Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at home!!! I had the best of intentions of posting something yesterday but it just didn't work out. I hope everyone had a wonderful day and ate lots of turkey for us!!! :) Our Thanksgiving dinner was a bit different... I had fried noodles with vegetables and Chuck had pineapple and chicken with rice. Not the traditional turkey dinner, but still good nonetheless.
After 6 very relaxing days in Koh Tao, I'm happy to report that we are both PADI certified Open Water Divers!!!! We thoroughly enjoyed our diving classes and the dives were amazing! It's so cool being under water with all the fish and seeing all the beautiful colors and coral. We had an awersome instructor, Camilo, who made us feel very comfortable in the water. We completed our 4 required dives (2 at 12 meters and 2 at 18 meters) and on the third, we were very fortunate to see a 3 meter Whaleshark! It was beautiful! It's the largest fish in the ocean and adults can get up to 18 meters long. They are known to be seen in waters around Koh Tao but the sightings can be few and far between. There are diving instructors who have been here for 7 years and still have never seen one. So, we were incredibly lucky and priveledged that the whaleshark made an appearance for us. The waters were very choppy yesterday but we toughed it out and the results paid off! We have a DVD of our last dive that we'll be happy to show off to you all once we get home. :)
We're catching a ferry to Koh Phangan in a few minutes so this post will be quick and w/o pictures but I promise to put more pictures up soon. If all goes to plan, we'll be in Koh Phangan until the 27th when we head back to Bangkok to fly to Sydney. There's a full moon party on Koh Phangan on the 24th that's really popular (supposed to be the 3rd biggest party in the world) so we've been talked into going there and we'll hopefully be meeting up with some of our fellow diver friends from Koh Tao. Should be good fun followed by lots of relaxing on the beach, snorkeling and maybe even an elephant trek through the jungle.
I'll post more soon! We love you all!!! Chuck & Renee
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Oh how cool! Becoming PADI certified is on my "To Do" list for 2008!!!!!!!! I can't wait for all of the details!!!!! So question for you? Are you all checking your email accounts whilst traversing or not?
Also...is the thing-a-ma-jig working out for you with saving pics?
Hey Kara! The diving was AWESOME! Highly recommend it! The photo thing is working well for us most of the time but it's pretty time consuming to download all the pictures Chuck is taking! We are checking email so please shoot me a line when you get a minute - would love to hear more from you! :)
Just wanted to say hi and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!! In case you haven't heard, and you probably haven't, Mizzou is headed to the Big 12 Championship game and is ranked #1 in the country. If they win this Saturday, they will be playing in the National Championship Game!!
Katie and I are glad you are having such a great time and we can't wait to see you guys soon!
Kara - question about the photo thing-a-ma-jig... Did you ever have problems when you plug it in and the computer says there are no pictures on your memory card, even though you can see them on your camera??? It seems to happen randomly, but we've had a few problems like that lately and are therefore having trouble downloading pics. Any thoughts???
I just figured out that we can respong to people's comments as well. So, hi Katie and Kurt!!!! It's good to hear from you two!!! I hope all is well and we can't wait to see you two either - it won't be too much longer! I'm sure Chuck will be interested to hear about Mizzou. We've definitely been removed from news updates at home! Talk soon! R
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