Phuket - Ko Phangan

Right well to begin this blog let me inform you of my current state. I am sitting in bed in the dark...in a freakin neck brace. Got lana next to me who at one stage was on a drip, needle in her ass and crying her eyes out. We are both in a total state and while were kinda finding it funny now it was not quite so funny last night. So I woke up yesterday in HUGE pain and I basically couldn’t move. Turns out this is because I slept for too long in a really messed up position. All day I was like hunched over neck to one side walking around like a grandma and lana is literally spewing every 30 minutes. So after one day of complete pain we decide a doctor is needed. This cute little doctor comes and tells Alana she has gastro and me i have a sprained muscle in my neck. So that brings us to the drip and neckbrace. Tonnes of pills surround us and a total doctors bill of $700 AHHH. NOT liking Ko Phangan at this point...AT ALL.

Anyway that aside I should try and remember what we have done the last few days.

Day 8:

Today was a pretty chilled day for me just sat by the pool and read all day. Alana and Sam went to Karon beach for the day which they really liked – a lot less touristy and busy. Then that night we went out for a nice last dinner in Phuket and had an early night. Meant to mention that we went to a ping pong show the night before. Was quite av but Alana hadn’t been before. All we really saw was ping pong balls and quite grossly, live birds. Crazy! Funniest part was meeting a 45 yr old stripper with 3 kids. She let us smack her with this spongy thing that makes a hard sound but actually doesn’t hurt at all. Then she and another stripper started grabbing my boobs...must be normal over here to grab a random chicks boobs or something!!

Day 9:

Today was our mission from Phuket to Ko Samui and on to Ko Phangan. Got up with plenty of time to spare and yet somehow we were again rushing to the airport cutting it SUPER fine thinking we might miss another flight...so embarrassing. But we make it in time thank god. We keep bumping into the same people which is quite cool. This huge aussie family from the hotel that Alana and I keep trying to work out their dynamics, think we got it sussed. And the aussies who showed us some bar tricks were on the same flight as us to Samui. So we flew the 40 mins to Ko Samui and arrived there expecting to get a jet boat over to Phangan. Incorrect. It was like $280 to get a jet boat so gave up the dream of champagne on the back of our private boat and caught the dingy old ferry across. Total mission but we made it over in an hour. Then another tuk tuk to our hotel and were finally here. We decided to head out for dinner straight away. Ended up at this cool place (maybe not so cool if it made lana sick) but had yum food. Since it started POURING down we had no choice but to continue drinking there. So only 4 drinks later and it hit us all of a sudden like a train. I think the heat just makes it way worse. Decided to call it a night we were just far too tired - I think a whole day of travel wore us out completely.

So Day 10:

As described...literally one of the worst days of my life. Just been in so much pain both Alana and I just wishing someone was here to take care of us. Magically about 4pm the nicest aussie woman shows up and is like a mum to us, totally taking care of us calling the doctor getting us food and water and helping us move rooms – a total godsend she was amazing. So yup had the doctor come help us but all we wanted to do was sleep. I think we were both out to it at about 8pm. So now here we are day 11, it is STILL pissing down and lana and I cant think of anything worse than partying for the full moon tomorrow night. I will keep you updated on that one but it aint looking good!!