Day 8 - The Day I Met The Man Of My Dreams

Today was the day of the dive and my sister & I were both so over excited as we'd heard that around these areas you were likely to see turtles, sting rays and even sharks (not looking forward to encountering the last one.) When we got to the PADI centre, I noticed someone out of the corner of my eye. A guy. I couldn't see him properly as his back was turned but I noticed he was about 6'4 and had a mess of blond surfer-style hair. I knew once he turned around he'd be unbelievable ugly or something so I didn't get my hopes up. Then he pulled his top up over his head and revealed a set of beautifully toned arms and a muscular, tanned back. Trying not to stare was exceptionally difficult but I remembered I was yet to see his face. Then he turned around. And I've never seen anyone so gorgeous, just standing there before my eyes. He had deep blue eyes, chiseled features and a stunning six pack. Looks wise he was my dream man.

Until now, I hadn't noticed anyone around, not one single guy that was actually remotely good looking. I'd been hoping for some sort of holiday romance, now was the first time I was single on holiday and looking for some beautiful guy to come and sweep me off my feet. But a week had already gone by and I was beginning to give up hope. To be honest, I hadn't actually seen many people similar to my age, whatsoever. There was supposed to be around 3,000 people staying here and I'd seen around maybe 40-50 people around the age 18-25 and it was beginning to get me down. As much as I was loving spending time with my family, Evie and I had expected to meet a big group of people to be hanging out & going out clubbing with. Everyone here were groups of older people or families with young children. And also honeymooners and people getting married, which wasn't remotely depressing seeing loved up couples everywhere...I was fine with being single, I enjoyed being free, able to do whatever I wanted, see whoever I wanted but it was lonely.

Anyway, back to The man. He smiled, a big white dazzling smile and then he spoke. He was American (no matter how ugly a guy is, if I hear an American accent escape their lips, they suddenly are twice as appealing.) 'Hey, you here for the dive?' Trying, to pull myself together I nodded. Turns out, he was our diving instructor and I had no idea how I was going to concentrate whilst training. Once he walked off to go set up the diving video, Evie and I exchanged glances, both saying oh my God have you ever seen a guy this good looking and were suddenly even more excited about scuba diving. After watching an outdated, over simplified video about the importance of safety under the water we got our scuba gear and headed to the pool.






Doing our practice dive in the pool







We were doing the dive with two other American guys who were about our age and seemed like pretty decent guys. When we got into the pool, the hottie introduced himself as Nick and paired himself up with me(!) for the half an hour practice session. To be honest, I didn't pay attention to half of what he was saying and pretty much just stared at him, not in a creepy way, honest. Then we were ready to head out to sea.

Not the best picture of him, but pretty damn good for having scuba gear on and wet hair.



Once out at sea, we threw ourselves backwards off the boat and went to descend. The sea was pretty rough that day and once we were under I couldn't see the bottom, all I could see was blue. For some reason I went into a bit of a panic and came back up. Nick calmed me down and said he'd go down with me, all I had to do was look into his eyes to keep calm. Well as soon as he said that I was more that fine, especially when he wrapped his legs around me until we touched the bottom. Once we were down there it was unreal, I felt as if I was floating and the whole sensation was surreal. Although the dive was 45 minutes it felt about 5 and soon we were ascending. Although we hadn't seen any majorly amazing sea creatures we did see a baby moray eel!

That night we had another restaurant booked at the Japanese, which I had most been looking forward to as they cook the food straight in front of you. Here we had an amazing meal and had a lovely chat with the couple sitting next to us. We had a long day and an early start ahead of us, so an early night was in need.