Never realise that it can be so so much fun at Club Med! Things are really never boring at Club Med! This resort adopts the 'all inclusive' concept. All meals are included, drinks are included and activities are included all day long! You have endless activities to choose from the whole day! And me? Of course the sea sports take priority!
The first activity I went for is snorkeling. It's always been an activity which I wanted to do. And here comes the chance. They only allowed a maximum of 20 guests per trip and they only do 2 trips daily. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon. I went for the afternoon trip. After registration and collecting all the items like the snorkeling masks and flippers for the trip, we headed to the pool for a swimming test. They made sure that all the guests know how to swim before we're allowed to head out to the sea. And of course I passed it.
The sea was pretty rough but we went out all the same. We came to this 'deserted' area on the left of the village. It was pretty far out as we are unable to see the village from where we stopped. It was a bit scary as we heard that few jellyfishes were sighted. But I jumped in all the same. It was my first time snorkeling in the open sea. I spent like half an hour with one of the guest officer. (mainly cos for some reasons, the other guests refuse to join us out in the open area and away from the main boat.) He showed me 'Nemos', sighted jellyfishes for me, showed me the wonderful corals and all the special spots of the area.
When it was time to return, I realised that I was the last one back onboard. That was when I got to know that I am the only one who stayed in the waters for so long! Cos out of the 14 guest who went into the waters, 3 already got stung by the jellyfishes the moment they got into the water. So I guess I'm really lucky. Now I'm hooked on snorkeling and can't wait for my next trip to materialise.
Tried kayaking as well but the wave was so strong that we couldn't get out to sea and so we, of course, gave up. No point trying for something so hard if you know you can't beat nature. We had already spent 15minutes trying so no point wasting more time. Cannot means cannot.
Would have gone sailing as well if all the handsomes (the GOs lah) weren't already all fully booked for the afternoon. Hey, you can't expect a greenhorn to go sailing in the great wide sea alone for the first time right? SO, assistance and tutoring is definitely required.
Next was archery. I sucked! Wonder where all my marksmanship skills went. Definitely out of practice. the last time I went into a shooting range or touched any shooting 'apparatus' was like decade ago. So, don't expect too much. We had 2 handsomes guiding the whole lot of us helpless girls here as well. Definitely fun. He commented that he just couldn't bring himself to look where out arrows went. Hmm.. I'll take that as a complement.
Breakfast the next morning was just as exciting. The GOs just approached our table and parked themselves in the empty seats next to us (we had a 6 seater to the 2 of us.) after briefly asking if they could. They don't seemed to care about the answer as they just sat down anyway. We didn't take that 6 seater with that intension. We definitely have no idea that they would do that. IT WASN'T PLOTTED / PLANNED / INTENDED. But being gracious people, we of course welcome them to join in. And my reward for that graciousness? An invitation to Mexico. See, it pays to be nice. Although it's nothing but a verbal 'fling'.
Next trip, maybe Hong Kong. If SQ decides to confirm my flight and if my boss really feels that I'm really required to go...
