The last dance

All good things come to an end.
Wednesday morning had us all out together after breakfast for the promotion shots and it was a bit disorganized to say the least. We lost a lot of light when it clouded over and we all sat around drinking water and talking under the shade of the beach edge trees and again the topic was all about boys and what some of the girls had got up to at the bar last night. Hitomi, T.W, me and a girl called Bunko didn't join the others at the bar, instead we'd gone out to a nice little Taiwanese restaurant and so we missed out on what some of the antics of other girls.

Are we interested?
Well yes we were since it passed the time.
Hurry up and wait!

We were supposed to start at 9am but with the cloud and getting other things ready the first shoot wasn't until 11am. After the whole group photos and video, the Director had a couple of us doing beach ball games at the sea edge. Out of shot guys were spaying us with water to simulate sea spray which was nice and cooling, unless it went in our eyes and added a little reflective sheen. Unfortunately it also allows sand to stick to our skin and I can quite understand why oysters find these foreign materials irritating enough to make it the basis of pearl creation.
Some sightseers gathered by the edge of our shoot location with their digital cams and their phone cams and were snapping away even when the girls were trying to change costumes beneath beach towels. The guys put up some stands and tied police tape across them to hopefully keep the tourists, sightseers and other on-lookers back to a reasonable distance. These people kept moving the stands forward so they too could approach closer. Click, click, click went their little cameras and we'd pull faces at them!
They finally called time at three thirty and by the time we'd packed up we still seemed to have sand everywhere. We left an hour later and drove slowly back to the hotel with a couple of hours to spare before dinner. After showering away the sweat and sand and getting ready for dinner the girls gathered in the foyer. TW, Hitomi and I went and collected some of the police tape from the van and came into the foyer from the balcony entrance and stood looking at the gang and then we'd slowly edge forward behind our tape as we did. The girls were in hysterics as we pretended to be as unruly as the curious tourists.

After dinner we changed for a few drinks at the bar, Hitomi and I were not going to miss out on the gossip again or a chance at sampling even more local drinks and foods.
It's been a good few days here and I have enjoyed immensely the chance to work with my sweetheart and I am also happy that we sorted out the silliness that stood between us. What we have together is too precious to be torn apart and lost to idle and empty words.

We'll be home soon.
On Thursday morning we drove up to the town of Hirara for a little indoor work and a working lunch and then finally we managed a couple of hours looking around before the coach took us back to the hotel in time for dinner.
For the hot evening we gathered by the pool and as Hitomi was imitating the director walking around the pool and telling the girls how to pose she didn't realize he was sat close by having a beer with some of his team. They ran out and grabbed poor Hitomi and threw her in the pool.
Now that was funny!

Take care everyone, we'll be home soon.