Krabi

Hello family! We are leaving for Chiang Mai at 4 AM tomorrow morning so I better recap Krabi before we leave for our next vacation! I also realize that all my posts lack photos. Please just look at the photos on Facebook and when I get them all together on my computer, I will do a big post with pictures! Now onto Krabi. We flew into Bangkok from Cambodia on Tuesday, October 28. We met up with Michele's mom, Anita, at the airport. She is such a nice and fun lady. We caught our flight to Krabi and took a bus to our hostel. We then changed into our swimsuits and took a tuk tuk to Ao Nang to hang out on the beach. It was beautiful and looked like it came straight out of a postcard. There was also a colony of monkeys wandering around the beach. They were very used to humans and even climbed onto a man's shoulders and didn't even flinch when people took pictures with them. The next morning we took a 2 hour ferry ride to Phi Phi Island. Phi Phi Island was one of the craziest places I have ever been to. The entire island was filled entirely with American and European tourists. The only Thai people on the island were people who worked there. It was almost all young people too. The entire island was filled with bars and clubs. People there just party all night long. It is practically desereted during the morning. We met several Scandinavian young people who live on the island. They work in the bars and just party their lives away. We met a nice Danish guy named Anders who worked in one of the bars. He said we were probably the only adults on Phi Phi Island who didn't drink. Despite the party atmosphere, Phi Phi Island was the most beautiful place I have ever visited. We spent Wednesday just hanging out at the beach. On Thursday, we took a longboat tour of the islands around Phi Phi. We also went snorkeling. Yes, even I went snorkeling! I still don't know how to swim though. I just wore a life jacket and stayed by the boat. Our boat driver gave us bread to attract the fish. Seeing all the pretty fish underwater was breathtaking and a once in a lifetime experience. On Friday, we hung out at the beach some more and did some more shopping. That afternoon we took the ferry back to Krabi. On Saturday we took another longboat tour around the Seven Islands. The water was so shallow you could walk from one island to the next. There was also a giant rock that you could go rock climbing on. When you get tired of rock climbing, you just jump off the rock into the ccean. I was too chicken to climb the rock, however. We had a barbecue that night and went snorkeling again to see the glowing plankton in the water at night. On Sunday, we flew back to Bangkok. We took the Skytrain into the city and did some more shopping at one of the megamalls. We took the night bus to make it back to Phichit in time to teach the next morning.