Wednesday,7th January:

Angst in the Villa: The Salty Sock

We begin our day early once again. Caz, Martin, Louise and Slaney are all awake but Pickle remains in bed. We decide to beat him with some foam floats to get him out of bed. He isn’t impressed.

We went back to the park to take some photos, through a market bit and took loads of photos of the main road on our track and noted down how many shops there are on the road etc and looked at street furniture. After this the beach looked more appetising than work we sat there in the 20 Degrees sunshine.

Seen as we left the snow for the brilliant sunshine (its sunny now anyways) we felt the need to ring some of you back in the UK and gloat about the weather. Byren was our first port of call but he didn’t pick up. So we rang Ben. He was jealous of our weather.

Mission Complete.

Byren rings Caz back later in the afternoon, only to tell us he hates us all when he hears of the fabulous weather. He didnt mean it. We think.

Martin and Caz rolled up their trousers and began sunbathing. Caz then decided t was a good idea to go for a paddle in the sea. Trousers rolled up and socks in hand (in case Martin stole them) made her way down to the sea. To only go and drop a sock in the sea. Thus later on creating The Salty Sock!

A large helicopter flew over the beach, and Caz and Martin had a slapsies fight.

We then we for lunch, and got a little ripped off! We shant be going back there again. We then went back to the apartment as some of us felt like we needed a nap. Martin and Slaney were too energetic for this and went to climb a mountain! They disappointed us by only going round the block not up the mountain. (well it is a military base they couldn’t get over it)

On their travels, Martin wanted a lovely artistic postcard style shot of him and the mountains and as Slaney went to take it, paying more attention to the camera than his surroundings., He hears a bark, scampering feet and a ginger blob out the corner of his eye. He turns round a sees a dog charging at him, he instantaneously lost his cool as the small dog ran up to him.

Martin prefers saying that Slaney went pale very quickly and has never seen him move so far so fast….

Once the boys returned and the rest of us were woken up, we trekked down to a beach. It was about an hours walk but once we got there it was spectacular, Sitting on rock faces watching the sunset. However on the way, we decided to follow a dog (Martins fault, he thought the dog would lead us to some treasure). It actually took us to a Landfill site. Life isn’t quite like Fable 2.

We got the bus back, it was white with a pink stripe and a slidey door if your interested! Whilst waiting for the bus a little kitty came to play with us.

Once we got back we had dinner and sported out some photographs. We fully decided on the route for our track and what the surroundings will be. How many shop fronts we need apartment buildings we need and built the block out for our level. During this time we sent Joel 1 & 2 out for some alcohol. A long time disappear and we began to get worried about them. They returned about an hour and a half later with some coke and Jim Bean.

Once the block out was finished, we began a game of poker. Caz, Martin and Slaney already knew how to play. The Sunday night before we left for the airport Caz amd Martin taught Louise and Pickle how to play. This gives Pickle an obsession with the game.

So we all sit down, using tiddlywinks as chips and begin the game. Caz manages to knock Pickle and Louise out in one hand, leaving three of them. Eventually it looks like Caz was winning. But the last hand we played was played blind. Slaney only just won this.

During this game, we are al of course drinking the Jim Bean and coke. Slaney and martin appear to be drinking on par with each other. It appears to affect Slaney more and he starts chatting even more crap than normal.

Martin ventures outside to the balcony. Slaney hasn’t realised he is outside and he goes ‘Oh look, Martins outside’ we all know this as were relatively sober. The fact that Martin is outside is rapidly forgotten, only to be rediscovered again later on.

Its quite amusing until we all want to go to bed and he wont stop flapping his gums. We eventually get him to go to bed, but he returns! Mumbling about his water…..

The Jim Bean didn’t go down to well….