priceless!!

+ new shirt and fishermen pants typical from thailand bought just for the occasion ($....very inexpensive);
+ a favorite in my family (at least my dad): white veal sausage bought at the local supermarket with potatoes ($$ …. also inexpensive);
+ a not so inexpensive champagne from argentina bought in phuket ($$$$ rather pricy)
+ …… the most wonderful place to say good bye to the best year of our lives and welcome the next: in phi phi island on board Puerto Seguro…. That is priceless, of course!!!!!!!!!

and the story which we later realized…:
we have one clock on board which we adjusted to the correct time back in malaysia, or at least we thought. at midnight on the clock we eat some grapes but could not make a champagne toast because we had finished the bottle some 30 minutes before. we were a bit impressed of how quiet it was on land. after having seen so many people in phi phi we expected fireworks and loud screams at about midnight… but nothing. so we welcomed our new year quietly and called it a night at about 12:40. a few days later we found out our clock was an hour ahead. we quickly realized we actually missed the midnight celebration in thailand. we had a big laugh…!!

even though it was an hour before, it was still one of the best new year’s we have ever had!