Jan
13
Leaving family and friends is the hardest thing to do, especially when you don’t know when you’ll see them next. It was great to have a lot of our closest friends turn up to the airport to see us off. After a teary farewell we made our way though the departure lounge and boarded the aeroplane off on part one of our honeymoon in Phuket, Thailand!
The minute we stepped off the plane in Phuket we were immediately saturated from head to toe because of the high humidity and it was so hard to breathe!
Even though it was monsoon season, there was plenty of sun and it definitely has picked up in the tourism industry after the Tsunami. The food here is so cheap (especially seafood) so we’ve been pigging out on rock lobster, prawns and fish almost every meal. I’m starting to get used to seeing your food alive before you eat it because its all fresh over there. The hotel we stayed in was pretty awesome. It’s call The Royal Phawadee Village and they just opened in October so it’s quite new. We told the staff members that it was our honey moon and they delivered flowers to our room every couple of days which was really nice.
During our stay in Patong Beach we did all the tourist things like shopping (very bad move… we were 12kg over our limit even after getting an extra 20kgs)… we went island hopping, snorkeling, canoeing and I did some scuba diving. Compared to the diving that I’m used to, diving in Phi Phi Islands was such an awesome experience. We went down to 22m and the reef life was thriving. I’ve never seen such a vast variety of coral species and marine fish. In one area I was surrounded by over 200 barracudas as they circled a pillar of limestone. It was truly a breath-taking experience…
While shopping and sightseeing we figured that it was taking us too long to walk along Patong Beach so we were game enough to hire a scooter to get around. As crazy as it sounds driving in Thailand wasn’t too bad… Just as long as you ignore all the Australian road rules you’ll do just fine! I think the car to motorbike ratio is something like 1:10… so it was a case of safety in numbers!
Now that the lazy part of the holiday has ended and we leave sunny humid Thailand to the cold climates of Vancouver… that’s if we get there. We had to fly from Brisbane to LA and because of “Homeland Securities†extremely efficient and competent staff we managed to miss our flight. For them it didn’t seem like a big deal and from what I gathered it seemed like it was a common occurrence. They just scheduled us onto the next flight out which happened to be 5 hours later… I’ll fill you in on more of the adventures… or miss-adventures of Saj n Tash.