noodle quest 2006

this entry is for my cousin joelle who is still routinely checking the noodlequest for updates… thanks jo.  still “adjusting” (will i ever stop?) to life back here in the USA.  i just don’t see how things could become less weird.  the more time goes by the less everything seems normal- or the more normal things get the weirder they seem… one of the two, anyway.  elyse’s shower in philly pics are up as are the pics from me dan’s trip to koh tao.  soon i will post more pics from elyse’s shower in nyc.  soon to come, pics from elyse’s shower in other major cities in the US.  next week, spokane.  stay tuned.  (link to the right of screen as always).

i just realized i have kept the pics from koh tao on my camera i think in an effort to make it seem like it just happened.  i guess it wasn’t so long ago.

dan sent me some beautiful hanging chimes for my birthday which i love.  he drew little pictures of us on two peices of the wood and it is super nice and makes a really lovely spring whistle in my room.

i started work at a yoga studio two weeks ago and it is going okay. free yoga classes in exchange for a little bit of money and two shifts a week.  tomorrow i am going to start volunteering at the open center which i am really pcyhed about.

 that’s all jo! (and others… maybe). 

wow, koh tao was so nice.  we spent the first two days at a beach called aou leuk which was small small and had only two little bungalow places with about 5 bungalows each- 5 on the beach and 5 on the rocks overlooking the beach.  we ate all our meals at the rocky restaurant where our table with pillows on teh floor was right over the water.  wow.  so so nice.  the third day we went to an even smaller beach called lam thien.  the road there was unbelievable.  a flock of cattle could not be herded up this road- it was like all rocks and ditches and i was holding on tight in the back of the pick up.  lam thien was really nice.  we stayed in a bugalow iwth hammocks hiiiiiiiiigh up in the rocks above the water.  lam thien is also known as shark’s bay because of all the (supposedly non-vicious) baby sharks that swim aroud there.  dan did a lot of snorkeling but i stayed pretty close to the shore as there were some foot long leeches in the water that  did not feel so good about.  also the zillions of fish liked to nip at me.  at night i saw two big flippy feet coming out of a hole in the ceiling.  it was a giant gecko.  wow.  in aou leuk the gecko in our room was 2 feet long.  it was like a small small dinasour pet for us.  the last day we went to had sai ree which is one of the bigger beaches.  we ate some good italian food and sat at a bar on the beach.  today we are leaving to go back to bangkok.  we will catch a ferry in about 2 hours that takes us to chumpon, about 2 hours away.  then we will catch a bus to bangkok which takes about 7 hours. 

koh tao was so fun and i am so glad that we came here.  i talked to jess and she absolutely loved her retreat.  she said it was totally amazing and powerful and transformative and i have not yet gotten all the details but we have a 24 hour trip home to catch up.  we are going to be in tokyo for 6 hours… where should we go? 

coming home on the morning of the 29th into jfk.  maybe a few more posts before that…