PHUKET 2011

Our biggest tour yet! 20 or so netballers plus various groupies, supporters, photographers, umpires & scorers descended on Phuket to stamp the Tigers ethos on an unsuspecting community. After checking into our lush accommodation at Manathai Resort, Surin Beach, and a restful night with hardly any antics (no tv's in the pool!), the netballers headed to the British International School to take on the Phuket Bees.

The netball competition was ferocious. Fortunately the Tigers had paid no attention to the Bees' claims of lacking fitness, and were ready. We fielded two full teams, had a combined team with girls both Bangkok & Phuket, and faced one full team from Phuket. After several tough games, by time the finals came around the Phuket Bees were undefeated, and our Tigers Margaritas team had only been beaten by the Bees.

The final was a tough, even match, but the Tigers got up to win by the narrowest of margins - ONE GOAL!!! Thanks so much to the Phuket Bees for putting on such an awesome tourney, Bumrungrad International Hospital for being tour sponsors, and special props to the Bee with the brainwave of freezing quarters of orange for a delightful refreshing snack!
After the games we went back to the hotel for the REAL business of the tour: sunbaking by the pool & on the beach.
The group festivities continued into the night with a gorgeous sunset dinner on the beach.
After which the girls who were determined to keep the party going headed to Patong, and while what happened there now remains a source of speculation and rumor, rest assured that what goes on tour, stays on tour!