It all started when snorklin' in Hoi An.
The sea was calm, the weather was prime. We were in a COMPLETELY SAFE, TOTALLY NEW, STATE OF THE ART wooden boat.
Well, we were all there, Jules was the first to hop in (for safety reasons), but like always, I was next! Along came the group, some with life jackets, slagging in their goggles so they wouldn't fog up (HUH, boy-scouts [inside joke]).
We (the group) swam calmly in the water. I was so tempted to just touch everything! I knew I shouldn't have; I was told not to, but I did it anyway!
It was half way through the snorkle and most of the group were fed up with Paddy, Darcy and I wandering off in the ocean. Because of this, we were called back by Jules, so we slowly started heading back towards the group.
Out of no where, as we were swimming, Paddy said, "Oi look! There's a sea urchin tagged with the number 405".
I relpied "I'm pretty sure they don't tag sea urchins..."
But Paddy was certain of what he had seen.
During this time, Darcy was thinking to himself "That number sounds familiar..."
I became distracted and started to day dream "Jules really taught me something about keeping my passport, money and valuables safe, when he took our stuff from our unlocked hotel room, jeez that scared me... Should have locked our room that day, should have paid more attention!"
Subconsiously I remembered that I had the room key in my pocket. When I checked to see if it was there, my stomach flipped when I found out, IT WASN'T!!! I didn't wanna tell Jules that I'd lost my room key, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!
That's when it clicked. It occured to me that what Paddy had thought to be a sea urchin, mysteriously tagged with the number 405, was in fact my room key that had fallen out of my pocket earlier on. Darcy and I drifted off to find it.
The group had made a decision that we had had enough. Thus, we headed back to the boat. I sped ahead trying to quickly look for the key.
Suddenly in a sarcastic voice, Jules yelled out, "Hey Jye, where's that tagged sea urchin?"
I put on an act to make it seem like I wasn't woried. I laughed nerviously. Somehow he had found out!
Jules suggested than that the group quickly scout out around the reef to check every sea urchin.
I had lost all hope, when I saw Jules poking something with his snorkle on the ocean floor. As I glimpsed the number 405 dangling off the end of his snorkle, I almost died with relief.
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