Thailand - Ko Phi Phi (Again)

We are back in the island of Ko Phi Phi to meet up with Jeremy and his co-workers, consisting of twenty-year-old ice skaters. (So Bill is happy.) Jeremy is Bill's cousin whom we stayed with in Buenos Aires last July:

When we were in Ko Phi Phi couple of weeks ago, we hadn't like it very much. The island was too crowded, but mostly we didn't like it because we were in the midst of a huge fight that lasted forty hours. I forgot what the fight was about, but I am sure it was Bill's fault.

We like Ko Phi Phi much better this time. We are staying at a more laid-back beach and it's fun being in a big group.

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Bill and me not fighting:

We are, however, back in the land of topless sunbathers. There's a topless girl walking on the beach, another one playing Smash Ball - it's like being in a Girls Gone Wild video. (So Bill is happy.) I am not sure why this annoys me so much. I'd like to think it has something to do with lack of respect for the culture-blah-blah, but I think I am just getting old.

We are staying in a concrete structure rather than a bamboo bungalow and yet I saw a frog and a lizard in our room, engaged in a stare-down contest. This morning, I woke up and turned my head sideways in the bed - lying next to me on the pillow was a cockroach-looking bug the size of my thumb. Bill heroically killed the bug and only squealed twice in the process.

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Bill snorkeling:

Monkeys eating bananas at the very originally-named Monkey Beach:

This is Bill getting a haircut at Krabi, the last town we were at. I will never understand Bill's choice of hair salons - he passed up a perfectly normal looking barber shop and walked into this one that not only cut hair, but sold wedding dresses, tea, dried fruit and took wedding pictures: