McGuire's of Arabia: Thailand Part 2: Koh Samui

In Thai the word Koh means island. That's what we spent our last week in Thailand on called, Koh Samui. It was pretty much a tropical paradise with the hustle and bustle of busy beaches and shopping/dining strips.

We stayed at a pretty nice resort on the beach and spent a lot of time doing nothing. We decided a nice relaxing week before going back to school would be nice. Our time was spent lounging on the beach, taking naps, eating some good food (sometimes on the beach), and browsing the little shops on the streets.

We did do a little bit of adventurous stuff as well because I (Jamie) can only sit in one place for so long. Our first adventure consisted of swimming in a waterfall, riding an elephant, watching a trained monkey pick coconuts (kind of sad actually), visiting a mummified monk, which was not mummified, but just under decomposed, and visiting a caged baby tiger (also sad to see) and baby elephants. Our second trek was out to Angthong National Park to do some kayaking, snorkling and visiting the green lagoon. The kayaking and green lagoon were very fun, but unfortunately the snorkling was very bad. The water wasn't clear and there were only two fish sightings in our group. It was more like deer hunting in that sense.

We have now been back in school for one day and it is nice to be back. Only 9 and half more weeks!

I know it is a short blog, but I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

Bye.

Oh I almost forgot to mention. While in Thailand we had four, one hour, massages each. The grand cost total was under $100 for eight hours of massage. Incredible!

Our beach

There were some others (Meg and Dave and Charlotte) from school in Koh Samui Meg had her daughter in law and grandson with her who are Thai also. That was handy at times. Here we are on our new big friends.