Monday in Kamala Beach!

Monday - 7 July 08

Today has been a quiet and relaxing day for us today, well most of it anyway. We are getting a bit frustrated with this bloody internet and the ISP. We bought a 7 day internet card and it takes us soooooo long to connect and have to jump all sorts of hoops to get the thing working and it is pissing us off.

9.30am this morning was the Tsunami drill for Phuket and surrounding areas, so Rick and I thought we would participate and ride the bike up to the Tsunami evacuation meeting point halfway up the mountain at the lookout, it saved having to walk the evacuation route along the beach and up the hill. Well it was interesting because we were the only ones there and no one seemed interested in participating in the drill and just went on with their normal daily routine, people were swimming at the beach, vehicles were driving up and down the mountain, shops were operating and no one really gave a toss. It surprised me because the evidence is still there of the Tsunami three and a half years ago and its devastation, there is still debris everywhere and buildings that were destroyed and a lot of rebuilding going on but slowly so I would have thought that the people here would have taken it seriously, obviously not.

We gave up hanging around after half an hour so hopped on the bike and went for a ride to Surin beach which is about 10 kms from here. We rode around the village and side streets and checked the place out. There are a lot of new resorts being built there too and a lot of housing developments as well. Its good to get out and about and see how the other half lives and be thankful for what we have.

We then headed back to Kamala Beach and rode around to find an internet cafe so we could book our flights to Bangkok for Saturday and our hotel for the night close to the airport, I could book it on the internet on our laptop but need a computer with a printer to printer the flight and hotel vouchers. We found one just up the road and I started the booking and found we had to put our passport numbers on the booking and they were locked in the safe in our room, besides that we had cats running all over the computer and keyboards and I got pissed off, had a hissy and left there. We came back to the hotel collected our passports and went for a ride and found another internet cafe in a travel agent so finally booked our Air Asia flights and our hotel and printed up the vouchers. Our domestic flight to Bangkok only cost us $58 each and our hotel, the Novotel at Bangkok airport cost top dollar but as we are flying out to Perth at 7.50am ( if the plane leaves on time that is)so we decided we had to be within spitting distance to the airport as we will need to be there 2 hours before the flight leaves so the closer, the better.

By the time we finished that it was lunchtime and we were hot and hungry so we had lunch in the restaurant here at the resort its a little more expensive that the restaurants in the town but the food is better. Having done that it was time to veg and headed to our room to catch up on internet stuff and relax. The time is just flying now we are getting to the end of our trip and so before we knew it dinner time had come around so off we walked to the main drag of Kamala and found a little restaurant come bar and it must be the place for foreigners to hang out because it was quite busy with foreign men and their Thai wives. We had a nice dinner, I had Duck (which I love) with honey and fried rice and Rick had Duck a'la Orange and steamed rice, reasonably priced and filling. We then walked back to the resort, like two fat porkers and called it a night.

So our day was interesting but still relaxing. So until tomorrows blog. La Kon!