This morning we drove from our condo in Kamala Beach to Phuket Marina (about an hour and a half through traffic) to meet up with the boat we booked for an all day deep sea fishing excursion to Koh Racha Yai, an island a few miles South of Phuket. After a little time waiting around, […]
Read MoreToday was another adventure day! We met up with a tour van at another nearby hotel (saved us $200 baht per person to drive 10 minutes – so if you stay outside of a pickup area, feel free to ask where you could meet up to save yourself some $). We drove North to a […]
Read MoreAfter the long excursion yesterday we were ready for a relaxing day of sleeping in (until 8am, haha), getting a workout in, and swimming at the pool. Miss A and Spud had a blast coming up with funny ways to jump in the pool – Spiderman pose, swinging on vines like Tarzan, distracted teenager talking […]
Read MoreToday was an amazing adventure! Early this morning a van came to pick us up at our condo and drove us across the island to the Royal Phuket Marina – as usual on these excursions, Littlest girl got a nap in while we drove for an hour and a half. She’s a trooper with all […]
Read MoreThere is only one small branch of our church in all of Southern Thailand. We were lucky that it was only 45 minutes away from our condo. We were also lucky that when a box truck hit our rental car on the way to church that we only clipped mirrors and no visible damage was […]
Read MoreThe tooth fairy came to Thailand! Spud was so excited to get gummy teeth, a little hamster toy, and a 10 baht coin. Long long travel day today to get to our next destination… First we packed up & checked out of our rooms. A van from the Hua Hin Taxi Company came and picked […]
Read MoreThis morning started out with a lovely breakfast of…. Grilled cheese and corn sandwiches! And if you didn’t want that, you could have grilled cheese and sausage (think bland hot dog) or grilled cheese and raisin. Yum yum. Blech. Today the environmental volunteers joined us in working at the school, so we traveled in a […]
Read MoreSo remember how I said that we got half of the main section of wall painted light blue yesterday? Well, the new bucket of paint that we used didn’t *quite* match the color of the front or other side once it was dry. It took a long time to convince the coordinators that it wasn’t […]
Read MoreAnother breakfast at the Sunshine Center then 45 minutes in the back of the truck. This time the driver avoided the huge bump in the road that made us all fly yesterday. We got right to work where we left off – NixiRay painted a panel of fence purple as the background of a mural, […]
Read MoreThis morning after breakfast we got in the back of a truck with 4 other volunteers (2 german girls (Hannah is talkative, the other girl must not know English well), Callum from New York & Andrew from New Jersey), along with 2 volunteer coordinators and our driver). We drove 45 minutes through rural Thailand until […]
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