Lamai Beach and the Canadians!

The motorcycle repair shop on the side of the road.

Amazing sunset at Hin Ta Hin Yai

Having a beer at the funky reggae bar 'The Rock' on the beach

The 'male' rock

Peggy and Ron lighting our Canadian lantern! People do this all up and down the beaches and watch them float off into the night.

Jenga pros! Here in the bars they always have games to play.

Walked down the beach to an area we had heard of called Hin Ta Hin Yai (means Grandpa and Grandma) that had rocks that resembled the male and female organs. Only in Thailand! Found the male one easily and everyone was still trying to figure out the female, haha. Had to have a beer at the local reggae bar appropriately called 'The Rock' and listened to Bob Marley tunes.

Met some more Canadians, even born and raised in Calgary! They just sold their house and are traveling for a year as well so we had lots to talk about it, was great! Had a fun night of lantern flying, eating, drinking, pool playing and Jenga!! I am getting quite good at playing pool with a slanted table, chipped cue ball, warped cues and bugs running in front of your balls! Too funny, I won't know how to play on a normal table when I come home, not that I could before any how but I am learning to break at least!

Next day we daringly rented a scooter to tour the south part of the island. A little hairy of an experience, I can say I don't need to do that again for a while. Besides I think Brian needs to recoup from me screaming in his ear a few times! We did get to see some beautiful beaches and went to the worst tourist attraction ever, the Butterfly Gardens (not my choice but I am learning it's not all about me when you have a traveling companion.....lol). Well we could have seen more butterflies on a walk thru a park, good thing for the exhibition of the dead ones which was sad but at least we can say we saw some! More bad luck (I am going to start calling Brian Schleperock), we got a flat tire! So off we starting walking in the heat and it was so funny cause finally this little Thai girl stops and asks us if we need some help! The Thai guys never would stop that would require some effort and maybe work! Off she went to find a place for us and I saw she was wearing a Fire and Rescue shirt, we were her big emergency for the day! She did find us a motorcycle repair place not too far away, what a welcome sight! Only 30 baht to fix it too which is equilvalent to about a dollar.