Righttt this is going to be a long one..anddd i've once again forgottten to bring the diary so it's all from memory!

Hmmm..well after mayalsia truly asia we got a ferry to Sutan (or somethign along those lines!) and then a tuk tuk style van to the bus stop where we waited for a bit until our lovely pink coach arrived to take us to Phuket. The bus was pretty coool it had crazy coloured lights in it and we were kept thoroughly entertained with insanely cheesy Thai kareoke videos which were just the funniest music viedos uv ever seen!

We arrived at the bus station in Phuket and jumped into a taxi to go the mermiad hotel where the guys were already waiting (theyd left mayalsia early to go to phuket for harrys birthday) except we were unaware that there were actually 2 little mermaid hotels in phuket and of course we ended up at the wrong one! we then had to call andy to ask where the hell they weer nd then jumped onto a tuk tuk which was conveniently waiting outside (blatently knew that people end up at the wrong one!)

we then arrived at the real hotel and had dinner..then a few hours later me and char indulged in room service :D which was freakin hard work to order ..language barrier makes phone ordering a little tricky! plus char can barely handle the english language herself (howd u say it..cheese on ree?..no char its ryeee!) the guys updated us on all their funny stories from their birthday outing (andy ended up in a swamp..hes still unsure how..only to wwalk out into a crowd of thai people laughing at him! he then got a ride home from a ladyboy on her/his scooter!)

Whilst in phuket weee chilled on the beach (me and tet gave in and bought some tanning oil! smells like banana!) until it poured with rain and we retreated back to the room! one evening we planned on going out n got all dressed up and ready to go until nath got paraletic and tet thought we were vampires trying to kill her! I thought it would be wise to get nathan some food before we put him in a taxi back to Patong where they were staying and so went through the ordeal of ordering room service..only for him to throw his breadroll out the window and then vomit on the food tray! was an interesting night for me and skin who remained pretty much sober! The next day we went along to watch george do a 60ft bungee jump which looked kidna scary! then we went to Patong shopping centre which was well cooool :D

Breakfast buffettt! how could i forgot! With our hotel you could pay 100 baht a day and get breakfast tokens for the all you can eat breakfast buffet! mmmm it was soo good! (you had to be up before 10 which was a bit of a downer but soo worth it!) the carnivores munched on various things of the meaty variety while me and char OD'd on banana muffins and fried potatoes mhmmmmmmm :D

From Phuket we got a minivan (which turned up half an hour late and was so squashed char couldnt actually sit back her chair was so full of luggage!) and then got THE WORST COACH EVER! we sat at the back and at first i was really happy cos the seats were nice and reclining and everything was fine until it started pouring with rain and we were pretty much flooded as the coach had giant cracks in the back right above our heads! char and andy moved to two dry seats to escape the dripping but me and tet ha to siut with our blankets over our heads..was not impressed and so we arrived at bangkok feeling pretty grouchy!

We arrived in Bangkok at about 5am and checked into the Siam Oriental Inn where we were greeted by a funky smelling room with s*** (sorry parents..i mean poo!) coloured sheets and an infestation of ants! Oooh the places we stay..so classy!

We got up at about 12 (me and char had a sneaky BK for breakfast while the others slept..ssshh!) and headed to the Vietnamese Embassy to sort out our visas..which was an experience in itsself! We got in filled out our forms and then realised we had to passport photos so ran over to some crazy shopping centre and had them taken (im telling you we look REALLY attractive :p) only to find out they were going to take 15 mins to process and the embassy was shutting in10! Luckily we are complete geniuses and devised a plan to buy us some time! Char and tet ran back to the embassy and started verrryyyyy slowlyyyy filling in another form while i waited for the photos which were finally done with 3 minutes to get back before they closed! I (beign the super athlete i am!) made it back just in time (but got seriously laughed at by everyone i ran past on the way!) while char and tet watched we come flygin round the corner on the cctv! we paid for our visas andddd then headed to chinatown!

In chinatown we found one of the crazy -make-ur-own-soup places where we (as always) got laughed at by the Thai people who seemed quite shocked by our presence! We did get crazy free ice tea that tasted like biscuit mix though! We then wandered round chinatown trying to follow the map in our lonely planet book until some nice thai woman and her cuteeeee kid gave us directions! We found an amazingggg little shopping centre type thign with the most amazing jewelrry! Defo going back there before we leave!

From the 12th till the 15th its been Thai New Year (aka Songkhran) which is basically just an insane (and i mean insane!!) water fight! The entire street (Khao San Road..which is the main backpacker style street and surrounding area) which is usually covered in shopping stalls and thai food vendors got cleared away and replace by giant tubs of ice cold water and stalls selling a crazy variety of water guns! We stocked up on guns- char chose a nice baby-themed gun shaped like a milk bottle! while i got one with a crazy cat on and Nath went all out with a bear shaped back pack style contraption- and joined the festivites!

