Hello there,
Today was the laziest of days.
And it was lovely.
We've been pulling long and packed days every day of the trip so far and so today was a designated "do nothing" day.
Our day started with an all you can eat breakfast buffet by the beach. We showed up 15 minutes before the buffet ended and they guy working wanted desperately for us to get all the food we could eat as well as he wanted to clean up so he took it upon himself to personally bring us all the food he thought we would like while we were already getting ourselves food. This was the end result.
Needless to say, there was leftovers.
We then went to the beach for some R&R which lasted about two hours before the wind had other ideas for our day. While the sun was still high in the sky and the ocean waves still kissed the shores the wind reared its fierce face. If you've never been pelted on the bare skin across your entire body by sand being whipped through the air, let me tell you, it's not the most pleasant experience. Bodies covered head to toe in sand we took to the sea to clean off only to be recoated once again as soon as we left the water.
We headed back to the hostel and sought refuge from the flying sand in our room after lengthy showers in which I tried and failed to get the sand out of my hair and ears. A brief cat nap later and we were heading to Starbucks.
Chestnut white chocolate mocha frappucino? Sure!
With our Starbucks in hand, we headed to one of the spas down the street and partook in a 15 minute "fish spa". This entails dipping your feet in a tank filled with small fish who nibble at the dead skin on your feet. Curiosity won over in our decision to experience such an odd thing.
I must say, I never knew I was so ticklish until I had 30 little fish nibbling on my feet. It was the most strange feeling and anyone that watched my snapchat story got the audiovisual version of the experience. Let's just say I was childishly freaking out. There was some larger fish in the tank who's bites actually hurt so it was the oddest sensation of tickling and pinching.
Sceptical about how beneficial this was we were final able to get used to the fish after 12 minutes and enjoyed it for the last three minute. And let me tell you, after just 15 minutes with these little guys my feet were as soft as a babies bottom.
After our fish spa we walked around in and out of the various shops and down to Kata Beach (sorry for lame iPhone photos, didn't feel like lugging my big camera around the shops).
Outside every restaurant here in Karon Beach, Phuket are large displays of fish on ice that you can purchase to take home and cook for yourself. At this particular place there was a shark.
Before dinner and after our walk we went back to Karon Beach to watch the sunset. It was magnificent as always.
Dinner tonight took place at a little Italian restaurant and we indulged in amazing margherita pizza before heading to our favourite spa for a hand and arm massage. Seriously it's not hard getting into this Phuket tourist lifestyle.
After the spa we walked across the street to the pancake stand and got Nutella and banana crepes. It goes without saying that they were fantastic.
To finish off the night we could see fireworks going off over top the building across from where we were eating our crepes.
As always, thanks for following along and prayers for safety and health are greatly appreciated. Tomorrow we go trekking through the jungle on elephants. I think I'll die of happiness.
-mo
