July 22nd, 2009
what can I say? : )
Well…we have spent 5 nights here in Khao Lak. It has been great! The place we are at is kinda remote from the town, so our time here has been much quieter and relaxed than in previous places on this trip. We went to “town” one day and other than wandering around and walking to a waterfall-Ton Pling (that is about a kilometer from our hotel), we have pretty much just hung out. What a treat!! We are getting so LAZY!!
It started raining yesterday afternoon and it poured BIG TIME last night with a lot of thunder. We woke up to rain and it has been showering all day–so other than putzing down to the travel place to book our transfer to Phuket for tomorrow–we have been hanging out in the room and on our balcony, playing cards and eating caramel covered yam chips. This is a little treat that we discovered in Ko Samui. I personally like yams in real life, so thought how could anything made out of a yam be bad?? Well sure enough, they are quite tasty. They come in a bag like potato chips and are just tasty–no other way to put it. I do not think Troy or BK are huge fans, but Ruby, Jay and I are buyers : )
There is a mini mart just outside out hotel with a nice assortment of really cheap snacks–so we go down there for 5 baht fudgsicles (15 cents) and oreos–that is where we got the yam chips–I think they were 10 baht though…we also got german sausage flavored potato chips (but we have not tried those yet!) I will keep you posted on that…the mascot on the sign for the minimart is a turtle, so we call it the Turtle Mart…
With the rain–the temperature drops a little, so that is nice–the day after we got here–we all got a little too much sun, so it takes a few days to recover from that. BUT the humidity goes up–so you never really lose that sticky feeling…
We ate at Jo’s Seafood again (3rd time) last night…probably the only reason we did this is bcz it was raining and the place we were at the night before, we noticed when we were there, that there were a lot of holes in the roof, and we commented at the time that it would certainly be suboptimal if it was raining..but what a shame as I had by far the best Phad Thai I have had since I arrived in Thailand at that place. We call it the Smile place…bcz that is the only word we can read on her sign. Maybe the rain will let up and we can go back tonight. The lady was very sweet when we got there, she sat us at a table with a plate of Thai fruit on it (mangosteens, rambutan, lychee nuts) and we disturbed it and a whole tonne of ants came out and started crawling everywhere–so we moved tables and took the fruit plate (very carefully) off the new table and put it on the other one—she came rushing over and asked us if we wanted the fruit plate back–she got a resounding “NO” from us all…we have had our fill of ants with the debacle in the kids room a few days prior. Not sure why they were invading them, but there have been no problems since they moved rooms…
Anyway–that is the news as I see it…See how relaxed I am about the little critters…it is the new me.
