All Thai'd up

I'm loving these post titles hahaha!

We arrived in Bangkok at 6am on 29th Dec. Our plan was to fly down to Ko Samui, and then catch the ferry over to Ko Phangan for our "holiday!" - I'd booked us a luxury beach bungalow right on the seafront. Our connecting flight wasn't until 12hrs later - and the thought of waiting in Bangkok airport for that amount of time was killing us - we hadn't even slept from the night before because of the time difference so we were feeling shattered. Luckily after being put on the stand-by list, we managed to get on an earlier flight to Samui at 10.30am - yes!!! The airport in Samui is hilarious - it's basically a collection of a few beach huts and nothing more. Very strange after arriving in Bangkok's new fancy airport!!
We found a beach hut in Chaweng beach and spent one night in Samui. We went out and tasted some of the nightlife... it's a good laugh but very like your typical English holiday resort. It's got a Macdonalds, Burger King etc etc. Lots of bars showing football etc etc. We were only here for one night before catching the ferry over to Ko Phangan on 30th Dec. Once we arrived in Ko Phangan you could tell the difference in islands. Ko Phangan is much more untouched. It was a main tourist area, Haad Rin, but apart from that the whole island is pretty much a traditional Thai place, with Thai restaurants, and beach huts lining the coast. It's beautiful!
Our bungalow was great, nestled amongst our own little garden and right on the beach. We chucked our bags in, had something to eat, then in the evening went back into Haad Rin to sample a few of the local drinks!
For New Years Eve we had bought tickets to go to a club on Ko Samui. We lazed around all day then at about 7pm we got ready and went to the pier to catch the ferry back to Samui. To our horror we realised nobody seemed to be waiting around for the boats. We asked a guy on the pier and he told us the last boat across left at 6pm!!!! NOOOOO!!! So we were all dressed up with somewhere to go, but were stranded on a tropical island with no way of getting there haha! God if it could only happen to anyone it would be us!!! After panicking for about half an hour we spotted a speedboat pulling in dropping off a few rich passengers to their hotel. We ran over and asked the driver if he was heading back to Samui - he was... and he would take us for a tenner each!! Result!! So not only did we make the party but we also travelled their in style heheheh!!
The club was really good, we met up with a couple of friends from home, Steve and Wayne, who are here on a three week holiday. It felt strange being so far away from home seeing in the New Year but it was a great experience and one I'd definately do again.

On 3rd Jan we experienced our first Full Moonparty!!! This is a monthly event held on Ko Phangan which normally attracts thousands of clubbers. Its one of the main reasons we wanted to come here and it was definately worth it! It's held on Haad Rin beach - the place is packed with people from all over the world having a good time. They have different stages playing every different type of music, fireworks, beach entertainment, body painting, fire-throwing etc. It's a great night and a great experience. We met up with some more people from back home and had a brilliant night... it just went too quickly! I would definately recommend anyone who gets down here to go to at least one!

Since then we've had a bit of bad luck health-wise and weather wise!!! Firstly, we're in the middle of a four day storm that's hit south Thailand. Basically it has rained constantly for two days now and I don't think it will be ending any time soon. How annoying to be stuck in one of the most beautiful places in the world and the weather is terrible!
Also, I have seemed to have picked up an infection in my leg from a mosquito bite - just my luck! I am prone to getting bitten and somehow one of them got infected. I started to notice it swelling up on New Years Eve, I went to the doctors and he said it was an abscess and I had to wait until it was ready to be drained. I had to hobble around for a few days in a lot of pain!! It was my birthday on 5th of Jan and I had to go in the the surgery and have the abscess drained. Oh my God the pain was unbelievable!!! He numbed it but I could still feel him digging about in my leg - ouch!! What a c.rap birthday!
The doctor put me on two courses of antibiotics and strong painkillers so I have been laid up in bed since then. I have to go back to the surgery every day to have the dressings changed and the wound cleaned so it will probably take at least another week to heal. What bad luck! So at the moment me and Jon are sitting in our fancy bungalow in the pouring rain watching films every day. Jon is being great and feeding me all my tablets as and when I need them, he's a good nurse ;o)

We check out tomorrow (8th Jan) and we're not sure of our plans yet. It depends if my leg is well enough to move on, if not we might have to stay here for a few more days. We'll just take each day as it comes and see what happens :o)