{"id":239,"date":"2008-10-01T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T08:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T08:24:37","slug":"rain-stopped-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/rain-stopped-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain stopped play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just arrived back at our beach villa having been caught on a pedalo half a kilometre from shore by a monsoon.\u00a0 It was quite fun actually as we tried to outrun it but it caught up with us with 100 yards or so left.\u00a0 Seemed like an opportune moment to write a blog anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Since I last wrote we&#8217;ve been generally relaxing while I&#8217;ve tried to let a bit of sun burn calm down (it&#8217;s fine now) and yesterday morning I managed to get Kathryn to try snorkelling again by guiding her around the nearby reef.\u00a0 It was going swimmingly (pun intended) until a moray eel decided to cross our path &#8211; it was probably 3-4 feet long but Kathryn decided it was a maneater and headed for shore at an decent rate of knots.\u00a0 Michael Phelps would have been impressed.\u00a0 I was proud of her for giving it another go though and I reckon we&#8217;ll have another bash at it later.<\/p>\n<p>Other news, when we arrived they didn&#8217;t realise it was our honeymoon but luckily Kathryn&#8217;s dad had emailed us a copy of the marriage certificate so when we showed them that we got given all sorts of freebies.\u00a0\u00a0 We get a trip, a luxury bath (oils, candles etc in our private villa bath), money off at the spa (so we booked another session each!) and I think we get some sort of going away present.<\/p>\n<p>As I speak the rain has now stopped and it looks like it&#8217;s brightening up already \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just arrived back at our beach villa having been caught on a pedalo half a kilometre from shore by a monsoon.\u00a0 It was quite fun actually as we tried to outrun it but it caught up with us with 100 yards or so left.\u00a0 Seemed like an opportune moment to write a blog anyway. 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