Greetings from Tropical Paradise!

Hello again!

Since my last post we have made our way down south to the tropical island of Ko Phangan. This island is hands down the most beautiful place I have ever been in my whole life. To get down here was a bit of a rough journey, but well worth the effort. We first left Ayutthaya and drove in a very small pickup truck down to Bangkok. Once there we had a couple hours to kill so we all got some food ( I grabed meat on a stick, my fav. meal) and we also did some small shoping. Then at around 11pm we boarded a huge double decker VIP bus that drove untill 1am to stop for some lunch and then continued to drive untill 5am when we arived in Chumpon. This is were things get really rough, we then had to wait 8 horrible hours just for the ferry to arrive, and then an other 3hrs once on the ferry. But needless to say it was all worth it. So far we have done some snokleing, (there is a small island right in front of our hut that has the best on the island) and have also been eating alot! One other big highlight is that we found a little bar on the end of the beach that only plays reggae music and serves some things you wouldnt find on a menu in canada.. So needless to say we enjoy that place very much and usually go down there once a night. Other than that it has rained the past few days so we have been hanging around alot, playing cards and such. We are thinking of staying for 2 more nights before we make our way to Khao Sok Rainforest and national park. I hope all is well with you at home and know that we are loving every bit of this 30+ weather.

Take care
D

Hello From Beautiful Thailand

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first entry in my blog. We Departed Calgary Airport at 7:55 and flew backwards to Minneapolis and then to Narita in Japan, that was a looong brutal 12 hour flight, But luck was on my side and it turned out that the seat next to chad and i was open so I ended up laying down over both seats and managed to catch a little rest. Once in japan we met our friend Mel at the gate as she was on the same flight to Bangkok. After another loooong 7 hour flight we finally arived in Bangkok. What an insane city. We didnt arrive until after 1am so by the time we made it to the guesthouse we THOUGHT we were going to stay at, but it turned out that the guesthouse was full, as were many others so we had to do a bit of walking to find a place but we managed to find one not too far. After droping off our bags we all felt like we had a bit of energy so we went out for awile. We soon met a guy from the US who was fairly intoxicated and had become very lost. So we proceded to help this guy find his way, and there we are walking down the sidewalk when the guy just screams all the sudden and says "AWW I JUST KICKED A RAT!!!" I looked down to my horror and saw a rat the size of a small cat on its hind legs hopping towards me. Needless to say i freaked out and ran the other way. We ended up staying awake untill 5:30am and crashed. The next day we did the tourist thing and went and visted various temples and wats. One of my fav. things to happen so far was when we were visiting a temple called "the golden mountain" i ran into a group of young thai children who were incredably cute and just wanted to say the few words of english they knew. After saying hello and shaking hands we took our picture together and when i showed the pic to them all of they're faces lit right up, awesome experiance. After that we all practiced our best motorbike noise and had fun laughing with each other. Yesterday we went to the bangkok trainstation and got a ticket for a ride 1.5 hours north to Ayuthaya and it costed only 50 cents canadian, aw the life in Thailand. Once here we found a very beautiful guesthouse with a private pond and bike rentals. We went on a tour through the guesthouse to some of the various temples in the area and it was very interesting. Today wear are just taking it fairly easy and renting bikes and going around town. Its all been so much fun and i cant wait to see what elce this country has to offer. We are thinking of heading down south after this and it will be so great to relax on the beach for awhile. I hope all of you are doing well and i will try to keep this as up to date as possible. I am unable to get photo's on here for some reason so i am going to try to get some on facebook. Take care!!