A year in China: The Last Days

Ok, so finally this is my last vacation post, even I'm getting tired of looking at the pictures. Ok, well that's a lie because I like to look and transport myself back there. Not that I'm complaining about China, but who wouldn't rather be on a beach sipping cocktails, tanning, while someone else is cleaning the room and doing the laundry? You see my point.

We left Chiang Mai and headed to the paradise that is Koh Samui. We stayed in a fabulous hotel sort of at the end of the "strip" which was nice since we weren't exactly looking for a crazy party scene. We spent our last days of vacation just bumming around the island, doing as little as possible. We did a lot of shopping, eating, tanning, and just basically relaxing. We rented a jeep there one day, which only Missy could drive since the rest of us are manual driving impaired. She did an amazing job driving on the wrong side of the rode, a much better job driving than we did navigating. Who can get lost on an island the size of my grandparent's backyard you ask? I plead the 5th.

our first 10 minutes in Koh Samui, waiting for beverages

"our" beach Koh Samui

me, being very happy, on our beach

Meghan on our trek to find a waterfall that we are sure never existed

the view while we waited to for our food to come

Missy posing so we would all remember her sweet driving ability

chillin'

the sunset during our road trip around the island

Jessica and the Buddha

Me, Meghan, and Missy drank 2 bottles of Prosecco waiting for the BEST massage I've ever or will ever have in my life

We flew to Bangkok in the morning and spent the day there, before we all left the next morning. My plane was the first to take off, leaving at 1am and the others all left around 6am. This didn't leave too much time for Bangkok, but it was so hot that we didn't really feel like doing much anyway. Missy and I sort of roamed around the historical museum but it was so hot and my toes were swelling into little sausages so we decided to forego sightseeing for beer drinking. We separated from Meghan and Jess since they wanted to see the stuff we saw already. On our way back to the hotel we saw them sitting at a table, doing the exact same thing we had just finished. Apparently it was a little too hot for all of us. I can't even imagine what summer is like there! We went back, showered, and then had a lovely last dinner at the Oriental Mandarin (or is the other way around?) hotel. It was a great way to end the vacation, if such a vacation needed to end.