely lagoon and did some swimming.

Matt, Ana, Maree, Simon and Stan in the photo. Nicole is behind the camera.

We stopped at a Maya bay to do some swimming. This was a lovely beach, but unfortunately the wind was blowing from the main land and we were swimming with a lot of plastic bags.

Maya beach from the water.

Ana and Maree swimming on Maya beach

When leaving Maya beach, we had to walk to the other side of the island and swim back to our boat through a rough current and razor sharp rocks.

Stan getting ready to swim to the boat avoiding the rocks.

All the tourists trying to swim back to their boats.

We got back to Phi Phi Island and relaxed on our balcony. This was the view from our cabin. 

We didn't have the camera for our diving trip unfortunately. We all went diving except for Ana who had injured her ribs in soccer and couldn't handle the pressure under water. Matt and Maree as first time divers did two dives where they went down 12 metres. Stan, Nicole and Simon went down to 18 metres and were underwater for 61 minutes each dive. We saw two turtles the second dive and a massive moray eel (about 3 metres long) swam right under us. Our dive master was quite impressed with us and wanted to take the boat to a more challenging location for our second dive, but none of the other divers wanted to go there. We still had fun in both locations. We will probably start on our "Advanced Open Water" certification on our next holiday.

We also spent some time in Phuket. We didn't pull out the camera much, but we did have a good time relaxing after all our excursions on Phi Phi Island. We went to the cinema and watched "Transformers Dark Side of the Moon" (waste of $3) and the new "Planet of the Apes". We went out one evening and watched a live band play. They were pretty good. After that we had a couple drinks in town where the bar maids challenged us to "connect four" and a game where you hammer nails into a tree trunk with a hammer whose head is about three millimetres thick making it very hard to hit the nail. After a few days in Phuket, we said good bye to the family and returned to Siem Reap.