After a visit to a Thai clinic to finally get Noah some medicine for what turned out to be an infection (it worked! Yay!), we headed to our final destination: Koh Tao. Our last big adventure was a 4-day scuba diving class on the island. For our last few nights, we treated ourselves to a beautiful villa with an ocean-view balcony at the dive resort. The scuba class was intensive and moved fast! We really enjoyed our crazy British instructor and the other couple taking the class with us. I didn't make it to the end of the course, but Noah was a natural and got scuba-certified! I'm so proud of him!
We spent our evenings in Koh Tao watching the sun set from restaurants right on the beach, and had a great night celebrating Noah's birthday! (although Thai birthday cake doesn't have anything on the Simmons family special). I was sad to leave, but Noah got to spend a few more days on the island doing some awesome, advanced dives. Meanwhile I headed to Lisbon to meet up with my family for a week. It's been a beautiful city and a VERY different experience than Asia travel! (safe fresh vegetables? hot water?? THAT MEAL WAS TWENTY EUROS?!?)
We are so grateful to have had the chance to take such a long trip, and definitely could not have done it without the help from our parents. THANK YOU! We've really enjoyed updating this blog with our reflections on this trip, and can't wait to tell everyone more in person when we get home! (FYI: we took over 1000 pictures. Consider yourself warned).
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