boring boring day. slept in (finally!!!) which actually means slept until 9am, were awakened by several roosters staying at our guesthouse. at one point in the early morning, linda actually got up and went outside to chase the roosters away. miriam and rachelle were in a different bungalo close to the bathroom and were awakened by some thai women loudly cleaning the bathroom. miriam got up and walked out onto her porch to yell "shhhhh!! sleeping!!!" and then went back to sleep. the women did not react.
ate breakfast slowly, sat around, did nothing, did email. sloooooooooow day.
the reason that today was so damn slow was because the only thing we had to do was get a two hour bus ride back to bangkok to catch our night train down south. finally in the afternoon we got to the bus station. only when it was too late did we realize that we didn't have food for the bus ride. since it was only two hours, we knew that we could do it. but it really was a serious issue for several minutes. i think if you saw how much we eat every day you would understand.
get to bangkok, take a public bus to the train station. ride next to a 7 bus parade of fatigue-clad thai teenagers who stare and smile and wave at us THE ENTIRE TIME. get to train station, have one hour to pick up dinner and snacks and breakfast for the twelve hour train ride. this is what we bought: 2 liters of water for each person. one box of sugar/salt crackers. one box of cookies. three coconut filled pastry buns. four orders of pad thai.
the worst shock of our trip came when we discovered, ten minutes into the train, that the pad thai had shrimp on it. horror of horrors. none of us eat shrimp. i bought rice on the train and we managed to make it to surat thani in the morning. funnier still, is that we still had a three hour boat ride to the island, a taxi ride, and another 20 minute boat to our guesthouse. it was over 24 hours since we had eaten a full meal.
quote of the day: "I think i can make it. I mean, i know i can make it." (adina, about having a two hour bus to bangkok without food.)
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