The trip 'Down South' Days 1-3

Hey, guys! I guess It's been a little more than 5 days since I last saw you, eh?

Our trip was awesome! The first day was a day of traveling. We got on our first plane at around 8:00am, and came into Bangkok at around 9:00am* (The picture on the right is actually of Bangkok.). Then we had a long layover until 3:15, when we went on another hour-long flight to Krabi (crabby). then we had to figure out how to drive to the hotel in the rental car. The car was cool! In the backseat there were reading lights, air-conditioning vents, and even a panel that, when you opened it, opened into the trunk!

At the 5-star hotel (we couldn't get anything cheaper, because everything was full, and so we had to stay at a really expensive place) there was a minor problem about the extra bed that we wanted set up, but it was soon fixed.

The second day was fun! We walked and swam in the ocean for a while, and then Kali and I went and swam in the pool while the parental units went for a walk along the shoreline. I love water! Lunch was very good, we went to this non-touristy place that had wonderful food, and it was all hand-made from scratch- our fruit shakes even had flowers on the rim of the glass!

But it was the third day where we really did something. Bob and Sherri had rented a private boat to go on a tour to four islands instead of going on this jam-packed tour boat. The third island was cool. There were three islands in an L-shape, but it was turned so that the long part was going horizontal and the short part was going straight down from the right side. The cool thing was, when it was low tide you could walk all the way between the three on a stretch of sand without even touching the water! There was some snorkeling there, but the coral was all dead and the fish blended into the brown dead reef, so you couldn't really see them. My mask kept fogging up anyway!

The next island we didn't even go to, as it was very deep water and no shore, and since Sherri didn't want to go snorkeling without getting to rest on shore, we went on. Even though I half agreed with her, I wish we had stopped, even for just ten minutes, because that was supposed to be the really good spot for snorkeling.

The second island was fun, there was a beach, and we saw some of the rainbow parrotfish and other cool stuff. But it was on the third and last island that disaster struck. That was the island that we lunched on. First Kali and I found out that, despite putting on sunscreen numerous times, we still got sunburned. Poor Kali had it all over her back and shoulders, while I just got it on my shoulders. I wish I had gotten the worse sunburn, since Kali went through a very hard time. But that was not the only thing that happened! There were monkeys on the beach, and Bob the camera guy (:D) went to get a shot of them. They came closer to him, threatening. Then, a monkey suddenly bounded forward, and pushed him off the jagged rocks. He cut his hand and his foot pretty bad. Luckily Sherri, being a pharmacist, had brought neosporin and stuff to help him. And, since trouble always comes in threes, it started pouring down rain right then, so we went home. The first part of our trip was over.

*P.S.- I just wanted to let you know that the pictures are just background, and that all the real pictures from the time down south are on Bob's camera, and they left to go back to the United States when we got to Bangkok on our flight back.