Day 6 Phi-Phi island - Phuket

Early morning up and I walked to the view point. As i am trekking up the hill past hostels and locals working I take a few moments to take in the view. As i ascend the mountain the views become more and more beautiful. I can see both bays on either side of the island. A giant crescent cut into the island on my left and right. I notice a shop set up for the viewpoint. Along with some benches and flowers. A small boy no older than 1 year is standing at the edge of the open front shop on the side of the mountain grinning and waving at me. Soooo cute! I walk up and take a couple pictures. A young woman comes out and feeds the boy some breakfast. A couple cats curl up next to him and wait patiently for their helping. I watch them and then take a few more glances at the view before I head back down.

I am in the mood for more adventuring so I turn at the fork in the road away from the main beach area. There are more hostels and hotels that are usually filled during peak season. Birds in cages hang randomly. Boys pull carts with water and other supplies. Life seems simple and relaxed.

I go back to the room and pack up. Kaleena and I need to catch a ferry at 2pm over to Phuket. We check out and leave our bags at the front desk. The sun is shinning and I am sad to already be leaving Phi Phi island. We venture around and end up at another beach and opt to get some tropical cocktails to kill some time and get out of the heat. One Phi-Phi sunrise later we ask our waiter, Mow, the time. He informs us that it is 1:00. The island is small so we opt for another drink. I am feeling anxious and inquire the time again from a different waiter...he says 2! We should have known we had to be somewhere..we are having too much fun relaxing. Definately need to invest in a travel watch with an alarm...too bad i dont' really like wrist watches...i guess that's why I'm always running places...but it would have been very helpful on this trip.

We jump up pay our bill and RUN to our hotel....they tell us our bags are at the ferry. So we RUN to the port. I take the back way that i discovered earlier in hopes that we'll be able to run faster without all the people, shops and turns the other way. As we are running up to the ferry along the dock, the man from the hotel is waving us toward the boat saying "why?" "why?" we jump on the boat and they unlatch it from the dock. They were waiting for us....We find a spot in back and brave the journey to Phuket.

Phuket is not as relaxed as Phi-Phi and it is a bit of a shock. Similar to Bangkok. We get our room, which is the poorest of all of our rooms besides the first one in Bangkok...but we know we've been spoiled so far. Our stomachs start to grumble indicating a desperate need for food. I want to splurge on a nice seafood meal so we stop at the first place called Mr. Goods. I order a seafood basket and K got an entire fish. The food was delicious.... i felt happily guilty totally devouring everything...We also got some fun tropical in coconut drinks. This was our most expensive meal at ~$23 each

Phuket is supposed to be a good place to 'go out' so since we haven't done that since Bangkok we are determined. We set a wake up call with the front desk for 11pm and take a nap. We turn on the TV and the Wondergirls music video comes up. Ahhhh! Korean pop music is everywhere! Some other Thai and Japanese music videos play as well.

All dressed up we head out and walk down the street. We both feel a little too cute looking but we venture on. I see a side street and we go down it. I think it is called Patong..... It is completely lined with bars after bar after bar, there are bars inside of bars. Everything is dark and dirty. Thai girls dance on poles and taxi driver try and get us to go to a ping pong show. A man shoves a picture in my face after asking me if i want to go to the show I don't' look down but I'm pretty sure a cigarette was being smoked....you fill in the rest. Western guys walk down with a Thai girl on one arm and another Thai girl or Lady boy on the other. We spot a bar with a balcony view and head up there to observe.

After the crowd clears a bit down below we walk back down. We meet these random blokes from somewhere and then other woman tells us about a disco. We love dancing so when we find out where it is we head over there.

Disco....