Random Thoughts

One of the most interesting, cute and scary sights I have seen in Thailand is the kids going to school - not in cars or on buses - but on the back and front of their mom or dad's motor bike. Yes, 2 or 3 kids are on one bike with a mother or father. It is crazy. Hundreds of motor bikes all taking kids to school. Some very little kids half asleep, some eating breakfast - none with helmets on!! The parents wear helmets but not the kids. What's with that?

It has been a few days since I wrote about my adventure. It is really hard for me to concentrate on writing when I am on vacation. I have seen lots of great things and done some amazing things - elephant ride, bamboo rafting, etc.

We have done a lot in our two weeks and I think I am going to have to go home to have a rest but it's been amazing.

After our day trip to Koh Phi Phi, we went by boat from Phuket to Koh Lanta. This is a smaller quieter island. Our resort was called Blue Andaman Lanta Resort. It was quite nice although the people at the front desk were not very friendly. The young staff members were cute (mostly Muslim) and we met some really nice people - a couple from England who live on a boat in Greece and have done so for the past 6 years. They invited us to visit them in Greece so I think that could possibly be my holiday in the summer before I come home!! We also met a really nice Australian couple and a family from Italy. There are a lot of European tourists here.

We basically 'hung out' at the pool and beach (not a great beach - at low tide there were all these rocks sticking up - kind of interesting but kind of lousy for swimming). We left there yesterday and took a boat to Krabi province to Railay Beach. Now Railay Beach is BEAUTIFUL. Huge craggy limestone cliffs and caves, monkeys and beautiful sunsets. This is our last night here. Tomorrow we take a long boat to the pier and then a taxi to the Krabi airport to fly back to Bangkok to pick up the rest of our clothes that we left in the hotel where we stayed at the beginning of the journey. We will repack, shop a little more and then head to the airport. We are going to pull an 'all nighter'.

We fly the first leg of the return flight together to Hong Kong and then separate.

All in all an amazing adventure!! Let me encourage you to go out and see the world!! It is SO WORTH IT!!