Elyse's Trip to Thailand

hey everyone, as you all know im goin to phuket thailand, for a rotary exhange. anyway these pictures will be up whenever they happen and tell you all about what im doing down here!! enjoY:)

Monday, September 18, 2006

Day 54 Of phuket!

Sawatdeekha!
everyone today im am super enthused to tell to my story/adventures of today!!! plans were made last night wiht my friend katie(from germany YFU, not Rotary) to go to patong, i would meet her at phuket shoping center, wich is like a market type deal but inside, close to the famous city market/buss station. i met with katie at 9;00. Her host mom, dropped us off at the bus station, and we payed 20baht(both ways 40baht, wish is about $1.25 haha) sooo we got in patong, and katie never had time to eat breafast this morning so, we went to a coffe/subway restraunt and got thai style cappacinos, and she got her pastries for breakfast!. after that we went to the bank so i could get some cashhh flow$$ and then hit the beachhh!!! we got our chairs and walked the beach for a bit, we met some guys, that were selling parasailing. ive always wanted to and now was my chance, i got a good deal(of course, if u ever come to phuket, never pay what thier asking its not a good price BARGAIN!! and not jus phuket, all tourist spots) it was amazinggg, but i felt at one point i was slipping thru the harness, but it was jus the feeling of going higher!! awesome tho!!! katie didnt go just me(thanks for the pictures:)
So after that we ran to the water, and went swimming. the water was amazing nice and warm;). after swimming we talked to a few locals, and got us a sweet deal for a jetski, 300 baht 2people, 4omins!!! thier asking deal 2000baht, 30mins. we are good!!! the jetski was awesome, i drove and i drove fastt, waves were big so alot of fun!! after the jetski, a friend i met earlier Bou& his friend, took me surfing, he gave me freee lessons!! hard at first, but i was surfing in no time, jus need invest in a board!! mom/dad??? surfing was like snowboarding a little harder to stand up tho! After that we went to a restraunt and ate lunch, we took some of back on the beach and jus relaxed. After that some of the locals were playing soccer against a few guys from japan for $$, i asked to play, but i could because it was a bet. After that like 20 of us played it was awesome, my team was wearing shirts and the other team wasnt(all guys except me) all the forangs(foriengers) were watching and cheering, while i was playing, katie was getting surf lessons from my new friend beu;s, friend haha. after that we went to check the bus schedule, to make sure we wouldnt miss our way home! after that we said bye to our new friends and headed on back to phuket town. once we got in phuket our drive wasnt gettin us till 7;00 so we had time to shop in the market and grab some coffee. it was so much fun!!! when i got home iate supper& and watched tv, chelsea from krabi called me, we seriously talked till our batteries went out. she needed help with her rents back home so i talked to them on msn(reminded me of mine in some ways haha) all in all it was a awesome dayyyy:)

1 Comments:

At 9/19/2006, Blogger doug Price said...

Hi Elyse:

WOW! What a day you have had! Seems like your soccer skills are opening a lot of doors for you that would otherwise not be there. That is great.
I was interested in the game you played in today, you said it was for "$$$" but you didn't say anything about how much you won.

I have this wonderful picture in my mind of the soccer game with one fair skinned, red haired young woman playing with all these dark skinned guys and lots of tourists watching and cheering. What a video that would be and I imagine a few videos were made of it.

We hear on the news today about a military coup in your part of the world today. Is or will that have any implications for you or are you far enough away from Bangkok and the action surrounding the coup?

In any case, do try to be well aware of what is going on while the coup is going on.

Happy Birthday too,

Uncle Doug & Aunt Diane

 

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