Chicken Pox and other unfortunate recent events.

Well I managed to get my hands on Chickenpox somehow. It actually wasn't too bad at all, mainly just one day and a terrible night when I felt the fever attacking. Rest of the time just wasn't good to look at and had to resist the itch. I got sick though and stomach problems on that really sick day and pretty well didn't eat all day. Everything is scabbing up nicely now and it's nice to be able to get out of the room some more again. It has been incredibly hot. Main reasons why I would have liked to get the pox at home is because then TV and Sony could have kept me busy in the times when i felt to ill to read my books. have had some good books though; the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy series thanks to Kevin and Michael and the Alyson found a couple of books in reception. One of them which i'm now reading is Marching Powder, i'd been told about this book working with an English guy in 07 and it's about a crazy corrupt drug ridden prison in Bolivia. It's a very interesting read and Crissy might even be able to go on a tour if she goes through Bolivia. Unless later in the book they finish them.
Other unfortunate events happened recently, on the day we found out about my chickenpox we'd gone to the beach just after we had lunch. My stomach was a bit unsettled at the time and I had a sudden terrible urge to go to the toilet. Unfortunately of course there were none around as we'd just ridden our bike to a beach quite far away so I had to hike off into the scrub as best I could and find a try to hold onto whilst I terribly uncomfortably immersed myself with nature. The place was so dusty that I even had to wipe the dust off the leaves I used. Also their was Lantana or something similar that was cutting my feet and legs as I moved around, and lots of big Elephant poo. At this same beach the next day I was sitting in the shade hiding from everyone as I'd just been diagnosed with my pox though it still wasn't that bad. I was reading my book minding my own business when an ant suddenly appeared in my pants. I'd been worried about them climbing over me and making my pop my blisters in an attempt to get them out of my shirt but this was much worse, he'd made it all the way into my undies without my noticing. When I did I was trying to get him out as quickly as possible but he got a couple of very good bites in before I could evict him. Was incredibly painful and I wasn't happy. That beach hates me. This story reminded me of in year 2 when Phil and I were at after school care one afternoon. There was a girl who liked me and wanted to kiss me, but I didn't want it. So Phill thought he'd help out the girl and he held me down, I remember watching as two wasps flew into my pants and down my boxers. I was then going crazy trying to get Phill to let me go because I had bigger problems but they succeeded in biting me a few times before flying out. What a tragic reoccurance.
My main other unfortunate event happened in Koh Tao when we went on the girls wishes to a Cabaret show. This was a Cabaret show with a difference, they were all Lady-boys. Even though I must say a couple of them did incredibly well to look female and some even had real/fake breasts. It was a pretty good show that they obviously all enjoyed performing but at the end when they needed volunteers I felt choosing me was a rather bad choice. The only drink I'd had all night was an Ice Tea so I definately wasn't in the mood. We did however do the best we could to dance along to the YMCA dressed in our extravagent dresses. Mine was the dress that one of the guys had worn to make fun of Britney Spears so mine was very over the top with huge breasts that the much more drunken lads enjoyed. To make it even more embarressing they have a small chat to you at the end. The guy hosting usually makes a joke as well, for me he went into kiss me but I refused. Then after our chat he asked if he could have a kiss, just on the cheek. I though fair enough so I went in and the sneaky devil turned his head on me. He had Huge amounts of shiny sparkly lipstick on and it covered half my face. I didn't enjoy that so much and I think i failed to hide it. Ahh well, just my luck.
Other than that Thailand has been beautiful and wonderfully warm. The beaches lovely and cooling and wonderful to look at. Everything has been about a third more expensive than last year due to the exchange rate unfortunately, the only place we got lucky with that was in England.

Never finished off in Scotland. On New Years Eve day Pete drove us round and did a wonderful job as a tour guide. He showed us Loch Loman; the biggest Loch/Lake in all of Britain. It had a beautiful old hotel on it which has some serious wealth surrounding it. In the Car park was a Rolls Phantom, an Aston Vanquish, and a helicopter!! Also their is a story of some friends of friends that had planned their wedding there. They recieved a call saying that someone wanted to book it out for the weekend and was there anyway they could move the wedding. This would obviously be incredibly annoying because everything was booked, all the guests had been told and what not. Expensive stuff. The person who wanted the hotel however was willing to pay for the wedding dress. No, still not interested. It went on like this with more and more offers. Until they eventually offered to pay for the dress, the whole wedding, buy two new cars for the bride and groom and an around the world holiday, they couldn't say no in the end and apparently it was David Beckham who was hiring it out. Crazy stuff.
For new years eve night we went to Graeme's in Edinburgh and went out to some members club bar that they managed to get us tickets for. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening and all their friends were good guys. We had a bit of time to explore Edinburgh the next day and it is beautiful. We had dinner with Graeme's family which was very nice and a great meal as well. Scotland will be a very nice place to visit some more.
Alright that'll have to do for my update, it's very hot and I wanna get a motorbike.