copy of email sent during trip to Thailand, December 2003 - January 2004
Well, still here, enjoying ourselves. went on a boat ride the other day to some islands I don’t know the name of. went snorkeling, etc. went to one place that had a cave you swam through - pitch black - when you got through to the other side there was this little round, secret beach where pirates used to hide their stuff. Really cool. The sides up were like over 100 feet. Don’t know if i’m describing that right, but it’s like if you were above, you would be looking down into a well with the beach at the bottom.
Last night was a quiet night - went to a beach bar down the beach (had burgers & fries - isn’t that sad, with all the thai food around?).
Christmas was fun, there are about 20 people in our group here and we did a secret santa - could only spend 40 baht, which is like $1.50. christmas eve we had a nice buffet dinner. tomorrow we are going on another boat to a place called Koh Rok for more snorkeling so it will be an early night tonight.
Last night the bathroom light blew out so I took a flashlight in with me and I found a scorpion on the toilet seat - look before you sit down here. It was just a baby, but I still don’t think my butt would have enjoyed sitting on him. Jeff & Nicole have a mouse in their bungalow, luckily we don’t, just lots and lots of skeeters, a few geckos & a frog.
Trying to decide whether to stay here until the 5th (when we leave for bangkok) or go exploring a bit. Like to see some more places, but all the travel places say that most places are booked up around new years, so not sure. it is also really nice and cheap here so haven’t decided yet. Well, I’m being charged a whopping 2 baht a minute here, so I’ll wrap it up. Hope everyone is OK, drop me a note if anything exciting is going on. I don’t know what day or date it is, but I’ll try & drop another line before we go to Bangkok, or when we get there.


