Day 20

Well we never actually ended up leaving Ao Nang... Levi did end up finding me finally and we checked into a nice guesthouse right off the beach. Did so wandering around when I decided that I wanted to spend my afternoon at a King Cobra show... Levi wasn't thrilled so he wandered off to check out a mosque and go for a run. Meanwhile I was enjoying the thrill of sitting 3 feet away from deadly snakes while some crazy guy (whos been bit FIVE times by the King Cobras and is somehow still alive!!! Though missing a finger and has some terrible scars...) teased the snakes in the pit (and by pit I mean a foot tall wall...) making them strike at him. He started out with one about 3/4 feet long... then three... then put them away only to replace them with a 7ish foot long one... then a FIFTEEN FOOT LONG one! When that thing lunged it lunged up and over the barrier toward the audience, YIKES. It's funny, this would never happen back home... I love that about traveling... Most of the things we end up doing/seeing would be illegal or just never even thought of in the states. Afterwards I met up with Levi who had flooded our room (the shower smartly points right at the bathroom door) and got some delicious dinner. Then the power went out, go figure! Seems to be a common occurrence around here!

Today was lovely though (I can't believe I just used the word lovely... you pick up a strange assortment of words/languages while traveling...) We went to a geothermal hot springs which was pretty cool. It was like a series of tiered pools all about 42 degrees Celsius (aka hotter than hell) that drained into a river which was sooo refreshing to jump into from the springs! Then we went to a place called the Emerald Pool. After a walk through the jungle it was like a little oasis lagoon of turquoise water with a sandy bottom and a board walk around the edge to hang out on. A small stream lead to it and a small stream lead out keeping the water fresh and clean. There were a lot of Thai families there, the kids are so cute! A nice family that Levi met the day before invited us to go with them which was soo much cheaper than a tour! We came back up to Ao Nang and were debating about whether or not to catch a long tail boat tonight to Railay when we decided to just stay here for the night and THANK GOODNESS we did because MONSOOOOON!!!! It's crazy! In the last hour we've probably gotten about 4 inches of rain and it's so loud you can barely hear the person next to you talking! The nice lady at our guesthouse lent us an umbrella :) And the thunder and lightening is intense... I love storms :) We'll see how the weather is in the morning before really decided on our next move!