Thailand- What's Next?

We only booked our hotel until the 7th because we were not really sure what we wanted to do after that and the boys only rented their hotel for 10 days in Phuket and their last day was the 7th. After this we all had to get together and discuss where we wanted to go after next; if we wanted to stay together and do something or plan things separate and go our separate ways. The boys still have a few more weeks in Thailand and we only had 2 more days so it was kind of tough to make a decision.

All we knew was we all had to be out of our hotel by noon on June 7th. We got all of our stuff packed and decided that we would go on an adventure to track down the TAT travel agency in Thailand. This is the only travel agency in Thailand that is owned by the government so we assume that they are pretty trust worthy. We were going to book our plane tickets back to Bangkok through them and then see what other options we had for the next two days because none of us wanted to separate so if we could do something together than that was going to be our best option.
So us girls spent the morning packing up our whole room and showering and getting ready and all that fun stuff and then the boys came and picked us up in our rental car (the bean) so we can begin our trek. We needed to find this place and in order to find it we just had to ask around and figure it out. I think Alex (our very own, special edition GPS- with a brain) had somewhat of an idea but. . . . the rest was a surprise. Alex got us in the right part of town (a sketchy part) and then from there on out we were on our own.

We had the address in the Ipad and followed that to some extent but I don’t think that all of the addresses in Thailand are as reliable as when you put an address in there in America. So after asking about 40 NON English native speakers and 2 hours later we finally found the place we needed to be. Once we got there it was air conditioned and very nice, most importantly it had a bathroom. We all had to take off our shoes before walking into this building and once we got there we pretty much didn’t even know why it was so important that we got there. Our plan was to get plane tickets from them because it was cheaper that way but once we got there we learned that we could not do it through them so the whole adventure to find this place was pretty much just to use their bathroom. It was actually really funny once we got there because we really didn’t have an urgent reason to be there because by the time we got there we kinda already knew where the next few days was going to take us.

Since it took so long to find this place we figured out what we wanted to do while we were trying to track down this place. We were all just decided not to waste our time on traveling and just utilize the little amount of time we had left and fly to Bangkok to give us a night in Bangkok to experience that and the rest of the time just stay together and have fun in Phuket while we could. Alex and Mark thought about going to Bangkok with us again so they could show us the ropes but then they had to meet some other friends in Phuket so it didn’t work out. So we all just stayed together as long as we could.
After our adventure to find TAT travel agency we were all hungry and tired so we went to eat (of course we ate amazing thai food again) and then went back to Karon Beach which is where the boys hotel was at. We got a room at their hotel for the night and they extended their stay there another night also. There beach was a lot nicer than ours because it was a lot more quite. Ours was still really nice but there was so much going on that it was just crazy. We hung out on their beach for a little bit after we ate and just had a pretty relaxing rest of the day.

I know we played some cards and I also know that we took shots of vodka because we had a bottle to make drinks but we never drank it and we didn’t want to travel around with it and we didn’t want to waste it so we just drank some of it. We hung out in our room for a while since it was bigger and better than theirs and there was more room and a better view since it was up stairs. After sitting around and talking for a while we just went on a walk around the beach until it was dinner and then we found somewhere to eat and then ate and then did our evening swim in the ocean and then looked at some night markets and went home and went to bed. This day pretty much just revolved around planning the rest of the time there and getting lost. Getting lost is the most time consuming thing and it is a waste of time but it was actually pretty fun because we got to see parts of Thailand that we would have never got to see if we didn’t get lost.

There are absolutely no driving laws here. I guess the police are more focused on other things then the speed limit or passing any cars at any time. There are a lot of crazy things that I saw in Thailand, some of which involve their driving rules. No kids are ever buckled up, there are motorcycles passing through cars in the smallest spaces, cars passing you when there is a blind spot around the corner, elephants hanging out on the side of the road, and every once in a while you will be honoured to see a family of four all piled on a motorcycle to get from point A to B, for example; we have the mom, dad, young school child maybe around the age of 5 and then the mom holding the 2 month old baby in her arm. None of the members of the family will have helmets on or have any protection. This is 100% appropriate in Thailand. . . . So are a lot of other things that we would maybe question but no room for questioning anything in Thailand.

Even though this day was a little stressful dealing with getting the car for a couple more days and with hotel stuff, it was just fun because we were all in Thailand together and even though this part wasn’t as much fun, it was stuff we had to do in order to be there. So besides all of the busy work we still got to do our evening swimming, look at more night markets and explore this crazy country with no driving laws at all. And even though we did all of this we still got to experience trying to tell the Thai people in a nice way that we don’t want a tuk tuk, massage, DVD, sunglasses, shirt, shoes and anything else they reem you to buy.

MAI KAH, MAI KAH, MAI KAH!