beach day

saturday was a well-deserved and much needed break from camp.. the beach was covered in seaweed which was a first, so we were careful about selecting our sunbaking patches (: spent a bit of time online (hence the latest blog entries) in that small, halogen-lit room that smells of damp and mould. i'm becoming quite fond of it despite it's distasteful state as it's pretty much the only link i have to all you kids [other than my kenyan sim card that's costing me a small fortune, but that's to be expected..]

there's not so much to recount.. just a very lazy day enjoying the water, the sand, the sun and the amazing food at forty thieves (: however one thing definitely worth mentioning was the amusing series of events following campbell's order of a kid's pizza. the gappers doing their PADI open water course were out diving all day and when they came back to the thieves they only had 20 odd minutes before we were to be picked up. she orders, and 10min later the waiter arrives with a large margarita pizza he says is hers. she denies it, saying that she clearly ordered a 'toto' pizza, but that she'll gladly eat this one as long as she still pays the toto price. the waiter didn't seem too happy about that and decided to instead take the pizza back to the kitchen (mind you, by this time the place is empty other than our group), and when campbell reminds him we had to leave shortly and asks to have this big pizza once more, he just shrugs as if to say "bad luck".

literally 2min later the waiter returns with a toto pizza plate sporting the small margarita ordered. he's about to leave when campbell notices it doesn't have a crust and we all realise he's just cut half of the original pizza away and tried to pass it off as a new pizza so that she wouldn't get a scrap more than what she payed for!!! it was hilarious but at the same time quite irritating.. he at first denied the accusation, assuring us it was a new pizza, then simply started laughing (evidently quite pleased with himself) and walked off.

i've gotta say i've never seen anything like that before in a restaurant..