This past week I got to spent 8 days in Phuket (pronounced Poo-ket),Thailand! Imagine Mexico’s streets with fabulous clear blue water and Thai food instead of burritos, and elephants frolicking along the beach. That, to me, is Thailand. The land of cheap massages, intense sun, baby elephants, and beautiful beaches!
It took three different flights to get to our Easter destination. One from Shanghai to Guangzhou, China. From there to Bangkok, and from Bangkok to Phuket. It took all day, but was totally worth it! On our last flight, from Bangkok to Phuket, Ben lost his first tooth! This was exciting for us, and was a lighter note for the long day of traveling!
The whole week we enjoyed the beautiful and un-polluted skies of Phuket! One would argue that I enjoyed then sun a bit too much! My second day there I got totally fried, due to being on acne medication that makes my skin really sensitive to the sun and also from the lack of sun exposure that I get in China. I wore a tee-shirt for the next 3 days because my thieghs and chest were lobster red and my shoulders were getting blisters…. L
Because of this sunburn, I had the perfect excuse to get a ‘sunburn massage’! This is a massage where they rub aloe vera on your skin and plan iced down aloe vera towels on burned skin! This sounds cold and absolutely miserable, but believe me, with a burn like mine, it felt wonderful!
We had the opportunity to drive around Thailand, and I found that my Uncle is pretty good at driving on the wrong side of the road! We drove by many elephant ride stands and also got to see some fantastic site from an outlook! On our third day, we got to go on a boating trip in a traditional Thai long-boat. We snorkeled at two different beaches and saw tons of fish in the crystal clear water!
After four nights in one hotel, we switched to a hotel about 30 minutes away. The 2nd hotel was very nice and had a much bigger pool than the last one, but what was even more exciting was that there was a baby elephant there! I was walking down the hall and turn the corner and saw a baby elephant a little less than 5 ft tall!!! I jumped back because I was so startled to see an elephant in a hotel! As we giggled and smiled while we walked by, it reached out it’s trunk and smelled me and my cousin with it’s wet nostrils! Hahah it was soo cute! The next morning we got to feed the little elephant breakfast and younger kids got to ride on her! It totally make my trip to walk to breakfast every morning and see a little elephant eating her breakfast too!
Back to school now. Bleh. Although my cousins school, Dulwich, had a week off for Easter, SSIS didn’t have even one day off for Easter! So I guess that’s what you get for going to an international school…they don’t have time for every religious holiday that comes up on the calendar, or we would constantly be out for school! Anyways so I missed a week for school. I have a bit of catching up to doooo!!!!
Type later,
Allie
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