Blogging from Abroad

Ah there is so much I have wanted to tell you! of course now that I have the time, I'm on a keyboard that pretty much blows... so excuse the typos (also all the general instructions/login stuff on websites is in Thai characters!)

I'll give you a brief rundown of the highlights (or lowlights, depending) thus far:

-food. food. food. Anna and I spent 4 days in Bangkok eating nonstop. Anna's goal was to eat at least 3 more pad thais in the last 24 hours she was here (mind you, we had already eaten at least 15 of them, street food is amazing and not as sketchy as I originally thought, thankfully- since we would be giving up a lot if we didn't try it all!) My personal goal was to eat as many mangos/mango products as possible. I believe I accomplished it, as I am now a little disgusted by my personal favorite dish- mangoes with sticky rice and coconut milk- which is amazing and I'm sure I'll miss as soon as I get back to the US.

-shiny happy temples, holding haaaaands! lots and lots of Wats, or buddhist temples, all decked out in the shiniest materials thinkable, and...

-many many monks! two favorite monk sightings: the monklings crossing the street, a la Abbey Road style (tons of little monk boys, all in little monk garb, so cute!) and the monk who befriended me while I was waiting for Anna (all this Wat-seeing is taking its toll on my feet). He was super cute, and I have a photo with him,though he's not allowed to touch anyone (or maybe just girls, I have no idea).

-the beach... ahhh.... Koh Samet island, which was beautiful, and the little hut I stayed in, which was right on the beach, could see it! could hear it at night! and was very sweet if a little, shall we say, rustic- I found a millipede, a salamander, and a rather large toad all wanting to share my bed.

-motorbikes = COOL until you wipe out and break the damn thing... which I thought I had done, until a nice Thai with very good english came by and after about 3 or 4 other Thais stopped, finally figured out how to get the son of a bitch running again. thank god, because I sure as hell don't have enough $ to pay for a motorbike, and I'm guessing the next step would be indentured servitude. or jail. ach- I kind of freaked the hell out. but all's well that ends well... I probably should have been driving slower, since no one wears a helmet and the road had enormous potholes that had sent me flying more than once already...

-more island craziness would be having a beer bottle thrown at me by a crazy Thai girl, who apparently had some thing going on with the Brit I was dancing with (later I found out the whole story, though I'm wary as to if he even told the truth, as said story changed about 4 times.) full disclosure? ok, PROMISE... but remind me, as this one will take more than the 16 minutes I have left on the computer! I swear I'll fill you in when I get home to my own computer and english keyboard :)

I'm off tonight on a 1 am flight to the Philippines to eventually (after 2 flights, a bus ride, and a trike ride) see Anna's hut house- yay! I know it will be a little primitive but I hope I've been prepped by the creepy crawlies I found on the island... so I'm sure I'll be ok. so far the toilet situation here has been much better than I thought, more flush toilets, and even when you have to pour water down them to flush, at least you can sit! which is quite exciting... even the french have worse toilets than the Thais!

love you much and miss you unimaginably... but at least I'm here doing amazing things and not at home wondering when you'll walk in the door....

I'll talk to you soon! give everyone my love!
xoxoxoxoBon