Doin' it tuff in the Maldives

When I called my mate Dollar for his birthday I did not expect him to drop this bomb shell on me......: "we are surfing in the Maldives can you come for the weekend?"
With less than a week in hand I had to act quickly. What to do? Do I say "no" and regret it because I only catch Dollar once a year, or do I say "I am on a high burn rate already - just spend the extra cash?"
You can see from the attached that the higher burn rate option was taken, and I jumped on the 5.15pm Colombo flight and arrived 2 hours later. I even had time for a surf before it was dark, it's literally that close to Sri lanka.
And it was great to catch up with Dolski. He looked well despite his 20 hour flight from the States and the fact that he still hoovers more cigs than anyone else alive!!!
We had a great couple of days with Jo Coffee and a whole bunch of Darin's work mates from the US. The trip was $$$y, but well worth it as we scored some clean, but small surf and caught up with buddies from far away lands.
I am sure that when I left on the sunday night after surfing like a madthing all weekend that the rest of them were glad to see me leave. Lets just say that I had my fair share of waves...sorry lads but when you live in Colombo you need to make the most of every surf opportunity you have!!