Yipee at last it's time to fly down to phuket so after 40 min drive to airport,short delay til flight leaves and we are up in the air! then wooosh a drop of god knows how many feetplane either hits air pocket or pilot falls asleep
Everyone screamsi turn to maricel she is smiling and says "that was good hope it happens again it was like being on a rollercoaster" i am so pleased i took ample supply of immodium

Landed in phuket without further incident and got a posh taxi to take us the 30min trip to our hotel.on arrival at hotel we were very impressed the amari coral hotel it is gorgeous.

I use trip advisor when looking for hotels as you find out what people who have stayed in hotels really think of them and the amari was voted no1 in phuket and i totally agreed with the rating. oh how nice to get to the beach and swimming pools at our hotel,it seemed a world away from noisy,grubby bangkok.

We got settled in our room and had a quick walk about to check the hotel out and we were very happy.we agreed to relax and then check out the infamous patong beach later.

So hand in hand we set of towards the beach and kapow! the noise and liveliness of the bars,shops hits you like a smack in the face
we soon learnt to ignore all eye contact with anyone selling from tuk tuk and taxi rides to "hey rolex mister" "eat here","hey boss"

To be fair we both enjoyed the energy and action of patong beach but it was nice to return to the calmness and security of our hotel at the far side of the beach set in its own grounds away from the hustle and bustle

The next day it was relax time pool,sunbeds,nice snacks and singapore slings all roundi though mmm the pool looks nice i'm off for a dip,maricel said she would join me soon.now i'm an ok swimmer no more and maricel does a great doggie paddle,soon she climbs into the pool and heads towards me

The problem was i was very near the deep end so water was up to my shoulders so when maricel leapt towards me it pushed me back wards and my head underwater maricel then proceeded to swallow lots of water while i'm frantically trying to throw her towards the shallow end but it's not easy when i myself was already under water running out of air:
thankfully after lots of thrashing about in the water we were safe

Then the awful realisation that this had been a great show to all the people by the poolside all we needed now were a cople of performing seals and a dolphin to complete the show!that was embarrasing to say the least!!! but at least we lived to tell the talealthough maricel still claims i tried to drown her