This Blog Entry is an email that I sent to my family. I have fallen horribly behind in blogging, so below if a brief summary of my current goings-ons. Hi family! Greetings from Phuket, Thailand where it is currently 1:30am, but 12:30pm for you. Its been raining all week so I'm crossing my fingers for some beach weather this week! I wanted to write you all since my plans have changed a bit from the original plan and to catch you up on what ive been up to. I ori...

Day 19: Explore the Southern portion of Koh Tao. Snorkeled and found an amazing bar and restaurant. I met Trevor at Blue Winds for breakfast at 10am and we talked about where we might want to go. We planned on going to the Northern and Eastern sides of the island via an ATV. After breakfast we walked around the area looking to rent an ATV and asking for recommendations from people we both casually knew. The only places we could find an ATV was a place at the Pe...

Day 16: Extended my stay in Koh Tao for 2 days. Justin went on ahead to finish his trip and I'm now traveling solo. Last night Justin and I decided that he would go on ahead and finish seeing the Southern Thailand on his own since he is in more of a hurry than I am. I checked out of our bungalow and into a newer, but a block off the beach, hotel for 2 nights so that I could relax and take it slow for a couple days. The diving course sucked up all the relaxing t...

Day 14, 15, 16: Staying on Sariee Beach in Koh Tao at Sariee Cottage to get my Open Water Scuba cert. I start my morning off with a run through the city then meet Justin for breakfast before our course starts at 9am. The course is 3.5 days long and involves classroom work, homework, confined water lesson (in the pool) and 4 open water dives. The first time strapping on all my scuba gear is surprising. I'm a pretty strong gal but this crap is heavy! I'm wonder...

Day 11, 12, 13: I'm falling far behind in blogging and recalling events & days is difficult!! On Saturday we took a flight from Chiang rai and immediately took the ferry Koh Phangan. Koh Samui is the second largest island, second to Phuket, and is highly westernized with a WHotel, Ritz, Nikki Beach, etc. So, we didn't want to stay on the island and wanted to immediately get more remote. Koh Phangan has become popular from a giant bash called the Full Moon p...