July 20th, 2009
Still hanging in KhaoLak : )
Hi everyone!
We are still at the Briza in KhaoLak–just woke up from our third night here and I think we are going to stay 3 more. We did “venture” into town yesterday to go to the tsunami museum and to the “market” . The museum was not like we were expecting…kinda small and nothing there we have not already seen on the internet–other than the 100ft long Police boat that was guarding the king’s nephew that washed one and a half kilometers inshore with the wave. They just left it where it landed–very weird to see. Troy took pictures, I am sure he will put in his blog…
The market was different than I was expecting also. Rachael too–she is sitting with me as I type this : ) It was more like a market for the local people than a tourist attraction. There were some stalls with souvenir trinkets, but more that were just everyday clothing as in underwear and pajamas, blue jeans etc. There was one that had only 20 baht stuff and it was like what we would call the dollar store kind of stuff.
Then there was the food. There were a couple stands where we got cooked food–these little deep fried donut hole things (which everyone, especially Rachael, liked) and waffles, but most of it was like where restaurants and food cart owners would go to get their supplies for the day–huge piles of whole fish and chickens with their feet and pig skin with ears still attached…those are just the things I saw—I looked away then as I was worried I would never eat meat again if I continued to look.
After we got back from the adventures in town, I spent some time researching accomodations on the net and then we all headed down to the pool. The pool here is awesome–very warm water. Which is different than the Chada where the water was very cold–despite the warm air.
We ate at Jo’s Seafood again last night–very yummy…I see why they get such good reviews and are open during the low season…they are at the end of a deserted lane on the beach but at the end that gets no foot traffic–but still manage to have several tables occupied. I think the resorts that are open are sending folks there…I am glad we heard the word : )
So I have a rough sketch of the rest of our journey–we are going to stay here for 3 more nights, then go back to Phuket (It was so awesome there!) But this time we are going to stay at Kata Beach. We will stay there for 5 nights, and then catch a flight back to Bangkok late on the 29th getting in at 12:30 am on the 30th. Our flight to Chiang Mai leaves at 6:45 am onthe 30th, so we will hang out in the airport in Bangkok for a few hours and then head up north to the mountaneous region of Thailand. We will be in Chiang Mai until the afternoon of August 8th when we fly back to Bangkok. We stay in Bangkok for a couple of days and then we catch our flight home from Bangkok at 10:10pm on August 10th–getting home to Seattle at 9:30am on Tuesday Aug 11th.
