Tales of Flip Flop Theft

SORRY!!!! We've been horrible, and we know it. But i think we are going to have to blame this delay in posting on Koh pha ngan and its ability to suck out any functional human activity from all of its visitors. We did survive the full moon party! And what a party it was!!! However, its probably best described with pictures and unfortunatly they are being held hostage from us until our friend Kevin (our first American of the trip!) can post them for us. So deets of our amazing full moon night to come....

On the whole, Koh Pha Gnan can best be described by two concepts: insane partying and flip flop theft. We enjoyed the island with fred and anthony - one of who we met in singapore - and together we did a lot of lounging on Sunrise beach (where the full moon party took place) which had very wavy water finally, and enjoyed many a video and dinner resteraunt on the nights we took off from partying. We even managed to find a place that played sex and the city and served falafal - perfection! we stayed there for a good two hours...

just a little pic of the fun had on the island. please note that fred is also taking a picture of this and that neither of them was able to sip the undisclosed beverage for several tries as we were all laughing too hard. gooood times.

our home.

Seven pairs of flip flops and countless loss of brain cells later we packed up and took the team to Koh tao. or so we tried...on our first attempt at leaving the island we accidently missed the last ferry and so we rented a jeep for the day and drove around the island. its a very hilly and beautiful island with gorgeous views from the back of a jeep, not a day wasted at all. At one point we even came across 5 elephants at the side of the road, much like you see cows at home!!!

eventually the next day we made it to koh tao and fred signed up for his open water course as the rest of us are cool and experienced and certified scuba divers! thanks to him signing up we got to take advantage of cheaper accpmidation they provide....thank god as everywhere else on the island was booked up with the overflow of people continuing their travels from koh pha gnan and the party (as its the neighboring island). so once again we got to enjoy the splendidness that is koh tao except this time we always had a word of the day the boys would teach us as they say we dont speak proper english (our favourite was "pastings" tho we are still deciphering the true american english translation). the word could never be premeditated, it just had to come up in conversation. so this time around, we learned on koh tao and had a real cultural experience! or so we can pretend. we also filled our days with countless rounds of very intensely competitive cards. it got a little ugly sometimes.

sadly, after 11 days together, we said goodbye to the team. it was sad to go our seperate ways but Steph and i had to head up to bangkok to sort out vietnam visas and meet ARIE!!!! last night we went out with a friend from koh tao that we met one of our very first nights of traveling and his um girlfriend i guess...either way we went out for dinner on Khao San Road and then were heading by tuk tuk to a further location (we wont get specific but lets just say it involves a banana, a cigerette, and the writing of a letter) when suddenly a motor bike pulled up beside us as we were speeding down the street and grabbed the purse of the sweedish girl right off of her!!1 it was the quickest thing i have ever seen. Unfortunatly it was the second time its happened to her so she was more composed than either steph or i would have been if it had been us. sooo instead of cappiong the night off with a wild adventure and a good time, we ended up at the police station till 2am. ah well, we're meeting in 30mins to try to give the night a go again. anndddddd we will be seeing arie for the first time since november 2005............so gotta run!!! sorry for being so bad with the postings and we'll keep trying to be better!!!

to leave u, heres a sideways pic of mbk the best mall in the world that steph and i are probably going to live in forever here in bangkok. if u need us, look there.

xo