I'm sooo bad at this!

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Right. So. I'm really not good with this whole blogging thing. And then I wrote up a whole update and the internet went and it's gone. So this isn't going to be a fact filled bring you up to speed sort of entry. What I'm going to do is points of interest that have happened between now and 48 days ago (apparently that's the last time I was on here.. oops) and then do my best to try to really keep this up to date. We'll see...
so, here goes
I've been to Burma. Twice. That's not really a point of interest, but it was a couple of stamps on my passport, so I felt it deserved a mention.
I've been on the back of an elephant.
I've slept on a longtail boat in the middle of the lake in the middle of a national park waiting for the moon to move
stayed in floating wood cabins
slept in a tree house
gone jungle trekking (for real!)
seen tiger and elephant tracks
explored pitch-black caves
gone swimming in the cave - way cool
seen more gigantic spiders than I would care to remember
fallen in love with gekkos and their cute night sounds... how will I sleep without them??
slept on the beach
drank copious amounts of alcohol out of buckets (yes, this preceded the sleeping on the beach bit)
limboed under a flaming (and I mean FLAMING) log. (yes, this followed the buckets)
kayaked through caves, into lagoons and amongst the mangrove forests
planted more mangrove trees than I can count
hosted crab fights on the palm of my hand
been given a thai nickname 😊
gotten a bamboo tattoo
totally destroyed a camera (I personally think it was having to much fun and it's digital circuits overloaded and blew up)
bought a new camera (thanks dad!!) and I LOVE it.
made some amazing friends and only cried a little bit when they left me to go home 😞
done more karaoke in the last few months than I have ever done in my entire life!!
Moshed to a song all by myself on a dancefloor on the beach...
danced in the ocean
watched the sun come up on the limestone mountains...
climbed 1237 steps to the top of a temple and saw the most amazing view
am contemplating climbing those steps again...
gone snorkeling and had fish nibble me... slightly creepy
gone on a night trek and seen glow-in-the-dark everythings!!!
walked to Malaysia (that one might just get it's own entry later)
been starved by muslims (that goes with the previous line and will be explained in said entry)
have said "If I can't do it tomorrow, I'm going to have to use Porn!" (talking about laundry, Porn does our washing)
have perfected the art of going to the bathroom thai-style in fisherman pants. You have NO idea how tough that is if you haven't ever tried.
eaten meals with questionable ingredients... and loved them all
become addicted to thai pancakes and ice coffee
taken up gardening... for an afternoon...
visited more beautiful islands and beaches than I ever thought possible and seriously considered becoming a beach bum.
SAW GERARD BUTLER ON RAILAY BEACH!! Yeah, for real!
had a piece of coral bite my toe. real bad, like it was almost broken! I'm sure I deserved it though...
drank out of a freshly picked coconut
become an adept at the art of the perfect fruit shake

and I can't think of anything else at the moment, so I'll stop there!
Cheers!

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Comments

[mum]

wow...
it sounds wonderful, beautiful, peaceful...enjoy...luv ya...mum...xoxoxox