Hey y'all. I feel like a bunch has happened the past few days. So, today is Saturday evening our time, Saturday morning your time, well, maybe still Friday night for some of you. Anyway, Meg and I only have a few days left before our plane is due to take off from Bangkok towards Seattle on Tueday morning. So, on Friday we left Lamai Beach on Ko Samui and headed to Bo Phut Beach on the north end of the island. But Meg and I were craving some live music the night before we left and so on Thursday we went to a bar that had happy hour drinks before visiting an Irish Pub that had a live band.
As we got closer to the pub we began to hear live Nineties music. Loud music that we could hear three shops down the road. The band was a cover band, and we were stoked about that. The band consisted of a drummer, a bassist, guitarist, a keys player, and two female singers, one who was lead and the other back-up. The lead singer could wail. Really wail. How good you ask, well, she covered "I'll always love you" by Whitney Houstin and drilled it. Yeah, I was pretty impressed too. Anyway, they played all sorts of stuff, anything from Radiohead to Eric Clapton and we dabbled with the idea of dancing, but were a bit timid since no one else in the bar seemed to be feeling the music like we were. But then they played Zombie by the Cranberries. Now, I love the song Zombie by the Cranberries and I told Meg as soon as we got to the pub that that's the song I wanted to hear, I don't know why exactly, I guess it's because that song rocks, and the woman on stage could sing. So when they began the song, we got up and began to dance. Like hippie-dance. And we loved every minute of it. We danced our socks off that night, well, we weren't wearing any socks, but we danced our sandles off and went barefoot in the bar. We danced for the next eight or ten songs after Zombie. At one point we took a break and went back to our table, but an English guy walked by and gave me a pat on the back and Meg a kiss on the cheek and so we went back on the self-made dancefloor that we had created. By the end of the night my shirt looked like I went swimming in the Gulf, (I tend to sweat when I'm dancing my socks off, in case anyone out there didn't know). Thursday night was the most fun night of the trip thus far and a good note to leave Lamai Beach on. The weather has gotten slightly better since we've gotten to Bo Phut (good enough to burn us a bit), but it's still a bit cloudy throughout the day. Bo Phut has a lot of cool shops and restaurants/bars and seems like a much more charming place than Lamai. We plan to stay at this beach for the rest of the trip.
We hope all is well with all y'all.
- J
