Photoblogging From Paradise

My babe of a mom

and my baby and I

have been expelled from Koh Phi Phi.

I'm already thinking we should go back in October for John's mid-semester break. (Note: he just told me mid-semester break has been cancelled. Instead school started one week late. Crap. Poor John.) It's even nicer than it looks. There are beautiful flowers everywhere, both growing, and picked and made into arrangements. I find it induces a strange feeling of guilt (rather than the intended hedonism) to pee on the flowers in your toilet bowl, but this is the only aesthetic twinge I felt the whole time. The food is magnificent. Crispy fish salad that's almost fluffy. Tom yam. Whole fried white snapper in chilli and lime sauce. Papaya salad (deadly hot). Pee Pee Island Village. That's what it's all about. The rest of the island is reputed to be sort of a backpacker slum in places, but I wouldn't know, because I never bothered to get in the boat and go. Since you have to get there via Phuket (or potentially Krabi), you also get to go to Phuket Town, and shop and eat. Mmm. Fried weird things. (Mom and I saw a motorcycle vendor of fried bug larvae mixed with tiny whole fried fish. We didn't get any.) Look at the bounty of fruits and veggies on sale.

All you have to do is fly to Bangkok, fly to Phuket, go on a 2-hour ferry ride, and then get on one of these.

People, it is so worth it

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[John Anderson]

Phuket? Uh... Well, I suppose it IS vacation time.