AT HOME ON A BOAT

Last week we took our best adventure trip yet when we sailed out to sea for 4 days and went scuba diving around the Similan Islands. Before reading further it is imperative that you understand the Similans are on the list of top ten best dive sites in the world. We could barely contain our excitement when the boat finally arrived to pick us up.

We ate our meals and slept on the MV JAZZ, a cream of the crop boat for divers and ironically also musicians. All meals were accompanied by hits from the 80's. Evening meals were preceded by guitar jam sessions. Dive jumps off the back of the boat were soundtracked with tunes like "Jaws" and "Star Wars". At night, turtles followed our boat using the flood lights to hunt for food. But Katie swears that the only reason turtles showed up is because they too, dig the sound of Jimi Hendrix.

After we exhausted ourselves with diving and music, it was time to go home. We sailed back to the main land thus becoming land lubbers again. Check out the official Trelstad Family Photo for 2008, taken at 60 feet below the surface of the ocean.