Merry Christmas!

I made it! The flight was fairly decent, despite being close to 10 hours, plus bus rides and such. Well worth it though, I forgot how much I missed the sun and the sand. Unfortunately I brought along a cold with me. It started out as the sniffles and a scratchy throat and by the time I reached Bangkok it was a "My head and nose hurt, my eyes are watering and who is gonna take care of me????" feeling. I am probably the first guest the hotel has ever seen check into the hotel with her winter jacket still on. Anyhow I loaded up on dimetapp and tylenol and I feel better today than I did yesterday and hoping I will feel better tomorrow than I do today.

First off, my hotel is AMAZING. You know how when you get somewhere and you are happy with your place until you see the other places surrounding it? My place is that place! I had Christmas cookies as a greating, escort to my room, baggage delivery. I am so spoiled! I love it.

I woke up this morning and walked around the hotel to check out my surroundings: the fitness centre, the spa, the tennis courts, the (3) pools...and then I headed out to the beach and checked out the stores. Lots of cool things to look and potential souveneirs but will give it a few days in hopes of finding other stuff.

Started working on my tan in the late morning and then took a break from it with a relaxation massage and a facial. Went back to tanning afterwards and fell asleep by the pool.

Spent the last few hours just wandering again and had some Shrimp Cashew Nut with rice for dinner. Delicious. There is also a fantastic looking room service menu that I will have to check out while I'm here as I'm not such a fan of eating alone in restaurants. (Says the girl who can up and move to Korea on her own, fly to Thailand alone, but god forbid she should sit at a table alone).

Tomorrow I have a day tour around Phuket and I am going to book another tour for Wednesday, either to Phi Phi Island, where The Beach was filmed, or James Bond Island, where some other lesser known movie was filmed....

Anyhow I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!