Phuket trip #4

We came back to visit our Phuket friends Lo, Greg and Daryl! It's Daryl's birthday on Monday so we were having a celebration! Last night we went to a really wicked crazy party on Karon beach called Roy Fest. There were thousands of people and a huge stage surrounded by the craziest most delicious street food you'll ever see. Loud DJ R&B English and Thai alike. It was phenomenal! Dancing and drinking cheap beers (draft beer $1). Here is the link for it's description and advertisement. Pictures of the crowd and a few videos (or poor quality) will be posted shortly.

http://www.ubradio.net/events/royfest-karon-beach-phuket-royfest-karon-beach-phuket-946

http://phuketnews.phuketindex.com/art-entertainment/roy-fest-phuket-music-festival-will-gatherartists-from-around-the-world-170221.html

We spent Saturday morning kayaking and snorkeling in terquoise water with coral reefs below us. It was really windy so it was actually kindof difficult to see but it was fun and beautiful nonetheless.

Now it's Sunday, so we're packing up our little matching bookbags to head home again for one last week of teaching for the semester. One week!! yay can't wait for vacation !! (as if every day isn't a bit of a vacation...)

We booked our tickets. October 8th is the day that we leave for Indonesia, and arrive in Bali. Our ticket back to Bangkok is on October 21st, but we're flying from Jakarta. We like to travel the hard cheap way, so we now have the obstacle of trying to get from one place to another. I guess it's a bit of a treacherous bus/ferry/bus trip. We'll see!!! We are getting very very excited for cheap shopping, swimming in the sea every day, and learning a bit about Indonesian culture.

School takes back in on November 2nd (or thereabouts?) so we'll have a bit more time to kill once we return and wind down. We're considering spending a bit of time on Koh Phangan, but that's just a big maybe. I am pretty sure that I won't be returning to teach at Tuongwit when the semester takes back in. I think I am going to go travelling again! But Reffa wishes to continue teaching. Depends on if Rishard gets his buns over here for some country hopping or not I guess !

I'll be home for Christmas.

Bai Glap

Bai-Glap = went and came back already. Laos was really cool, but we only went to Vientienne, the capital city which is the nearest city to Thailand. It was a 24 hour busride.... basically non-stop-- YIKes we were sooo tired. But we managed to see just about everything interesting in the city that was within walking distance (we walked a LOT). We would reallyl ike to explore more of Laos. Possibly in October at some point? Not sure yet, but it was great fun!

We met two guys as soon as we were in Laos who asked us if we'd join them for dinner and they helped us find the Thai embassy (to do our visa's) and they helped us talk to the driver and lower our price and stuff !! they were really sweet guys and helped us learn a bit about Laos and all they wanted from us was to practice their English a little bit.

We successfully got our woking visas- legal in Thailand as teachers for 3 more months now!!! Only one month left of school though. Wonder what October will hold?

love love love, Laos pictures to follow on facebook this week.