A lovely day yesterday, with a visit to the north of the island. We had intended to take the kids to Splash Jungle (again) but Indi fell asleep in the car enroute. Rather than wake her, we decided to continue straight on, over the Saracin Bridge, and onto mainland Thailand. If time permitted, we would have just continued all the way to Krabi, but the monster awoke after a two hour sleep so we turned around and retraced our steps.
Interestingly, on this visit Rory also completely conquered whatever fear he may have had of the water slides and we belting down them with complete abandon. He even headed down some of the adult slides on a circular tube with Jo (also her first time on water slides).
With the kids properly exhausted from a poolside lunch and several hours in the sun, we loaded them back in the car for a very peaceful trip home. Deviating via Surin and Kamala again, we just meandered along the country roads that balance between sheer jungle walls on one side and small cliffs that drop into clear water on the other side. The roads are impeccably maintained, well signposted, and clearly designed by someone who had no access to a ruler for drawing straight lines. I don't think there is 100m of straight road in the entire journey, which makes for exhilarating driving.
A lazy dinner in central Patong was topped by an early night for Jo and a 90 minute foot massage for me reading Robert Ludlum on the iPad. Having 600 or more books available on the one device is definitely dangerous, and I am having way to many late nights engrossed in a book.
