On the Road Again...

First off, yes we know it sucks that we dont have pictures. However, if one more person sends us an email, a comment, any facebook contact or any communication in any way that we should post pictures, we will come home just to hurt you slightly. Well no maybe not. But it is extremly impossible currently to post any pictures of any kind, believe me, we have tried. The most successful we have been so far is waiting patiently 25mins in total to get not one, but two, error messages. When we can, we will post so many pictures you all wont know what to do with yourselves! For now please take the lead of my suddenly brilliantly computer literate mother and go to the Koh Tao website and then cry with jealousy! Thank you!

Unfortunatly, yesterday we left our home on Koh Tao. We felt it was time since our diving group had left and our room was no longer welcome to us unless we did more diving (which we do plan to do in a few weeks so that we will not only be certified scuba divers but ADVANCED certified scuba divers!). We were extremly sad about this, the island had really become our home and we felt so settled there. Its suprisingly easy to get used to the lifestyle we had - waking up to spend the day 18meters in the water, meeting for dinner and beer at the Irish Pub with our group, walking to Karma for some relaxing then heading for 25mins walking to Sairee Beach (mostly with a banana nutella crepe either on the way there or home or both) and spending the rest of the night (often into the wee hours since time doesnt seem to exist or affect anyone on Koh Tao) at a place called Lotus bar. Sairee beach is really a strip of clubs, resteraunts and bars with Lotus being the most lively and central. They set out mats and Thai cushons and there is always one to three fire performers, lots of cute, well behaved dogs and really great music that enivatibly leads to dancing in the ankel deep water. Then once the night was over we'd trek back to our beach front bungalow, immidiately fall asleep and start the whole routine over again a few hours later. It was heavenly.

But alas, we felt if we didnt get out yesterday, we might never leave. Especially since most of the people we spent time with on the island where people just like us who went there one day and never came home. It seems waaayyy to easy so as a precaution we made a plan to return and booked ourselves on a journey to Phuket. 12 hours of travelling yesterday (two ferries, a tuk tuk, a wait for an hour in the middle of nowhere, and a minivan ride for 4hours) we arrived and hated it immidiately. It was vastly different then our idylic island life, a busy city with 5 cockroach sightings in 10mintues. In an effort to not hate anything related to Thailand, lets blame the dirtyness on the Tsunami...although truthfully you could not tell such a destrcutive event ever occured there, except for the many Tsunami evacuation route signs posted along the coastal area. Perhaps we didnt give it enough of a shot but today we woke up and got the hell out of there! We are now in Krabi where we plan to do a lot of day trips to neighbouring sites (like Koh Phi Phi where the Beach was filmed). So far so good, nice hostel with HBO in the resteraunt which is a nice destraction and time killer.

Sorry I've been slacking on the emails but its been a lot of travelling time and such. Promise to get better as I miss you all very much. Hope everyone is managing the cold as much as possible. We promise to pretend to care and be sympathetic if youd like to talk about it. We'd perfer however, that you all just quit the whining (and your jobs) and meet us here. Sound good?