At the beggining of Songkhran it was pretty much just water fights..which was wellllll fun, we just ran around like crazy people shooting anyone in sight (our main game plan to defend ourselves from attack was to just shoot them in the eye and blind the hell out of them before they could get you first!) we bought head bands and cheap tshirts and cut them up and wore bands round our arms too! we looked welllll cool :p The first real day of the festival (it started early!) brought along The Clay, from this point on all you could see, hear, smell and taste was pretty much clay! We got clay in our ears, eyes and up our nose (char called it clay bogeys..cos shes so pleasant like that!). Still not sure whyyy you get covered in clay but you do! After a while the fun began to wear off and it became a suicide mission just to get to the shops for food! We ran out of toilet roll and ended up eating in the hotel restaurant for pretty much every meal! I started charging people to make runs to 7/11, maccy d's and burkger king with a little pad of paper full of orders! On one such trip i met some guys in mcdonalds who told me they were terrorists and pwere planning to bomb khao san the next day..they continued to shout "have fun tomorrow" in a creepy voice as i ran across maccy ds and out into the water/clay infested street! It was a traumatic event! Seeing as we were stuck inside our hotel room most of the time me and char thought we;d attempt to get mcdonalds delivery which was a pretty amusing time! The first time i called i was deafened by a high pitched voice shouting "sawadee-khaaa" down the phone before telling me to press 9 for english! they asked for our phone number..which we didnt know so she told us to call back and hang up..so we tried again with the phone number in front of us only to be told she needed the hotel number n she hung up again! we called back and i got very confused by her thai accent and thought she was asking where in bangkok we where so i kept saying "khao san roaddd!" only to listen again to hear she was saying 'dooo u live in a houseeee or hoteeeeeeel or a mansionnn or a condoooo" in a very amusing thai accent..we gave up n hung up after a while!

Urmmm nights out...one night we planned to go out to a few bars along khao san..char got very drunk and was shouting some very amusing comments at the top of her voice down the street! at one point we were approached by a man propositioning us with a ping pong show...i told char to ask what he was talking about..and when he presented us with the menu of different ping pong show choices char screamed at the top of her voice 'you DIRTY MAN SLUT YOU DISGUST MEE!' terrifying the little thai man away..skin was left thoroughly confused- the poor girl was still convinced a ping pong show meant some kind of sporting tournament!

Another night me char andy chris and harry decided to head to the SuperClub and had an interst taxi ride there! Got stuck in traffic for god knows how long while we were all in physical pain needing the toilet so bad! We tried to distract ourselves but evrery conversation resulted in toilet talk until we go to the point we were in so much pain we jumped out the taxi before arriving to our destination and relieved our pained bladders! The guys..being guys..walked a few metres and went right on the side of the street whereas me and char has alittle more trouble! We climbed through a fence, stood up and saw we had an audience of people sat at the pool side bar of a resort! we casually walked round past them and headed through the car park to a toilet and then briskly walked back round the pool and through the fence again..we got some funny looks! The club itself was insane..looked like a combo of the inside of a skeleton and something from beetlejuice (except no one seems to k now what im talking about with the beetlejuice thing!) and the music was very very loud and a little too techno for our liking but still..we bought a bottle of vodka between us as the entry ticket (u either pay for a ticket or buy a drink..strangee!) and me and char had funn running on stage n char pretended she was singing into the non existant microphone!

The next day..or maybe the next god knowss..we got up and headed to the grand palace (thought it was about time 6 weeks into our trip that we did something a little cultural!) but before w made it inside we had to find somehwere suitable to put on our long length clothes! we headed into a very nice little cafe and took a seat in the corner while tet and char tried to manooooover (still cant spell it!) out of there skirts and into there pj bottoms! I just whacked mine on over my shorts :D We met skin and nath and began ourrr walk around the palacee which is made of goldddd mmm shiny! We all went a bit snap happy and ended up taking hundreds of photos of pretty much everything! It was soooo hot and we were wearing wayy to much clothing..tet got nice and sweaty and we got some really attractive photos of her underarm patches mwahahaha! After the grand palace weheaded to MBK!

MBK is the insanely big shopping centre and entertainment complex with 8 floors and a mahoosive cinema and bowling alley at the top! So far we've seen Fast and the Furious anddd Monsters vs Aliens 3D (where we got to wear cool 3d glasses!) in the comfyyy seatss :D Today we went bowling as well (i got a pretty impressive score of 12..while nathan wo nwith 79!) We've been to MBK wuite a few times to escape the waterfightinggg and wandered round the crazy amounts of shops..we all fell in love with a shop devoted entirely to hello kitty! and the donut shop and swensens were also favourites :D

Yesterdayyy we planned to go the museum of forensic medicine (i wish id never mentioned it!) which i found under a section in my book entitled "bizzare bangkok"! the museums main attraction is the bloodied tshirt of a guy stabbed to death with a dildo as well as other murderous artifacts...this horrified me but char (being a bit of a physcopath herself) got very excited and insisted we all went! So we heade out the back exit of the hotel onto an alleyway to try and escape without getting too wet or clayed..of course this failed and we all got majorly clay-raped before spending what felt like forever trying to explain to various taxi drivers where we wanted to go! we finally got a tuk tuk driver who understood and began the journey only to get there and it be closed! we headed back but couldnt get home as theyd closed the road with police for what we assumed was royalty driving through!

Woahh thats a long oneeee and i probably forgot thingss!

Tomorrow we're getting a bus at 7am (kill me nowwww) to Cambodiaa and starting ourr tour of cambodia, vietnam and laos before returning to bangkok for our flight home (and more importantly some serious shopping!)

That is allllll

Lots of loveeeeeeee

x x x

P.S don't worry about the whole rioting fiasco as we were completey oblivious until everyone told us on facebook and it all seems fineee where we are :D