Well, we spent most of the day in the pool on Long Island, our time pretty even spread between ordering exotic-looking drinks at the underwater bar, and playing water-volleyball. We enlisted the help of several Essex lads to boost the game of the Europe team (we were playing Europe vs the rest of the world...) and, as Long Island marked the end of the tour for some of our number, we invited the guys - Daz, Gaz and Adz (:D) - for 'goodbye' drinks and inpromtu karaoke. They seemed utterly terrified by this, but were eventually press-ganged into joining us... We left Long Island with slightly depleted numbers, but with high spirits (and mild headaches...) and once wqe arrived back at the mainland, we were reunited with the rest of our luggage (shampoo! clean clothes! hair
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