Koh Samed and the Say Anything Announcer

We got to Koh Samed without too much trouble, well at least I did. Sam had 60 kilo of baggage on his lap in the minibus. The ferry was oddly crowded but we survived by hiding in back with the pilot. The tourists up front got soaked. When we arrived we found the prices a little higher - about $40 US for a room with air conditioning, however the AC was worth it as it was very hot and humid.

We headed straight for the beach in front of our hotel and basically stayed there in one spot for 36 hours - at night they just change the beach chairs for tables. We only left to eat the cheaper local fare outside the resort, which was tastier. Sam's brother would have loved the insanely spicy larb salad. The swimming was great with the water pleasantly cool but not at all cold. Now I'll tell you about the "toy boy fie-mun."



And up next is "Buk hum lai" who is only 12 and def 100 percent virgin. If you want to take him for toy boy you can but watch out for dem thai police. And be careful because he too young to know yet if he ladyboy or not yet. Sometime you see on the street you don't know if they boy, girl, ladyboy, transhec, homoshec, or what. Scary. Anyway "Buk hum lai" good kid take year off to pay for school. Not like dem kids take money from parents for school and spend getting piss drunk and mushroom...."

That's basically the announcer for the firedancers who sounded exactly like the race car dude in Say Anything. The firedancers were 6 guys (one had the night off) who juggle torches and do all kinds of crazy acrobatics, even juggling actual fireworks at the end. It would be super illegal in the US especially as the ones at the top of the human pyramid were only between 12 and 15 years old. They were very impressive though the announcer was definitely the highlight.

Finally today we decided to head back to Bangkok to catch the train for Laos, after one final swim in which the mosquitos and jellyfish all came out to bid me a fond farewell. Between that and the sunburn I look like a proper Americal tourist now (i.e. lobster red.) We are hoping the train station isn't too crazy because the airport is completely shut down by protesters. If we can't get a train we'll stay at the Happy House again, don't worry it is far from the airport.

Sam's thoughts on Koh Samed:

The highlight was definitely the annoucer for the fire show. There was a lot of beautiful fat euros wearing speedoos and damn g-strings all over. The guys were wearing g-strings! Other than that, Amy pretty much covered it all minus the parts about only eating $2 US per meal for the both of us and only 2 meals a day.