Educational

They've done it - yey!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After 2 (long) weeks of 7am -7pm training Chris and Lawrence are now PADI Instructors!!!!! Big personal goal for Chris, and a possible career choice for Lawrence, thus upping his 'cool' status with the ladies, but simultaneously condemning him to a life of Tesco Value bread and jam.

They went out to celebrate the evening that they finished (no snorkels this time, they just drank the beer straight down) and the next day we went to meet my cousin Hannah and her boyfriend Rhys who had very sensibly decided to arrive a day later!! Guess what? Yep they dive too. So the following day we all went to out on the boat to celebrate their new status, girls snorkelling, us taking it in turns to dive.

The dive site was Koh Man Wichai, average for Hannah and Rhys who had come up from the beautiful Similan Islands, but easy and pretty for the rest of us. Rhys had his underwater camera, so here are a few scenes from the Gulf of Thailand.

PADI Instructors Chris (in control of his bouyancy) and Lawrence (not so much):

Pretty Squirrelfish (photo credit - Hannah!):

BIG Blue Spotted Jellyfish (check out the diver behind for scale!):

Keeping it in the family - Hannah, Lawrence and Rachel:

Hannah and Rhys are here for a few more days, before they head up to Bangkok, we are here for only 3 more weeks, so need to start trying to streamline our belongings again!

See ya

All love CRFS xxxx