Vestiges of larger ancestral arms? Oh, man - can you imagine how much scarier a t-rex would be if it had normal sized arms that it could use to reach out and grab you?
We left Chaweng and drove about 40 minutes to Lamai Beach to see Hin Ta and Hin Yai (Grandpa & Grandma). They are two natural rock formations that are supposed to look like male and female genitalia, respectively!
After we ate, we wanted to go out and do something, but like I mentioned early, Phuket is kind of a sleepy town. Walking around, we ran into this place and decided to see if there was anything going on inside.
...and then set out to find some famous Thai restaurant. After more than an hour of wandering around (and getting our feet attacked by fire ants when we stepped off the road into the grass on some side street while I tried to figure out where we were on the map), we found out that the restaurant had since closed down! So we decided to just wander around until we found somewhere else good to eat. We didn't end up at HongKong Chinese Restaurant....
Phuket was a little sleepy and the weather was so crummy that we decided we were going to move on the next day. After we'd finished eating, we hit an internet cafe to see if we could book a flight later that afternoon to Koh Samui, but all the flights out of Phuket were booked for the next several days! We went to the tourism authority to see if they could help us book a bus and ferry to get to Samui but the lady there didn't speak any English and our best efforts at pantomime resulted in her handing us a bus schedule to somewhere else. Which, totally defeated, we pretended was exactly what we'd been asking her for. Hahaha.
Around 4pm, we were out walking around and we decided to rent a moped and do some exploring! (Moped rental was 250 Baht, around $5 USD, per day!). Thailand is really inexpensive, but Phuket was shaping up to be one of the most inexpensive places in Thailand I've ever been to!
...take a taxi all the way across town and out to a suburb of Bangkok to visit the international school where Jeremy teaches English! We arrived at the school a little after 4pm...
OMG, when you see a sign like this on the entrance to a buffet restaurant, you know the place is like fatty-heaven. (And by fatties I mean actual gluttons, not capital F Fatty as in "The" Fatty. Although, now that I think about it, he'd probably really love this place too).
I love how they put these posters on the side of the ATM all the way near the back so that you'd never see it if you were actually using the machine to withdrawal money. You stay classy, Harrahs!
