(Joseph) Day number I can't remember; as each day is so action packed that our new friends keep saying - I can't believe this is day two or three. Well anyway this is the day we transfer to Phuket. We are ready, the bags at the door at 7:30 and down to the fabulous breakfast. Checkout was to pay for laundry for two pairs of socks and a pair of slacks. We're on the bus and everyone is high from the great Bangkok experience. The fabulous bus gets on rush hour traffic and we're off to the airport, but on the freeway we're crawling along, and then we stop, and then crank up the engine and we are back on the road at 20 miles per hour. And then we stop. And we sit, and it is getting hot. so we were told to get off the bus on the freeway. We all get off and they are taking the bags off. Noi is constantly on the phone, but everyone is cool and joking about our trip. Oh well, everything will turn out fine - the plane leaves in two hours and we were expecting a crowded airport. We're joking and waiting, but there is nothing we can do. 30 minutes later the bus that dropped the other people show up and we off to the airport - and we were only ten minutes away - what luck.
We check in, it's a nice flight for an hour and 10 minutes. We now have a new guide and he is cheerful and friendly and gives up great tips about our hotel and getting around. So he says we are going to stop at the Tesco (a British Walmart) and he suggests that those who want beer or liquor better hurry in because we have 15 minutes to buy alcohol. (they have a weird law that says you cannot buy alcohol during working hours midnight to 11:00 am and 2:00-5:00 pm) So this gang rushes in like locust grabbing bottles of booze and cases of beer as our guide says that drinks are expensive at the hotel. We have an hour there so everyone could get lunch. Zosia and I followed his advice and got the pad Thai, but it was a bad choice because it took 45 minutes to make and we were the last on the bus.
We got to the Novotel hotel 30 minutes later and it is once again hot. It is a very orderly check-in, no credit cards just grab your key and we came to the room. We put on our suits for a swim and went out to check out the beautiful hotel on the famous Kamala beach. It was famous from the movie the Impossible - where the tsunami struck and destroyed the resort village 10 years ago killing most of the people. Our hotel is new and it opened a year ago. It is beautiful and the staff is so nice and accommodating.
So we're having a rum and coke and both of us feel a little queasy, no, not a little, a lot. So we go up to the room and two hours to the minute after the lunch we both have a bathroom explosion. It was hard to believe. Thank goodness our room was wonderful as we stayed there all day and night. We couldn't eat or drink anything but water as suggested by our guides earlier. But we were still in good spirits, but we couldn't go anywhere or else an explosion could happen at any moment. But we were together actually laughing about it.
The next day was our 36th anniversary and we spent the morning together in our room and on our deck watching birds in the vacant fields next door and saw 20 species, we were so pleased, I was a bit more mobile so I could get some medicine and some carbos to settle our stomach, but we were warned not to eat, drink, or have caffeine. It turned out to be a really nice anniversary together without any distractions, By afternoon we could go out lie on this big covered pad on the beach that was a large as a bed, we took a dip in the bay and then the pool, but we were very cautious. It was a wonderful way to spend our anniversary - together with no distractions (well almost none).
But tomorrow was going to be the first of our two day birding adventure so we were taking no chances.
We check in, it's a nice flight for an hour and 10 minutes. We now have a new guide and he is cheerful and friendly and gives up great tips about our hotel and getting around. So he says we are going to stop at the Tesco (a British Walmart) and he suggests that those who want beer or liquor better hurry in because we have 15 minutes to buy alcohol. (they have a weird law that says you cannot buy alcohol during working hours midnight to 11:00 am and 2:00-5:00 pm) So this gang rushes in like locust grabbing bottles of booze and cases of beer as our guide says that drinks are expensive at the hotel. We have an hour there so everyone could get lunch. Zosia and I followed his advice and got the pad Thai, but it was a bad choice because it took 45 minutes to make and we were the last on the bus.
We got to the Novotel hotel 30 minutes later and it is once again hot. It is a very orderly check-in, no credit cards just grab your key and we came to the room. We put on our suits for a swim and went out to check out the beautiful hotel on the famous Kamala beach. It was famous from the movie the Impossible - where the tsunami struck and destroyed the resort village 10 years ago killing most of the people. Our hotel is new and it opened a year ago. It is beautiful and the staff is so nice and accommodating.
So we're having a rum and coke and both of us feel a little queasy, no, not a little, a lot. So we go up to the room and two hours to the minute after the lunch we both have a bathroom explosion. It was hard to believe. Thank goodness our room was wonderful as we stayed there all day and night. We couldn't eat or drink anything but water as suggested by our guides earlier. But we were still in good spirits, but we couldn't go anywhere or else an explosion could happen at any moment. But we were together actually laughing about it.
The next day was our 36th anniversary and we spent the morning together in our room and on our deck watching birds in the vacant fields next door and saw 20 species, we were so pleased, I was a bit more mobile so I could get some medicine and some carbos to settle our stomach, but we were warned not to eat, drink, or have caffeine. It turned out to be a really nice anniversary together without any distractions, By afternoon we could go out lie on this big covered pad on the beach that was a large as a bed, we took a dip in the bay and then the pool, but we were very cautious. It was a wonderful way to spend our anniversary - together with no distractions (well almost none).
But tomorrow was going to be the first of our two day birding adventure so we were taking no chances.
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