....On To The Next Chapter!

Well, where to even begin! The blog has kinda been put on the backburner after our travel buddies arrived at the beginning of April.  Ang and Thad were great travel companions, and it's already weird to not have them here with us...but I'm just glad they could meet up with us for a month :) Geeg, the magnums already miss you; and Thad, the bean bag chairs at Fizz are calling you back already!!!

Since my last blog, we've done tons! We went to the full moon party, which was only a few short days after what we still title "the craziest night of our lives." It may have been a combination of that, and the fact that we were in the mood to people watch, but the full moon party for us consisted of some buckets, a few dances, some glow paint, and a ton of people watching. Seriously, if you like to people watch, Thailand should be in your future.

A few days after the full moon party, we decided to hit up another island. Koh Samui it was! We actually did quite a bit in Koh Samui! A big highlight for Leif and I was signing up for a Thai cooking class. Seriously, we've fallen head over heels in love with the food here...to the point where Leif actually has intense curry cravings each and every day; so we had to sign up for this class! We learned how to make ALL our favorite dishes, so we will be eating GOOOOOD when we get home! We also trekked up to a waterfall, where Leif saw the demise of his camera. From what I gather, this is a trend for Leif and travelling. Plunk went his camera in the waterfall. Thankfully, we still have my camera along!  We also went for a ridiculously fancy dinner, clearly it was MUCH too fancy to fall into the category of a backpackers' budget, so for this I would like to thank Lorne E. Schreiner for treating us all to that dinner! Sheesh, my tastebuds have been spoiled!  Lastly, we went to a cabaret.  Probably something we wouldn't have done if we hadn't had a few drinks at dinner, but we went and watched many ladyboys put on a rather entertaining performance.  It was actually hilarious as all the performers were men, but such convincing women! Two of the ladyboys had us convinced they were women, that is until they talked to us after the show and their voices were clearly that of a man! lol.  Good times!

Our last island was Koh Tao. Ohhhh Koh Tao. This island is where me, Ang and Thad did one of the hardest things of our lives....got our scuba certification.  For those of you that didn't know me that well two years ago, my biggest fear in life was the ocean. I overcame that a bit when I went snorkelling about a year ago, and then we came to Koh Tao and signed up to get our scuba certification. With the help of our crazy instructor Klaus, and my big sister playing her role as we got used to the equipment, we all got certified and went for four absolutely amazing dives!!!!! To anyone that's a wee bit scared, just try it out...the end result is amazing! We saw so much stuff underwater, an entirely different world! I can't wait to go again!

After Koh Tao, it was back to Bangkok to say goodbye to Ang and Thad. We splurged and spent a day at a nice hotel there, hit up the pool and soaked up some rays, and then went to the airport the next morning to say goodbye. Leif and I caught our plane to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  The traffic here is ridiculous, people are crazy friendly, and the little kids still melt my heart. A little one year old Cambodian boy was yelling "hello" to us over all the traffic as we were driving to our hotel in our tuk tuk. Sooo cute.  I'm sure Cambodia is going to be an experience as we plan to take in a lot of the sites of the Khmer Rouge and the recent struggles of the Cambodian people. Will be sure to keep you all updated :)

Glad to hear the weather back home is smartening up! xoxo

Ps a few pics to come in the next day or so, I have had quite the battle with posting pics on this blog!!!