Here are a few photos from our very long travel day to Phuket. We look so happy at the start of the trek....not.
The bus station. Atleast we weren't underwater right?
Titties and I took the opportunity to paint our nails.
So did Mick. He is just checking some emails while he waits for his nails to dry.
Finally arrived! Fancy shmancy tuk-tuk. Way nicer than the Bangkok ones.
Alright. Here we go. The good stuff. Obviously the first thing we did when we got to Phuket was hit the beach. This was especially easy to do because we lucked out again and found a very cheap guest house four feet away from the beach. Three to a room isn't bad when all 3 people have OCD. Yesterday was another gorgeous day and so far Phuket is definitely my favourite place in Thailand. The water is so blue, there is so much room on the beach, and best of all, there aren't prostitutes everywhere! Ahh the little things in life. There ARE tons of tourists though but it's a nice surprise when you are in a situation that is so absurd for us, but completely normal in Thailand, and you turn around and find someone who speaks English appreciating it as much as you do. OT.
Mick was a good sport and held our bags while we posed for our same same pictures. The good news is they looked great with his nails...
Twins! For some reason that is completely beyond me, the Thai's loooove the saying "same same". If you are at a restaurant and two people are ordering the same thing it's like Christmas to them because they get to say "same same!!" and it never fails to put a smile on their faces. Obviously we had to get same same shirts so we could be same same sisters and look really cool on the beach....
We stopped and asked a nice Korean family to take a picture of us jumping. The woman was an absolute champ and got this puppy on the first try. I know, jumping pictures are played, but come on, it still looks pretty cool.
Prettttttty. I think it's safe to say that I could die happy here.
Tanita and I found a jellyfish! It. Was. Awesome. We frantically looked around for something to poke it with. Nothing like a jellyfish to make you act like a six year old. Thankfully we found a stick and we happily poked it for a couple of minutes before finding a bowl to scoop it up in which made it very convenient for Tanita to throw it at Mick.
There are tons of little shells like this all over the beach. They look like thousands of tiny butterflies.
This concludes the first beach session of the day. We are averaging two a day. Sometimes three.
Beach session number two was beginning just as the sun was thinking about setting. What could be better? Well it might have been the tiniest bit better if a certain someone was here, but I'll take what I can get.
Perfect end to the day. We got all clean and went out for a lovely dinner. We ended up going to a place where there were 3 women singing live and they were taking requests. We took full advantage and were delighted to find out that not only did they know the entire Adele 21 album, but they loved singing it too.
Alright everyone. Intermission. That was day 1. I understand if you guys all need a break, stretch your legs, check your facebook. Okay. Feel better? Gooood.
Now, TODAY. Today we rented scooters. Yep. Scooters. And I have never had so much fun on a motor vehicle ever. Buuuut it took some getting used to. For one thing there was that whole 'wrong side of the road' thing. Pretty darn terrifying when you go ripping around a corner and see traffic coming towards you, and since you are used to being on the side of the road the traffic is coming from, you get all confused and for a split second you think you are literally going to die. Then you remember you are on the right side of the road then life is all good again. Until the next corner. Then there is the fact that nobody regards the lines on the roads here so it is pretty much just chaos all the time on the street with people passing each other and scooters weaving through cars. Somehow it works though. And it is really fun once you figure it out.
We decided we would go beach hopping since we had these super awesome scooters to get around on and we scooted out of Patong beach and up a windy tropical road that was just lovely. And did I mention windy?
We spotted a secluded beach off the road and made our move. HOLY COW. The most amazing place on earth. I almost fainted. Somehow we managed to find water that was even more blue and there were about five other people on this beach so it was allll ours.
Life was good and we were enjoying the water...for about 10 mintues. Then things didn't go quite according to plan when Tanita went to check out the rocks. We learned last week on the island that the rocks are very sharp when I got a tiny cut on my foot that bled like crazy. While Tanita was climbing on the rocks she got pushed over by a wave then kept getting pushed by more waves. When she was finally able to get herself out of the rocks it looked like a scene from a bad horror movie. I haven't been around too many flesh wounds, torn acl's yeahh, sprained ankles sure, but flesh wounds, very few. So this was the most amount of blood I have ever seen in my life.
This was about 5 seconds after she got out of the water. It got worse. Much worse.
Like the good little chipmunks we are, Mick and I jumped into action and spent a good half an hour cleaning her cuts, trying to communicate with the locals using hand gestures for bandages, and trying to clean the 3 litres of blood off the floor of the bar. I got more of Tanita's blood on me than I would have liked but finally she was feeling better.
Tanita is an absolute firecracker. I am so impressed with how she handled this whole ordeal. Every single other girl I know would have cried, or freaked out by all the blood...basically handle it like a normal person. But not this lekker girl. She did not shed a single tear, and downplayed the whole thing. Seriously she is freaking. She barely even flinched when we were putting salt water on her wounds. When we said we will go back and take her to the hotel you know what she said? She was like no way, let's go find another beach. So we wrapped her feet in toilet paper and tape, gave her my toms so sand wouldn't get in her cuts, and she limped her way over to the scooters and away we went.
So we found another beach! We sat down and had a fruit smoothie then Mick and I played in the water while a kind Thai man helped Tanita put Aloe on her cuts. Back in business.
Okay this post was suuuper long and I'm sorry. I will seriously start planning these out better so it doesn't take an hour to read. So I will leave you with a video of us riding on the scooter! And let you know that I wish I could shrink all of you and put you in my pocket and take you with me everywhere I go so you could see the things I am seeing!! Love Mackensey
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