Final Full Phuket Day

We woke up casually today but feeling back to our usual selves. We had a quick breakfast in the condo and headed down to the pool to hang until lunch. We tried to print out ferry tickets for the trip to Koh Lanta but the main office here is weird. Since it's a condo association (or whatever it's called) they aren't as helpful as in a hotel. She tried to explain to me why she couldn't print it for me, but I was standing there looking at their giant copier (it was a Ricoh). 

Anyways, I figured it out by messaging to our Airbnb host. After that fiasco we went to lunch for more pad Thai and then down to the beach. It was much calmer today wave wise, but just as blue and beautiful. 

(Beach pics)

(The other side)

We noticed there are a lot of Russians here, or the Slovakian type of people. I guess it's kind of like their Carribean or Mexico or whatever but it's different - we don't see to many Russians in Mexico (or wherever you take your tropical vacations). 

We chilled for awhile and I made some good progress in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I didn't see myself being big into mystery books but I'm into this one. And will probably read the other ones at this point because why not. 

After beaching we headed back, drank some prosecco while playing a round of cribbage. We stopped keeping track of the score because I started to win more than Alex. Kidding, but I think we stopped to prevent arguments over cribbage because it can definitely get heated (especially when Alex or I are hungry). 

We headed out to dinner and ice cream and wandered the night market. The ice cream was the best we've had so far. Nami'a Homemade ice cream. She literally has you try every flavor. If you stand there for a second to think she'll scoop another taster for you before you can make a decision - it's amazing. I got dark chocolate (I've never had this dark of chocolate ice cream before) and popcorn. I was expecting the popcorn to taste like the jelly bean flavor but it was surprisingly delicious. That's probably why she forces samples upon you so you actually try a bunch of flavors. 

We talked about how weird it is that this trip is coming to a close. It's going to be weird the first couple days of not being with each other every single moment. Literally for the last eight weeks we've been together the entire time. What's going to happen?

The market we went to was average, more of your fake name brand stuff and low quality trinkets. We didn't last long and took a tuk tuk back to the condo. The sun is amazing but it really is tiring. I know, listen to me, "vacation is tiring" it's terrible. I don't know what's going to happen when I have to actually work during the day. 

We head out tomorrow around noon to get on a ferry to Koh Lanta. I expect it to be a little quieter there, and were also staying in a hostel, so not as fancy. But Phuket has been amazing! And I didn't think I wanted to come here - thank God Alex made sure it happened. Sorry the blogs aren't as interesting but we're really just beach hanging for the next couple days. I hope you're still enjoying the trip!

"How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you."

- Sarah Reijonen