Wow! Maybe exploring wasn’t such a great idea…

Holy moly! It’s friggin’ 30 degrees here.

And of course I agreed to go “exploring” the nearby town-ish thing.

BAD IDEA!!!

Soo hot. When we eventually got to the restaurant for lunch (which had amazing food… mmmmmm J), I had a huge sweat patch. Yeah I know- smexy right!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM. 49. ACHEIVEMENT!

Anyway, the thoughts and pictures of today so far (I’m going to the night markets tonight!!! Excited!!!)

7:11 am Phuket time

The room is nice but mum wants to see the beach so we are hopefully moving to a higher up arpartment soon. (our hotel- Phuket Ocean Best Western- is built into a hill and so all the apartments are scattered with stairs connecting them)

7:14 am Phuket time

A cute kitten greeted me on my walk down to the reception for another towel. (no kidding I swear there are cats everywhere!!)

7:20 am Phuket time

As im so impatient- I got bored waiting for dad to finish his shower so I went to walk around the hotel (no mean feat) and take some photos. Well I’ll tell you, Miss Quin would be proud of me- so many stairs!!! The whole top couple of rows of apartment are being renovated but I only realised when I was walking around them so yeah… nice views!!

7:42 am Phuket time

The day is cloudy but warm, not too humid. The sun is shining and I’m starving.

7:58 am Phuket time

I wonder what will be at breaky?

8:12 am Phuket time

Hmmm… eating is going to be interesting here. Breakfast took me 15 minutes to get them to understand that I wasn’t looking or wanting to buy nuts and peanuts but rather that I was allergic. The written translation helped and I got an interesting “omelette” with “everything”.

8:21 am Phuket time

They had sweet and sour fish for breakfast?

8:37 am Phuket time

Room update 2- nice view- no bed- number 3301- top floor (there are no lifts. At all.)

8:54 am Phuket time

Room update 3- awesome view- bed- pink, orange and green squishy things- up on the fifth floor- private balcony

8:59 am Phuket time

The room numbers are seemingly chucked around at random. Each bit of the hotel was built at different times (some still building – I walked around there and took photos. I was kinda scared I was going to get busted though for being there. Like I didn’t know if I was allowed or not)

9:03 am Phuket time

It is sweltering here!

9:20 am Phuket time

“pool. Ocean. Swim” I actually uttered these words  together in the same sentence. (and I wasn’t being negative to the idea!)

10:12 am Phuket time

My stomach throbs when I lie face-down on my hard-as-a-rock, unforgiving, futon-like mattress. Is that normal?

10:13 am Phuket time

A bundle of baht is has 1000 in it. WOW!

11:29 am Phuket time

A gentle wind caressed my face as I strolled through the beautiful streets.

Yeah right.

More like a hot, sticky wind assaulted my face as I picked my way over the half broken pavements, around shouting store owners and trying to avoid a run-in with the tuk tuk mafia (excuse the pun)

11:54 am Phuket time

Kut.

First impression? Scissors? Nup- actually our soon-to-be favourite, female taxi driver who is extremely chatty and happy.

12:42 pm Phuket time

Hmmm… is that a tomato or an ovary/egg?

 1:30 pm Phuket time

Wow. The boat house. Prawns wrapped in crispy angel hair noodles; garlic and pepper crispy calamari with a sweet chilli, fish sauce; and a fresh, light prawn, calamari and fish angel hair noodle salad for

Legitimately the waiter who served us, his name was “x”. WTF?

2:18 pm Phuket time

OMG! EMBARRASSING!

I’m standing outside the restaurant right, like on the beach at the top of these stairs. It’s quite windy right. Guess what had to happen?

My dress flew right up- like around my face and then this old man looked at me funny L

Anyway Miss you guys

I love each and every one of you
xxx

(sorry it won’t let me upload pictures…)