Isolated Island Retreat

It has been many months of hard and stressful works for our Thai partners, and as we approach a year's time together we have decided to take them on a retreat to take a breather and debrief. I've written up a simple schedule with some debriefing points to ponder and discuss.
The park we planned on going to is closed because of an accident that left 7 dead. We weren't really sure where we were going to stay, but our partner Dean, providentially, found a wonderful little island getaway with bungalows. We will be the only ones there and for the 12 of us, it will be an amazingly low price. We will bring all our own food and drinking water, though. There are no stores there, and no restaurants. Should be an adventure, we will be there by ourselves except for 2 workers. If we need a boat to leave, we'll have to call for one.
Wow!
Last night we did a bunch of shopping, today our partners will finish it. Tomorrow we will park at the dock and take boat rides in on little wooden boats.

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