legs wide open

well, we spent mouch of the day yesterday with our legs wide open! you are probably not surprised since we are on our honeymoon, but that is not what i meant, dirty minds!

we went for an elephant ride! we went up into the jungle, then walked down a river. then we chenged clothes and went swiiming with the elephant, and we had to hold on tight! bareback elepahnt riding is strenuous! but it was very fun and our elephant and our guide were both very gracious. it was really nice when we were up in the jungle and the guide from the lephant behind us sang us a song in thai. lovely!

then we hopped on the scooter and drove around the island, up and down some very steep hills, with amazing views of the ocean and trees. we went to the southern tip of the island to a small fishing village called ban bangbao. the have a long walkway made of concrete and all these3 stores and restaraunts are on stilts above the water. very cool. we had a yummy lunch of shrimp salad and fries with a tiger beer and we made reservations for a speedboat to our next destination.

which is an island to the souht west of us, very small, called koh mak. so tomorrow morning we will be picked up in our hotel lobby by taxi which will take us to the pier at bangbao. then we will have a 40 minute speedboat ride to koh mak, and a hotel called the monkey shack! we are hoping it is aptly named. (we did see some monkeys yesterday, which was very exciting!) apparently, since it is off-season here, there might only be "two" other people on koh mak. i think there will be a few more than that, but since our hotel has been overrun by a tour group of very loud and busy thais, we are ready for some serious peace and quiet.

let's see, for lunch today i had some fried pork with onions and garlic, it was ok, but nothing i'll go out of my way to find again. jamie had a hamburger and fries. last night i had some seafood curry, panang curry which i think means peanuts and cocnut milk mix. i'm not a huge fan of the peanut curry to be honest, it's a bit heavy. jamie had a wide noodle chicken dish, and he really liked the noodles that way. the other night, i had "square enclosure" noodle with pork soup. any guesses? dumpling soup! i loved that description! the place we've been eating is right on the beach. no floor, just right on the sand. there are several children that belong to the family that owns the place, and they put on a baton twirling fire show every night. i'd say it is very intersting and amazing to watch a 3 yr old twirl a fire stick! you may think i am exaggerating, but i am not. he does it with his brothers/cousins, the eldest is probably around 14-15. fun to watch! they have a different amount of responsibilty than children that age in the US.

there was an awesome lightening and thundestorm last night which woke us up. really cool, the rain was pounding down all night. still raining today so no lying the sun but we have been reading and enjoying the sound of the rain.

not sure what is going to happen with the internet in koh mak. hopefully, we'll be in touch soon. oh, and forgive me for the multiple emails, the computers here are a bit off.

love to all, keep us posted of anything important and newsworthy!
love jo and jamie