Good Times, Good Times...

Day 14. A night at Poring Hot Springs meant time to try and recover, although I feel the true pain from the mountain climb may take time to settle in! We washed clothes, got SOME of the stink out. Just a bit, mind. Last night i slept in a room with 7 of us and one bemused-looking Malay man! Poring is nothing amazing... as we were promised. Just a bunch of pools and baths. Good fun swimming and bathing in them though.
In the morning we travelled back to lovely KK by some sort of mini-bus as per usual... which was late! Calvey soon told him off, and got us a nice discount! "No, YOU'RE wrong!"
We went back to "Planet Kinabalu" hostel in order to get ready for a much-deserved R&R day - woop! The hostel stairs were now sheer hell. Every painful step pulled muscles that couldn't be pulled anymore and twisted joints that were already internally bleeding!
Anyway, after some vital faffing, we went to the dockside and boarded an ickle tiny speedboat to go and visit one of KK's nearby islands. The journey was fast and bumpy and got us there in no time! The island (i forget the name) was crowded, but i got in some fiiiiiiine sunbathing and snorkelling - saw a few non-exciting fish real close-up. It was my first time snorkelling so half the time was spent adjusting my goggles and mouthpiece, sticking my head below water, choking, then re-adjusting!
The day was going so well until a tropical storm turned up to join in the fun. It swirled in, creating a rain and sand smorgasbord that attacked us... and our sunburn! Proceedingly, the boat was late picking us up, but we had fun just beering it and looking at the billions of fish that were coming up to the surface as they thought the rain splashes were food being dropped in the water! Despite a boat engine cut, and me stubbing and cutting my toe at the atrociously slippery dockside, we returned to dry land, all having had a great day... although Adam (leader) didn't think so... he complained to the man that sold us the trip saying we were just abandoned on the island... kinda true, but it was more fun that way! Anyway, he got Su (assistant leader) and husband a free snorkelling adventure by his complaining, so it worked out ok!
Tonight was the last night we'd spend in KK, so we went to town! Can you guess? Yup, "Cock & Bull" again! Beer drinking was slow due to all-day drinking, but ah well!

...................."i'm too sexy..."