Early start again as we had our activity day at sea today. Grabbed a quick coffee and omelette then met at reception for our pick up. We drove for about 35 mins and picked up one young Russian lad then carried on to the marina. We were kitted out with wetsuits for this diving and I had brought my own mask and fins. I didn’t take mine yesterday and the mask hurt the bridge of my nose and is still hurting and the find rubbed my big toe. I’m going to start bringing my own all the time so I get used to them and they won’t hurt.
Straight into the boat and everyone had breakfast. We just had a coffee as we weren’t hungry.
Me and Eddie managed to grab ourselves a space at the front of the boat on the sun deck as most people hadn’t spotted it when we got on as the ladders were round the front.
Once we were out at sea the first activity was the scuba diving. I forgot to tell him I had done my open water so he had hold of me and this other guy by the arm for the first metre or so then I ended up just pulling away and signalling to him that I was okay. I could get my buoyancy right though because he hadn’t let all the air out so I kept floating back up. I only realised part way through the dive. I think I am going to do some dives at home if there is a place you can go so I can get some more practice in. Then next time me and Layla go away we can just be our own buddies. When you have an instructor trying to keep you all together it makes it less relaxing. I just prefer to glide along at my own pace not constantly being corralled together and having to swim loads to keep up etc. I like to take it all in. Yesterday was better cos we just drifted along with the schools of fish it felt really peaceful.
After the diving those wanting to snorkel were in the water. Eddie did that but I wasn’t bothered as you could see much from the surface really.
Next was lunch which was a Luke warm fish soup (not many people ate it but I didn’t mind it). Then it was various salads, potatoes, rice and chicken. Pretty much what we have at the hotel lol. Even though the food hasn’t been great on the holiday I did catch myself when we were on the deck and reminded myself how lucky we are. Yes the foods not what I would have loved but we should be grateful that we are in Egypt on holiday and not at home in the cold. Not everyone gets chance to have a week in the sun in December. So I thank my blessings for every day I get to experience something like this.
After lunch we pulled anchor (get me with the lingo lol) and love to another area where we were met by a small speedboat dingy thing and we all get a quick turn on the inflatables being pulled by the boat. We did the sofa thing cosI wasn’t keen on the banana thing cos thought we’d get thrown off but as it happens they went pretty slow for everyone. After those the at wanted to got chance to go up on the parasail behind the boat. I was a random thing but lucky for me Tam (a girl I was paired with) was a hit heavier than me and our combined weight had to be below 150kg or sommat sp I got to do mine on my own :-)
After that we went to a point were there was a chance to seeDolphins and pick for us two came to meet the boat and swam along side us for a bit then were right in front of the boat for ages. I love dolphins and felt so lucky to see them so close as it’s never something they can guarantee.
Then it was time to head back to the marina. You can’t complain about the value for money for that trip it was £60 and we got to do so much we didn’t get back until 4pm So it was a full day.
Back at the hotel we went to the snack bar with Tam & Graham for a chicken burger as we knew the restaurant food would be the same as usual so better to eat something to fill a gap.
We had a siesta for an hour or so then got ready for dinner. There was chicken fillets slices tonight so had that with veg and then managed to get WiFi on reception for a bit. Defo buy one of the dongles if you get the chance from your rep cos it makes a bit of difference being able to get online when it’s so bad a signal in most areas. I defo won’t take super fast reliable WiFi for granted when I get home. Our eening outfits only managed about 2 hours on show o thought we better get a pic lol.
Few drinks (of soda) in the bar before having an early night. Be good not to have anything planned for tmrw (except another massage at 11am). So we can just chill tmrw.
Oh and I still need to banjo that woman about the oriental reservation, she wasn’t there tonight.
Sorry if this reads giberish but still no specs so typing it blind.