Our last night. (Samui, Thailand)

As all good things must come to an end -- it was our last night in Samui. We were lucky though, the hotel had arranged for a Royal Thai dinner and show just for us. Okay, so the show was for everyone at the hotel, but it was still lovely! Here are a couple of pictures pre-show. It was buy one, get one free happy hour at the beach bar, so were getting silly with our photos. :)

Jason's tequila sunrise!

Here is a quick video of the Thai dancing show. Yes, its incredibly silly as it was in our hotel -- but we really enjoyed watching the show. The women (and man) were incredibly fluid in their dancing, bending in ways that I so cannot!

Big Buddha. (Samui, Thailand)

We rode the scooter to the north end of the island -- our hotel was at the far south end. We were enjoying ourselves, the breeze from the ride and our freedom immensely!

With no destination in mind, we stumbled upon this "Big Buddha". It was so hot though that we couldn't really be bothered to climb to the top of it, so we took pictures from the bottom. We were pleased though to be able to purchase a brick and sign our names to the brick that will be used to the build the temple next to the Big Buddha. Cheesy? Yes, but I'm a sucker for that stuff!

Here are the photos from the Big Buddha. We aren't in any of them because frankly we were disgusting with sweat and road grit at this point, and well, I have some standards in the photos I publish on this blog.

Riding our hog.

We rented a scooter to get about the island. Given that Koh Samui has one of the highest rates of road accidents in all of Thailand, the woman who rented us the scooter insisted we wear helmets. For our safety. Certainly not for our vanity as we looked like total and complete morons. As can be seen in the picture of Jason below. Mind you, I am not making fun of Jason, as you see, my picture isn't here because where Jason just looks a bit silly, I looked ridiculous. (Also, my germ/sweat phobia reared its head regarding the helmet, so as you can see in the video, I am wearing my ultra-cool/protective bandanna -- adding to the ridiculousness of my outfit.

This is me.

In case you were wondering. This is me -- right now. We are in the biz lounge in the hotel enjoying free wireless and saying hello! We just watched the monsoon (evening) rain engulf the city and pass us by. It was an amazing sight. The lightening ignites the sky, whilst the rain continues to fall -- this is rain like nowhere else in the world. Hot and oppressive -- it takes all your energy. Well, all my western energy -- the natives are faring far better than I. In fact, they aren't phased by it.

A couple of other comments -- the humidity is so incredible that I have the world's straightest hair (long before it was a fad), and my hair is curling here. Go figure.

My friend Lauren sent me an email telling me that jungle heat on the beach is nothing like city jungle heat -- she's in Washington DC and wears a suit to work and finds the whole process awful. Well, its still jungle hot in Bangkok and now there are buses, taxis, cars and all manner of sweaty, polluted hot. True, we aren't wearing suits, but it still sucks! :)