hello eeryone. firstly can i just give a shout out to bron and katie for organising a little package of letters and goodies from our great southern homeland along with nick. it was good to hear from some of you, thanks for shring a snapshot of your life with us. Bec and jon, that photo of your little baby is so cute, couldn't quite make out if it was human, but im sure Gods working on it!! and we really enjoyed the vegemite in a tube.
its new years eve, we are in sweaty phuket im feeling sick (sore throat and bit hot) and sorry for myslef as usual. poor ames. we have just had lunch, i had chicken soup and 7up. brillant sick person food. we caught up with nick and his friends the last two days. kinda crazy actually, the first night we were in phuket,after koh tao, we had no where to stay. we kinda vaguly remembered nick saying he was staying at teh family inn, or family guesthouse, or the guesthouse inn, so we took a wild guess and went ot the first one. asked for spare room, but there was no room in the inn. we asked if a really tall australian guy was staying, giving nicks name. no nicholas, he said. finally i got him to pass over the list of names (not an easy feat), to check all the australians in the place to see if i could recognise any of his friends names. then, brillant "EDWARDS". so we left a note and went to find a place to stay. after about 45 mins of aimless wandering, well not aimless, but disapointing, we went into a posh place the Marine Inn. bartered down the price about $10 and then went back to the family inn to leave a note for nick. it was about 11:30pm by this stage. as we had driven in to patong (a part of phuket, popular for its 'working women' and lady boys and ping pong shows) we saw the party part of town and so we headed (or so i thought ) to this direction to see if we could find a needle in a haystack, nick. now me being the better of directions out of the two, paced off down the road in the direction i thought we came from, we reached the beach and amy was like, 'why did we come down here?'. this is the party place, i said and shes like, no it isn't, thats the other way. HAHAH. so i walked over to check out the beach. amy sat down, when i walked back, she was like, 'coby, i think thats your brother, can you hear that laugh' she pointed over to a bar and he was sitting there with his 7 friends!!! it was so weird. so that is my crazy story from patong. we went back to their hotel and swam in their nice pool for a coupld of hours and the security guard kept telling us off!! the next day when we went back, there was a sign up saying swimming from 10am-10pm, which had previously not been there. thats right, we had introduced a new rule in the hotel!!
anyway. we are about to go to the airport (yet again) to catch a plane to bangkok. Its weird, mum and dad always said that they got sick of airports, and i was always like, 'how could you get sick of airports, they are so much fun'. now i know. so far this trip we have caught 5 planes and spent hours waiting in airports, we have 5 flights left to take.....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. oh well.
happy new year to everyone. going to nepal tomorrow so not to sure when next email will be, so if you dont get one for a while, just asume i have fallen off mt everest.
love coby
