First night in Pammukale

We walk through the doors of the hotel, realising that we have arrived after being deserted on the freeway. Our first glance at the hotel reveals that this place is quite huge. We make our way to the reception desk, exhausted and starving to death. I dont think we ate since lunch or that disgusting cake we had at the kokpit. Thank god for the lollies!!!

By the time we check in the bellboy grabs our luggage and slams them on his trolley. I'm actually quite glad he did that, as we soon realise we have the furthest and the last room in the hotel. We start the long cat walk down some hallway. We must have seriously past like 70 - 90 rooms. The walk was never ending. For a minute I thought we were in some walking marathon. Note later we actually filmed the long walk down the hallway. I think I ran out of tape at one stage. They should really offer golf cars at the entrance to take you to your room. I would seriously tip for it.

20 minutes later we arrive to the room, starving to death. I was so starved that I find it quite hard to pull out a tip for the bellboy. Feeling exhausted, the bellboy informs us that the resturant will close in half an hour for the night. We immediately dump everything and race off to find the resturant. To our luck the resturant is located right at the begining of the hallway.

We stand outside the resturant staring at a menu trying to decide how much we want to spend on this meal. We agree to order something cheap for the night. We stroll into the resturant when some guy approaches us. I can't remember the conversation but we soon realise that this resturant is a massive buffet hall. I can still remember the smell of all the yummy foods coming straight at me. For a minute I wanted to order everything on the menu because I was so hungry.

The guy seats us down in some corner and this is when we find out that dinner is actually included in our room price. Before the guy finishes his sentence, we storm like lunatics towards the buffet. We shove, push and do what we have to in order to get to the food. Its like releasing prisoners from jail. Who ever was watching us must think we havent eaten in a month.

We decide to coordiate, as one grabs fruit, while the other grabs dessert. Soon our table is like a king's table. We have everything you can think of. I can't remember what we ate but god we were hungry. We couldn't stop eating. We kept going back for seconds and thirds until the table was filled. I supposed we deserved this after the day we had.

As if the food we had at the table wasn't enough, we soon decided to pock some into our bags when the waiters weren't looking. I think we had enough fruit in the bag that it almost look like we were carrying a bowling ball. Just for the record thoses fruit came in very handy in the next few days..

We some how managed to slowly make our way back to the room after that long hallway walk holding the bowling ball bag. I think we were so full we could barely move. For some reason we thought the next best thing was to go swimming in the pool at 11pm after being so satisfied by our meal. We quickly changed into our swim gear and hence went back down that long hallway to the pools.

We find ourselves standing in the middle of two enormous pools, a bar and a small stage. The night is pumping and it seems everyone is out near the bars and pools here. One of the pools is a noice blueish color sparking with the reflection of the moon and stars while the other is a thermal pool dark as a gothic girl.

We decide to head into the thermal pool as its apparently good for you. Its supposed to have minerals and stuff in it to heal you. We jump in and I start panicing as I can't see shit around me lieterally. The whole area is dark and god knows whats in this pool. For all I know a snake could have fallen in here. Panicking with theses thoughts I look around to see only a handful of people in the pool with us. I try walking in the water to only realise that its EXTREMELY slippery due to the calcium and minerals in it. Now I know why everyone else is in the other pool.

Everytime I tried walkng or swimming in that pool something would brush against me and I would find myself searching stupidly for insects or spiders. I have no idea why I got talked into this but hey I stupidly returned to this pool the next day. I suppose one never learns.

As we continue to tortue ourselves in this pool we soon realise that the MC announces something and a guy dressed in a bellydancing outfit comes shaking out. We swim to the side of the pool to watch him shake his booty. Its quite amazing as his actually quite good. I would say better than most female bellydancers.

We were enjoying watching him in the pool when we soon realise something. It didn't occur to me until it was pointed out. He had something wrapped around his neck. To my disgust I soon realise it's a python. The guy was swinging it around like a cane, shoving it into his mouth and pants.

My fears about snakes were coming true. A mad panic rushed through my viens when I suddently thought what if this guy accidently throws the snake into the thermal pool? We wouldn't have enough time to get out of this hell hole. It's too slippery to race out. We would fall and crack our backs. In a mad panic we rush out of the pool. I swear the people watching us must have been thinking whats wrong with them? It was like we just robbed a bank and we had to leave the crime scene.

In that mad rush we race down the hallway and into our room dripping wet. We probably caused an accident in the hallway leaving a trail of water. Knowing our luck someone would slip and break their neck and the security cameras would reveal us lunatics running down the hallway.

After that long day it was time for a shower and to turn in. What a day. I was lying in bed thinking what was going to happen tomorrow after todays dramas...