Well we are in Phuket Thailand and we are officially tourists!!! You SO feel like a tourist here, almost immediately after leaving the airport! Not 20 minutes in we were taken to a government tour office where we were suckered into two tours (well they were places to go on our "to do" list here, so....), then we passed through Patong Beach which feels like an explosion of college Spring Breakers.
One of the tour operators was very curious as to how we even managed to get a place to stay here as all the hotels are full here for Chinese New Year. So you can imagine how busy it is. Matt was brilliant in his planning though and secured our stay at a much quieter beach around 5-7 minutes drive from the main one. Thank God - as even this beach is quite busy.
We have also splurged a little and are staying at a nice resort. There is a beautiful roof top pool, spa, restaurant and many more vacationers. It is quite a change of speed for us, and I almost feel like I am breaking some sort of "travelers code" but it is a rather nice luxury, so we are going to really soak it up and enjoy.
Today we just relaxed on the beach and got our bearings. Matt also got a much needed hair cut and I finally had a real pedicure - yay! We then just chilled on the beach.
Tomorrow we are off on our first tour to Ko Phi Phi Island, and a couple of surrounding islands where the movie "The Beach" was filmed. We are going to do some snorkeling, and site seeing, and well perhaps I will run into Leonardo DiCaprio who could perhaps be visiting his old haunting grounds!
Our next tour is two days later where we go to another grouping of islands, with one of them being a back drop for yet another James Bond movie. I must confess between Leo and Daniel Craig, I am REALLY rooting for Daniel to be making a return viz.
Other than that not much news to report! We will fill you in if any scandal should arise.
Missing you all, more than you could possibly know,
xxoo
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There's nothing wrong with a great spa experience! It all sounds lovely. I think I am with you Vee in rooting for Daniel Craig to turn up. Fingers crossed for you on that one. It is raining here today and the forecast for this week is for temps in the 50's and even 40's with little sunshine. We did have a nice sunny (if coolish -50's) day yesterday and we made the most of it and played golf. Very nice and I did not lose any balls this week. So there is definite improvement in that department and even in the actual golfing department too! Dad's game improved greatly also and Lynda played well for the first 5 holes! Last night we all went downstairs to play pinochle. We have a tee time for Wednesday too at Signal Hill but it is supposed to be a high of 52 - sunny though!
ReplyDeleteThe superbowl party was fine with lots of great eats. We made a mole chili (a Rachael Ray recipe)with the secret ingredients of cinnamon and unsweetened cocoa powder. Delicious! Even better was the fact that there were left overs for Monday night's supper.
Today Lynda is going to line dancing in the building and I am off to my drawing class. Maybe we will go to the movies today and escape the showers.
Enjoy your moments of luxury. It was so lovely to see you on SKYPE on Sunday and to see your pictures yesterday morning. Loved the one of the many Vees!
Heaps of love to you both. We all miss you lots too.
A/Mom