and there we were with our hands together and we were about to pray and then we just never had time to because at that moment right then and there it was like a bomb went off. just the loudest noise you could imagine. it just kept on getting louder and louder and louder to the point where amanda and i were two inches away from each other s shouting we love each other, i love you, i love you. by that time the room was now shaking violently up and down, up and down. amanda looked at me and say, this is it, isn t it? and i looked back and for some reason i said no. the second i said that, i looked to my right and the wall just went straight through us. as an enormous wave exploded on to the coast of thailand, it destroyed everything in its path. for many the decision made in those first few seconds and minutes meant the difference between life or death.
threw her to the wall and mandy was looking right into my eyes. i started running back towards the buildings and back more inland. go, go, go. i remember turning and running and noticing other foreigners walking towards the beach. taking pictures. i noticed that kaitlin was running really fast. jamie s holding michaela s hand and she has these little high-heeled little flip-flops she s running in. then michaela dropped her journal, and when i turned around to pick it up, that s when i saw a wall of muddy, brown white water. it was at least two stories high.