July 16th, 2016
Saturday July 16-last full day in Au Nang
I had such an awesome day. We got super lucky with another great weather day. Woke up around 7:15am and got myself set up with a coffee, then hit the breakfast room around 8. This is starting to be my pattern. Although not tomorrow as tomorrow is a moving day and I’m not sure how or why I thought this was a good idea, but I’ve booked us on a 9am flight 😳this means I will be setting my alarm I suppose. Perhaps it had something to do with wanting to be I Chiang Mai in time for the Sunday market, I’m not sure. I suppose I’ll be glad when it is said and done, but really 1pm is a most civilized time to fly I think.
Regardless, my day is shaping up nicely here. After breakfast we came up to Kim’s balcony and I spent some time catching up on my blogs. As you can see if you are reading this live, I didn’t get very far. I will go back and catch up and fix up when I get better internet. The Internet is slow here, so uploading pictures is PAINFUL. But I will try to get he chatter down and upload pictures when my connectivity improves. (Big techy word eh?)
Around 11 or maybe 11:30 Kim and I decide to hit the streets of Au Nang! Since she has been down with tummy troubles, she hasn’t been out much. She is feeling SO much better! So we suit up, sunscreen and bug spray up, grab our beach bags and head out, leaving troy to whatever his heart desires (time alone with his kindle😉)
We stopped and marveled at the trinkets along the way, then decided to stop and eat, as it was lunch time and all. We chose a place that has pizza as that seems like it meets the new tummy trouble dietary requirements of my friend Kim (as per the pharmacist that gave me the meds for her). We split a delicious thin crust Quattro fromigano pizza (4 cheese). Hey put blue cheese on 4 cheese pizza here….it really yummy. Might try it at home….
Then we hit the beach. We walked the length of the beach first, then on the way back found a spot that met both our sun and shade requirements. I’ll let you decide who needed which….I went out into the ocean and had to go a loooooonnnnngggggg ways before I was chest high in the water, it’s very shallow beach here. Perfect for play!! Regardless, it was peaceful and beautiful and I spent a long time out there just soaking up the view, trying to remember everything. Around 2:45pm, we decided to look for a massage. Quick text to troy determined he was up for such adventures himself, so he met us on the min street and we ended up walking all the way back to the other end of the beach for a massage in one of the beach huts in the beach. Nothing quite says massage at the beach than an outdoor foot massage with the sun, surf and sand. Best 200 baht spent of the entire day. We hung about a bit longer, troy and Kim had a beer and I had a coffee milkshake. YES, you read that right, it was a milkshake made of vanilla ice cream, a shot of coffee, chocolate chips and a big scoop of mocha ice cream plopped on top. That was the best 100 baht I spent today 😊😊
Then we decided it was time for supper….based upon the recommendations of Kim and I, Troy was up for going back to La Casa for another round of pizza. So we did that. Three thin crust pizzas and some water later, we were stuffed!
Then an absolutely stunning sunset walk on the beach back to our hotel, capped off an amazing day.
Oh yeah, I think I’m driving Kim a little crazy with my penny pinching ways. We could have booked a car to airport in the morning for 500 baht if we booked it out on the street, but we forgot so asked the front desk, they are charging 600B, so I was annoyed and going to go back out to the end of the street to get it for 500B. Kim said absolutely not. For $3, she just wanted to get these guys to book it. I guess it’s true, but it still annoys me to overpay. It’s the principal 😉 maybe she will rub off on me, maybe I’ll rub off on her. Who knows, we have 2 more weeks to work on it! Maybe we will meet in the middle!
