Our flight was a quick one: 30 minutes. We had heard that a cab from the airport to Karon beach, our home for the next 3 days, would be about 500 baht and haggled again with about 5 different cab drivers until we found one that would meet our price.
We got to our Pineapple guest house which was more on the low end of the ones we have stayed in: a bigger bed with a cot showed in next do it. The place is a bit shady, but looks clean and is literally about a 500 meter walk to Karon Beach: that`s what it`s all about and we are paying about $6 each a night: more money for excursions and ``doing stuff``. that was our motto for this trip.
We literally dropped out things and were in bikinis on the beach by 10:20 a.m. By 1:30 pm, we had enough sun and went back to our rooms for an afternoon nap (for Michelle and myself) and Chelsea bought some breakfast food, did laundry and internet stuff ...hmmm, no blog writing, I seem to notice...you`re stuck with me as I go to bed the latest and usually write then, as is the case now :)
We all got a bit too much sun, I think. The waves were pretty crazy, so that we actually could only got in so far, There is quite an undertow so we only go in about mid waist. I always try to recreate my days in Australia body surfing and thought: hey, let`s do this here. well, the waves really were crazy and you were just churned upside down and had to go searching for your bathing suit, so no success. Maybe tomorrow.
Oh. One other story I should tell you: we have been having weird things occur with total strangers.
In our hotel in saigon, I had gone downstairs for something and came back up meeting a guy getting into our elevator on our 7th floor. Whhen I entered our room, Michelle and Chelsea were laughing hysterically. When I asked for the reason they said: this guy came into the room, farted and left (sorry, Mom...haha). I had left the door ajar and he just walked in, let one go and left again. well, that was in Vietnam, so let me continue with out story at the beach.
We had our towels close to the water (beautiful beach, by the way), and as the tide crept in, we kept moving our towels up the beach to a section which almost had this palmy grass. This older man was about 5 meters away from us but somehow seemed to be getting closer as we moved our towels once or twice. he would go in the water with shorts, but then would take them off and cover himself ``down there`` with a bandana which he would strategically place on his front.
well, at one time, I was lying on my front and turned my head the other way and saw something silhouette-like out of the corner of my eye: the bandana must have blown off and he was proudly showing his manhood to the sun...and to us. My, my. I got Michelle`s attention first and we tried to not laugh out loud so that we wouldn`t wake him, then Chelsea was brought into the loop and the three of us snickered while avoiding ad looking at that aside of the beach for the rest of our time there. Some people ..... I think he must have gotten a bad burn, too.... :)
At night, we booked our Phi Phi island tour for tomorrow and went our to a local restaurant on the beach which was recommended to us by the travel agent/tour guide down the street. Sweet woman whose daughter was also in the store with this crazy little poodle with a pink sweater on. I was trying to be friendly and did the `tsk tsk` to get the dog`s attention (it must have weighed 2 pounds). well, let`s just say that the cute little 3 month old poodle turned vicious and grabbed at my ankles, then snapped at my finger, hung onto Michelle`s dress, then her purse and we literally had to be rescued. The travel agent said : just pick her up, she will calm right down. Not on my life......demon dog. Where are my old geriatric little guys....they are calm, stay on the floor, don`t pee on it and don`t wear clothing.....
We are getting use to our little pineapple house without a real shower (just the shower on the wall and a drain in the floor like what I saw in Sweden and Macedonia at times), no tub or curtain. Easier to clean, though :)
We are loving the beach and the sun after all this rain. Life is gooooooood !
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our mansion incuding laundry room
our mansion incuding laundry room
What is up with the guy coming in and farting in your room??!! I'll have to tell the kids about that...they will think that's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI so enjoy hearing about your adventures...keep up the great blogging!
Seriously- I know! Michelle and I were sitting on the bed reading and there was a crowd of people outside the room by the elevator talking and we saw a shadow near our door but thought nothing of it. Then, all of a sudden, came the smell- I was like Michelle, was that you? haha, NOPE! We got fart bombed by a stranger!! Hilarious!! :)
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA!! You knew I had to comment on the fart story, I LOVE that!! He was crop dusting in your room hehe I also enjoyed the demon dog story!
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