We're in Ko Samui...

Hellloooooooo.

So we've been in Ko Samui since tuesday morning, made a rash decision to get out of Bangkok, and I think we're both pretty glad that we did it.
Had a very big adventure actually getting to this island, which started off on a night bus from Bangkok, to (supposedly) Surat Thani which is where you get a ferry across to the Island.
Neither of us had slept much in Bangkok due to screaming animals all night (yes Linda they scream in Thai) so we both conked out of the bus like we didn't really have a choice.
We were supposed to get to Surat Thani at about 7am, but we were quickly awoken at 4am and ushered off the bus with a couple from Holland and a guy from California. Unfortunately as we were all half asleep none of us clocked that the only people chucked off the bus were tourists...
So we were loaded onto a tuktuk by a guy who told us he'd take us to the ferry. Wrong again!
He took us to a travel agency (he must have been making comission) and the woman there tried to charge us an obscene amount of money for a bus ticket to the ferry.
I think if we hadn't been with the other travellers we would have just paid the money out of pure fear of being stranded in some random town who knows where in Thailand at 4.30am! But the rest of them refused and said the price was too much, so we wondered off down the road and luckily found someone to take us, for a fraction of the price we'd been charged at the travel agency.
After a very long and bumpy ride on the back of this tuktuk, we got to the ferry at about 6.30, and luckily just made it.
I think we've both concluded that however terrifying that experience was, we lived to tell the tale and thats what this who travelling thing is all about!
So since then we've checked in to a nice place just out of the hustle and bustle. We weren't quite expecting Ko Samui to be as dirty and packed with fat old men in spedos to be honest, it's quite embarassing to be European in a place like this!
New Years Eve was spent mostly in the rain, but we still stayed on the beach.
Was amazing to meet people from all over the world, and quite fittingly we first met a couple from NZ, who we sat with through the countdown etc and had a few mojito/whisky buckets (distgusting!) and then partied on down to the bars, who all had djs and various slushy concoctions...
We eventually made it back to the hotel at about 7.30am, and had to embarassingly walk past all the families who were having breakfast (ridiculously early for anyone on new years day we think) absolutely drenched from the downpour that decided to catch us just as we were running for a cab.
New Years day was spent watching ALOT of 90210, and drinking tomato juice (new obsession) we are now officially addicted, but it was raning anyway so don't feel too guilty.
Today is the first day its not raining so I think I really need to get off this computer and down to the beach!
Cocktails are in order, long day ahead.

Hope everyones well, so awesome to speak to people on New Years Eve, hope you all had an amazing time!
Lots of love,

Hayley Xxxxx

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