Te Tee, Jane and I slept in until about 8:30am. I miraculously had no hangover which I attributed to drinking lots of water and getting 8 hours of sleep. We lounged around a bit and then packed up and headed down to breakfast.
Taya and Alyssa had checked out earlier that morning because they had hired a private boat to check out a different island, so it was just the three of us for the day. We decided to go to the local beach since it was so close and really beautiful. We stayed on the beach for three hours tanning, snorkeling in the crystal clear water and drinking delicious fruit smoothies.
Unfortunately the last ferry back to Phuket left at 2:30pm, so we needed to leave the beach midday in order to get some lunch, get back to the hostel to get our stuff and get down to the dock. Jane and I grabbed some sandwiches at a French bakery which were surprisingly good and hustled back up the hill to collect our things.
We were supposed to have an attendant take our stuff down to the dock at 1:30pm but when 1:45pm rolled around and he still wasn't there, we became a little bit nervous. We decided we would walk to the bottom of the hill and meet the attendant there because he was supposed to be coming up with some people. We met him just as he was loading the people arriving into the truck, so he threw all of our bags in the push cart and sensing our urgency, began running down the mountain. We could not keep up with him on foot by walking, so we had to run too which was actually pretty hilarious. We made it to the dock right on time and met up with Alyssa and Taya. The boat had not yet arrived, so we waited in line for about 15 minutes until it pulled up. Since there were already boats at the dock, our boat pulled up along side another boat and we had to walk across two other boats to get to ours which was kinda weird. We weren't all able to get seats in the shade, but since Te Tee did have one in the shade, I sat at his feet so that I didn't melt out in the sun.
There was one sad part to our ferry ride. They had loaded a local guy on a stretcher onto the boat connected to an IV and with a nurse, but sadly on the ride back to the mainland he died on the boat. I didn't see it first hand, but Alyssa had gone down to the lower deck to use the bathroom and saw the whole thing. It was awful because he was really young and I just kept thinking how that would never have happened in the US.
When we got onshore, we had a car waiting to transfer us to our hotels in Phuket. Te Tee had opted to stay at a nicer hotel so we dropped him off first and then
the rest of us headed to our guesthouse "Karon Living Room".
We had gotten two rooms for the first night and since Taya would be flying back home the next night, we would move into one room for the three of us the next day. We got settled in and waited for Te Tee to meet us at our place. He rented a scooter so that it would be easier for him to get around and so he zoomed over in no time. We walked down the street to a restaurant that lured us in with a free salad bar. Sadly the food was not good. Te Tee said that Thai food in the South is nowhere near as good as the North and I had to agree.
After dinner, we headed out for Taya's last night with us. We were determined to see one of the infamous ping pong show and Te Tee was excited to see our reaction to it. We went to "Patong Beach" which has a street full of bars and clubs, most of which are advertising their ping pong show. We checked a few overpriced venues before settling on a bargain one. The guy said the women are not as attractive but we didn't care since we weren't really there to check out attractive women. We sat at stools right at the stage and had a front row view to the entire show (which was way too close for Jane, Alyssa and Taya so after a few acts they moved further back). The show was absolutely crazy. If you are not familiar with what a ping pong show is, it was made famous by women shooting ping pong balls out of their vaginas. Now, ping pong balls is the very least of what they do. They were pulling out strings of razor blades, live birds, mice and fish, smoking cigarettes and using a blow gun to shoot a balloon out of your hand... all with their vagina. Yes, it sounds sick and it is. Why did we go to see this? Because you have to, you're in Thailand! I do feel sorry for the women who make a living doing this stuff though, it's just sad. But I have to say, I was in awe by some of the acts, they almost have talent.
After the ping pong show, the group seemed a little scarred from the experience so we headed back to the hotel to get some sleep.
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