Wednesday 26th December 2007

For some reason the air-conditioning we had in our room, packed in last night and we all woke up feeling VERY hot this morning. We heard that it reached 39° yesterday, so we wanted to make sure we put on loads of sun-cream today... it could get even hotter! Everything seemed to be back to normal outside, so we had a look around the shops and then made our way down to the beach. We spent a couple of hours down there - most of which Emma was in the sea. Nikki thought it WAS hotter today, but I wasn't sure because there was a nice breeze in the air (well, as nice as standing in front of a hair dryer can be anyway). We spent all morning running the couple of meters, across the hot sand, into the sea and the running back to our towels and being dry before we'd even led down.

This afternoon, we had some lunch and then went for another look around the shops. Emma decided it was too hot for her by now so she went back to the hostel and me and Nikki went back to the beach. We spent a couple of hours reading (well, I did), chatting (once again me to myself - Nikki had fallen asleep) and swimming before going back at about 7pm. We found Emma crashed out on her bed - so the sun had obviously taken it out of her.

Tonight, we got ourselves all dressed up and went out for a nice meal with the money that Uncle Col' and Auntie Paula had sent over for us. We chose a really nice Italian restaurant that overlooked the sea (although we sat inside because of the air-conditioning). The meal was FANTASTIC! Me and Nikki shared a bottle of wine, Emma tried new foods and we all had a really good time. The restaurant was packed and our waitress, bless her, had only been working two days - but we were in no rush and so were happy for her to look after everyone else while we had a good ol' chin-wag. At about 11pm, we paid our bill and walked back out into the heat and back to our hostel... we'd had a brilliant evening, thanks Uncle Col' and Auntie Paula!

So, that's it for another Christmas. I wonder where we'll be next year?