satureday in Samui - 16-04-2011

Sawadee Ka! WOW ! What a day! I was up early as usual to watch the sunrise, Rick slept in until much later which meant I got to use the netbook to catch up on the blog, emails and facebook. Rick and I thought it best we sorted out our stuff and packed before breakfast, that out of the way we headed down to the restaurant for our buffet breakfast and ate just a little too much. It's just so nice sitting there looking over the beach and the gulf of Siam its too good to rush away from. Rick went down to reception to hand in the key to our room and pick up the key to our villa. We are in villa 7 11, how funny, since thats where we go to stock up on our drinks and munchies every couple of days. The concierge came and picked up us and our stuff and drove us a little further up the hill to our new digs. Wow ! What a surprise, its awesome as any one who has been reading the blog and checking out the photos will see, its lavish and pretty freaking big. It has a loungeroom with TV, DVD, and Stereo, a kitchenette, huge bathroom and then an outdoor bathroom with an outdoor shower and a Jacuzzi, wicked ! From the loungeroom you walk downstairs into the bedroom which is massive with windows as walls all around and french doors that open out onto the deck and private pool, its amazing. The bedroom also has a tv. We still have our sea views over the Gulf of Siam. Its pretty flash , we have stayed in heaps of 5 star resorts here in Thailand but this has got to be the best so far, and it cost us nothing thats even better. We spent the day hanging out here. Later this arvo we managed to drag ourselves out of the place long enough to get on the scooter and head down to the 7/11 to get our usual supplies of drinks and munchies then took a walk down Choeng Mon beach to our little restaurant for some Thai food for dinner, the only thing now is we have a big hill to walk up to get to our villa, not that we are complaining, its worth a little exercise. It was time then for a night swim in the pool, perfect, in long enough to cool down and hit relax mode. Had a bit of washing to catch up on so thats where the Jacuzzi came in handy, fill it up, washing powder in, turn on the jets wamo instant washing machine, how cool ! I remember doing that before in Samui at the Cliff View resort when we stayed there when we backpacked around Thailand for 3 months, so now the deck outside looks like a Chinese laundry. Doesn't matter, its so private no one can see, only the housekeepers when they come to refresh the place tomorrow. Tomorrow we ARE going to drag ourselves out of here and get on the scooter and go around the island, do some sightseeing and hopefully some shopping, still got to get some more clothes to fill my backpack. Until Tomorrow! La kon