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Tuesday 9/7/24 

Today is officially a rest day.  All we have on is cocktail making at 2.30pm so a whole morning of rest and relaxation awaits.

After a lovely breakfast, i suggest we go for  a nice walk along the beach as it is a beautiful day and the sand is wet and not so hard for me to walk on.

Nice walk

Paul on the war I mean footpath

Paul on our walk

this is the swimmers area where they are safe from crocodiles and poisonous jellyfish

Me walking on sand. Yes!

And then it happened........

After taking my photo, Paul handed me back my phone and i at some point put it back in my bag.....

But as we were leaving the beach, maybe 20 metres from where the photo was taken,  i realised i did not have my phone. Not in my bag, or pocket or anywhere i could see.

I delivered this news to Paul...... 

and we immediately tried to retrace our steps along the beach. But we could not see it.

At this point we decided to try the find your phone app thing of which we had little knowledge or expertise.

So in a panic we raced back to the resort and i tried to find the find my phone thing.

As i google, a couple of apps come up promising to help me. I actually try one before realising it is asking me to pay and i don't think that is right. Oh god why cant i do this computer shit!  So i quickly get out of it and find the bona fide Samsung one. But i need to talk to someone.

I do and we do find the app and it is tracking my phone. We have a bit of a map and race to to where it was last seen, sort of on the beach but not. We hope that someone has found it. However we have been ringing it and no response. It is not easy as the resorts and restaurants on this strip have all odd numbers. We walk in different directions and are unable to find the number until it is obvious that the phone is at the hotel or in front of it.  But it isn't. It seems to be tracking where i last had it????

After much useless walking, we return to our room and the computer to work out what is happening. It is saying it will track its position every 15 minutes but nothing is happening. The internet here is not great.

In a lather of fear and desperation, i suggest one last walk along the beach. Maybe someone has found it??????   Not a popular idea but i go anyway. I am sure we will find it. It cant have been swept away into the ocean or taken by some form of dangerous wildlife.

I go back to the beach, (which is very close to our room) and walk along asking people on the beach had they seen my phone etc. Most of them had not been there long. One lovely young lady told me she had seen a man bend over and pick something off the sand and then head towards the lifesaving area. 

Eureka! Hopefully. I made my way back to the lifesaving area but still asked everyone on the beach on the way whether they had seen my phone. The young ones understood the gravity more than the older ones. Hmm

I walked as quickly as i could and found the lifesaver at the front of his hut keeping an eye out for crocodiles and deadly jellyfish.

I sheepishly asked about the phone. He got up, walked over to a chair and brought out my phone!!!!!!  He said it had been there for about 20 minutes, which was after Paul had previously asked him. 

Hallelulia.  I wanted to hug him mainly because he had my phone.

Apparently my phone was on silent so did not ring when we rang it. 

Disaster averted. I was so happy that we had a glass or two of wine around the pool sharing a nice thai beef salad. (GF)

While enjoying the euphoria, i saw a message on my phone from the bank saying there had been a strange transaction and to advise them if it was authorised or not. 

%^&*$ It was the scammy find your phone thing that i had tried first. So i had to say no i hadnt but that meant they would cancel my credit card but ring me within the hour.  Paul had gone through a similar thing just before the holiday. 

What is wrong with us????

Anyway the nice man from the bank confirmed that it was a phone thing, a known scam and suggested i have a look at the list of recent scams etc to better protect my self from them. (You silly old woman! subtext)

But i could still use my googlepay on my phone until i  got my new card next week. Great.

In the afternoon we went to  cocktail making class (part of the package). We made a cosmopolitan and a tommy margarita.  Not hard.

Cosmopolitan

cosmo selfie

and proper photo

tommys margarita

Great afternoon  drinking cocktails. Time for a swim in the beautiful heated mineral pool and then Greek for dinner. No photos but particularly nice food.

Back to our room after  a rather busy and stressful day.  Thank god for the cushions. 

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This place has cushions everywhere. on  the bed on chairs on the swing, round the pool. And candles. 

Peace is serenity is what is happening, but not today it didnt...