Phuket

We just moved to a new hotel - Sawasdee Village - and it is truly beautiful to say the least. Our last hotel had no official internet other than wifi and was a fair way out, but away from the crowds in Patong.

We saw the Phuket Fantasea show last night which was impressive. Girls got to feed a huge lot of koi fish. We went to the fun park there and all we did was look around at the very fancy shops - like fantasy style. We saw an old car and shop assistants were all dressed up fantasy style.

We did Simba Sea tour yesterday and went to all sorts of islands. One stop was at the floating restaurants and houses near the islands. We saw the end of the Amazing Race (TV show) floating soccer field that was the pit stop for Phuket stop.

The day before we did a slower boat tour and did kayak rides into very very tight caves into hongs which are like small water areas inside the islands. It was so tight into the bat cave that grandpa stubbed his toe - they had Lotus and Charlotte on same kayak and Lotus's life jacket balloned up and kept hitting the rock as the paddler man tried to get them through. You have to lay flat and I can tell you it is pretty clostrophobic.

We did another kayak trip yesterday but it was nothing like the day before as in a squeeze but still we had to lay down a few times. Lotus/grandpa missed yesterdays kayak trip because Lotus was asleep on the speed boat. We got well fed on both trips.

This hotel is simply GORGEOUS - very very fancy - the weather is rain rain rain here so different from hot Bangkok.. lucky we had no rain on our boat trips prior 2 days. Tomorrow we are doing trip up the rivers, before overnight bus back to Bangkok for some shopping. So this will be our last bed for a few days. Will be ready to come home... the pool here is small but very very tropical and bar seats in pool... Charlotte will be in her element - every place she just wants the pool and nothing else.