July 4th, 2009
Happy July 4th!!
Hi all! We are mostly going “off the radar” for the next 4 days or so–so do not anyone be alarmed if you do not see the regular amount of blogging or piginin’. The internet is not complimentray at the next place we are going–50 baht for 30 minutes (so that ends up being about $3 per hour–YIKES! Can’t pay that!! We are checking out of the Sugar Palm tomorrow morning and going to be staying at the Nova Samui in Ko Samui for four nights. Got another great bargain–pay for three nights, stay for four–so including breakfast for all–we only pay $19 per night per room–so we will get three rooms again as having that little bit of extra room to spread out has been nice. Now this place is a total unknown for us–so we will see how it holds up to the experience we have had at the Sugar Palm. Worse case, we are “unhappy” for 4 nights eh??
We did take a nice tour of South Phuket Island yesterday and a trip to the Phi Phi Islands today–so have been busy. The snorkeling today was out of this world…Russill was wondering how many fish there would be–I think all the fish in the sea were here for us today–He was pleased with the experience. To say the least! I do not know how they knew to do this, but there were a bunch of Japanese tourists on our trip that had loaves of bread–so they were feeding the fish and drawing them in for everyone to enjoy! Even those of us who did not don the snorkel and mask–we could see everything.
When I go the albums where the pictures are, I feel like they do not come close to capturing the beauty of this place–and even though I am in many of the pictures and were certainly AT all the places they were taken–I am still not sure I am really here. If that makes sense?? It is still a bit unreal…
We are all safe and happy–Russill told me today that last night he dreamt he had gone home and it was so real when he woke up and was here, he was confused, but then he was very happy to still be here…that means a lot to me!! Jackie had a little bout of fever and other symptoms that might indicate that she had eaten something funny (or Troy’s diagnosis was sun exhaustion). Either way–she had a fever for 24 hours or so of around 102 degrees and a lot of tummy pain. But we started her on the Cipro and she is improving–wahoo! I had a similar feeling and a slight fever–Jackie and i share a lot of our meals and drinks–but I think that her tiny body takes a lot less abuse than my “bigger” one does–so I toughed it out where as she needed a little medical intervention…
Oh yeah–and Becca–you are welcome!
