9.1.09 Last day in Thailand

We checked out of Amari, and took a flight back to Bangkok. Our hostel had gotten great ratings, but it was pretty gross.

We went out around our hostel and hung out at a bar nearby. We stayed there the entire night and struck up conversation with a bar girl and played drinking games with her (no, we did not pay the extra bar girl charge).

8.31.09 Day at Amari Resort

We woke up really late due to our late night out and intense Jenga sessions. We checked into Amari resort, which was in Patong, and immediately wished we had more nights there.

Our room had a balcony with an ocean view and the pools were also overlooking the ocean.

For lunch Jenn ordered a naan wrap with curried chicken which turned out to be one of the most delicious things she'd eaten on the entire trip. After lunch Kyle ordered a dessert that was absolutely beautiful. It came in a hollowed out coconut shell and had coconut and taro ice cream. Jenn usually does not like taro or ice cream, but this was pretty good. After that we laid out by the pool until it started to get dark.

We stopped by the lobby on our way out later that evening and listened to some cheesy live music. We had dinner in Patong and did some shopping. At the end of the night we shared a motorcycle taxi ride back to Amari, which was definitely an interesting experience.

8.30.09 laying out

We went to a national park today. It started raining as we were making our way up a trail to see a waterfall. There was also a gibbon rehabilitation center in the national park, which rehabilitates abaondoned or abused gibbons. They are very cute, but apparently they grow sharp teeth and become aggressive when they get a little older, and people who once had them as pets abandon them.

The rain let up and we finally got a nice day on the beach.

After many excursions and getting lost, we decided to start keeping things simple. We went to the beach, drank some Singhas, and laid out.

Later at night, we ate at an Indian restaurant and went to the bar across the street from it. It was a very interesting and entertaining bar run by a middle aged woman named "Sexy Sue" and her children (about our age). Sexy Sue was wasted and turned in early. We spent the next hour or so playing random games with the bartenders and other barhoppers, including a Thai variation of Jenga.