noodle quest 2006

i forgot to mention that n koh tao i ate a pretty authentic burrito which was unexpected.

yesterday i had my last massage at pimmalai with blah, my massage goddess.  how can a person’s touch feel so soothingly uh-human? this is my question.

after the massage, dan had a football game.  so i got on the sky train and just kind of rode it for a while until i decided to get off at siam center- i think i went there to get food, i’m not exactly sure of my motivation.  i checked out the utterly amazing gourmet market super store which blew my mind.  i bought some pre-made korean beef and japanese dumplings for dan and i made myself the super salad of my dreams.  wow i was in ecstacy creating that salad.  then i bought an avocado to accompany it and needless to say my joy could not reach greater heights.  i dare not mention the intracicies of the toasted pumpkin and black sesame seed dressing that blanketed my meal.  oh no, i wouldn’t dare.

 then i came home and watched a super  old black and white movie on the one english channel on dan’s t.v.  then dan came home and told me about his football game. 
on the way home from chumpon, all of my skin started to peel off and i seriously looked like i had a skin disease. i was in mourning for about 12 hours thinking about how my mom was going to slaughter me first thing in the airport and how much i was not looking forward to that.  i wept about my skin for a day and then decided to exfoliate and now my skin is doing much much better.  that koh tao sun did a NUMBER on me.  i really onyl laid out for a few hours on one day and hung out in the deep shade for the rest.  powerful sun.

today i am just spending hanging around the house and repositioning my clothese and gifts betwee my backpack and my new giant shopping bag that i could literally curl up and fit into.  unluckily, jess reminded me that i have yet another bag at ning’s house which she will bring to the airport… i really hope my bags are under the weight limit. 

every one is asking for some proper closure to the blog but i don’t think this one is it….

tonight danny and i are going to see the pink panther. tomorrow i am going home.  WEIRD! 

 

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…

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