After an 8 hour bus trip, 4 hours of waiting (from 4am – 8am), a 3 hour ferry ride, and a 1 hour bus ride to our hotel, we made it to Koh Samui!\u00c2\u00a0 It was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 it is so beautiful here and it is just like paradise should be.\u00c2\u00a0 There are palm trees lining a beautiful uncrowded beach. people constantly walk by with fresh fruit, henna tattoos, and foot rubs.\u00c2\u00a0 All very touristy but very relaxing and fun.\u00c2\u00a0 My SPF 50 sun screen proved to be no match, however, for the Thailand tropical sun, and i woke up this morning looking like a cooked lobster (sorry, dad…I really tried not to get sunburned).\u00c2\u00a0 No more sunbathing for me.\u00c2\u00a0 The hotel restaurant is overpriced and bad (they wouldn’t make the Thai dish i ordered spicy), but a short walk to the main road produces a pluthera of Thai options with not a white face to be seen (I swear tourists don’t walk anywhere!).\u00c2\u00a0 Adam and I found the best Thai BBQ in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 you choose the meat that you want (pork, beef, chicken, seafood) and mushrooms and veggies and you cook it up your self on this wonderful BBQ contraption.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine a miniature BBQ grill, but instead of the grill, there is a metal dome with slits on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Around the base is broth. So you BBQ your meet and the juices from the meat flavor the broth.\u00c2\u00a0 you add the veggies to the broth and you have some of the best tasting soup in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 You also get salads and desert – all you can eat. Total cost 89 Baht (a little less than $3).\u00c2\u00a0 We have eaten there twice.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much else to report.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve been spending our days laying on the beach, exploring the town, and snorkeling (although the visibility near our hotel is not great).\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yea, we decided to get certified to go scuba diving.\u00c2\u00a0 its a 4 day course, but we get to go diving on Koh Tao twice, which is supposed to be some of the best diving in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 i’m still a little terrified about the water (what with movies like jaws and open water forever ruining my enjoyment of the ocean), but i’m determined to get over my fear and do this.\u00c2\u00a0 i’ll let you know how it goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for all your comments and e-mails.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After an 8 hour bus trip, 4 hours of waiting (from 4am – 8am), a 3 hour ferry ride, and a 1 hour bus ride to our hotel, we made it to Koh Samui!\u00c2\u00a0 It was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 it is so beautiful here and it is just like paradise should be.\u00c2\u00a0 There are palm trees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}