We woke up early so that we would be able say goodbye to Te Tee. He was taking the 11:30am shuttle to the airport, so we put on our beach attire and headed down to the lobby to rent motorbikes for the day. We had some concerns since we had read some bad reviews about people who had rented motorbikes and provided their passports as collateral. In the reviews, the shop owners had said there was damage to the bike upon its return (even though there wasn't) and demanded money or else they wouldn't return the passports. Te Tee had been able to rent a bike the day before without giving them his passport (just giving them some extra money as an assurance) and we were looking to do the same. Unfortunately, none of the shops would agree to rent to us without of passports so we finally decided to rent from our hotel, figuring our passports were probably safest with them. We got two bikes since Jane didn't feel comfortable driving her own and would ride with me. I hadn't driven a motorcycle in many years so it took a few minutes to get my confidence up, but after a couple minutes down the road, I felt pretty comfortable. I was more worried about keeping Jane safe and not scratching the bike than anything else, but we were going relatively slow and easy so there were no issues. We made it down to Te Tee's hotel but we couldn't find him. Apparently we had gone to his room when he had gone to the lobby and then vice versa but we finally met up with him for our farewell. After he le, we stayed by his pool for a bit and then decided to go check out Kata beach.
Kata was a nice beach although it was defitely more crowded than Karon. We couldn't find three beach chairs all togetehr so when we finally found two, we snagged them and then Alyssa spread her towel out int he shade of someone's umbrella that they weren't using. Since we stayed there for a few hours, we ended up securing three chairs eventually and no one even realized that we hadn't already paid so we got full use of them for free!
After a full day at the beach, we headed back to the hotel to shower and change and then walked down the street from our hotel to where all of the restaurants were located. We had looked up reviews for a place this time because we wanted Thai food for our last night in Thailand but we didn't want to be disappointed by the food like we had the last few times. The place we chose was actually pretty good and we had gotten a wide assortment of dishes so everyone found something they liked. And we got to have our last serving of morning glory (some Chinese vegetable that I didn't even know existed) which is always delicious. We took our time with dinner, heading home a bit early since we knew we would have a travel day the following day which is always exhausting.
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