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OK so we will divide this addition into sections. I intend to spell 90% of the words correct, gramatize at a success rate of 95% and only make up 2% of the words.
Section one: Southern Thailand
So Adam caught up with me for a couple of weeks in Bangkok and as i'd missed it the first time round we went to all the big sights like the Grand Palace and Wat Pho and saw lots of shiny gold things and dragons and chedis (squatting troll like things or massive pillars you can climb up - we're not sure which). Then ate lots of the yummy pad thai and drank freshly squeezed orange juice made form tiny little green oranges. Which would seem to be an oxymoron really. We had great fun taking pictures of us in the same positions as the statues. Because we are both street AND wacky.
The overnight bus to the Sothern Islands has officially rated as my worst overnight bus journey ever. And bear in mind I did a 40 hour bus that broke down half way through in Brazil. WORST. We were happily watching a bit of conchords, tried to nap - which is so much easier for me of course being short and having adam to lie on. Then we got turfed out at about 3am onto the road side with no more instructions. Hours (potential exaggeration possible) later, we were picke dup by a little mini bus and whisked to the ferry office. Where we were told it would be a couple of hours before the next bus would take us to the port. Then at the port we settled into a couple more hours of delicious plastic seating.
Fortunately Koh Taoh is beautful. All palm trees and blue seas. We picked up at bat and ball and became world champions, snorkelled around and found lots of coloured fishes, adam got a nice sunburn and i ran into an ex boyfriend. then we decided to get ourselves over to Koh Phagn Ngan for a bit of full-mooning (pun intended). Then we took the second worse piece of public transport I have ever suffered (poor adam, getting both in a 12 day trip...). A high speed catamaran. Forty-five minutes of stomach mashing turbulance on the open seas. If you weren't green it was because you had already vomited your noodles over the side. Or on the bloody deck where people (like US!) were standing. I mean, is the sea not big enough to aim at? We arrived and i had my usual barney with the taxi man that led to bad feelings all round and no reduction in the cost of the taxi.
Southern Thailand Subsection: Full Moon
Smile Beach Resort (oh yes!) was lovely and we were right on Haad Salad a nice beach miles away from the full moon shenanigans - not intentional incidently but quite a blessing. We continued our bat and ball training with vigour until full moon came round. in fact it was so wet you couldnt really see the moon which was a shame really and the drive to the full moon beach was proberly one of the most dangerous things ive ever done but we made friends eith Johanne and Tommy, two Norweigens - gotta love those scandos - and joined their massive crew despite our limited norweigen. we proceeded to do the done thing and get wrecked, be sick in the sea, lose people, drink unwise concoctions from buckets, paint luminous things on ourselves, and for me - get bitten by a cat i was trying to play with. then we loaded ourselves back on the taxi and went to bed before getting up to some of the worst hangovers in our entire life ever.
Southern Thailand Subsection: Rabies
So i got bitten by the cat who was pretty grumpy anyway as it was raining. It seemed pretty scared of the water so i managed to pretty instantly convince myself it had aquaphobia or whatever and ran off to get a plaster and have the chemist tell me it probably wasnt wasted. then we did the above and i decided to wait until the next day to have the massive needle poked in my stomach like the do in House.
I went to the doctors and they confirmed my worst fears that there was a vague posibility of the death-inducing disease (which adam confidently told me to not worry about cos 'its not like you're going to die of it is it? :P). I could buy the vacinations for 20 quid a pop and it would hurt 'a little, yes' apparently. I had a little cry in the doctors office like the complete and total wimp that i am. the nurse assured me there would be no pain, i gulped, looked at the TINY flipping needle that was going into my ARM anyway and felt like a bit of a prat. anyway, got the shots and am still alive.
The day after we felt less like death and went riding on elephants. we met a tiny monkey who i orginally named Monkey who ate adam's breakfast and climbed all over me. i fell utterly in love and am still pining that i couldnt take him with me. the baby elephant was a bit too sweet aswell. could have had him in my back garden. and also, (just to jump time frame slightly) i would quite like a vietnamese water buffalo to trample to rice paddies. Then came the mopedding, which was brilliant. Once again, must get one. We went to visit Monkey again to say goodbye.
Southern Thailand Subsection: Sokhran
When we arrived back in Bangkok after the slightly better return trip, it was their New Year. Which involves getting dreched whenever you leave the hotel. which is fine when you're armed with waterpistols and plasticatized all your property but not to fun when you think you can avoid it on the 3rd day of shenanigans when you just want to get your bloody rabies injection in peace. On a side note, the Thai hospital in BKK was well nice - obviously private - and made me feel a bit like Scarlett Johanson in Lost in Translation. Which is always nice. We got dreched and clayed by english t*** on the way home. and then rinsed off by tiny thai kids with a hose which was actually pretty cute as they shouted 'happy new year' in english and i couldnt really be annoyed. that much.
on the other side of bangkok people were dying. apparently. CNN continued to be one of the worse news channels in the world ever and we met some military when we tried to get to Jim Thompson's house which was mostly exciting because of our mate Jim who like, has the same name - wicked, eh? We weren't very much effected by the rioting to be honest but im sure you were all terribly worried about us.
Then I went to the airport and wrote my joke of a blog of the last edition, what with the incompetant keyboard that eroded all my spelling knowledge. I hope this one's better but to be honest i'm not going to check.
Coming soon:
VIETNAM, probably one of the best countries in the world ever. Motorbiking, Vietnamese weddings, Mr Phong, tailoring and much more. Stay tuned.
Also, im home in less than two weeks so start dusting off the red carpet please.
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