Luc and I found Nemo and his dad!

Its good to know that they speak Canadian here. I was worried.
Island kitty, living the island lifestyle
Lucas with a school of zebra fish



We're here on beautiful Koh Phi Phi. Even though the sun has been lacking, I'm enjoying the island lifestyle. No time limits (except on the internet because it's 2bhat a minute), beaches, and crystal water. Yesterday, we had a day at the beach. Our guesthouse is 30 seconds away. It was nice. The water is a little colder here than Patong Beach, but it was still nice. We enjoyed seeing the long boats gathered on shore. Every second you turn around, someone is shouting at you "taxi boat, taxi boat?" Luc said that after Asia, telemarketers aren't so bad. Right now, we can here the mosque calling to prayer. Phi Phi is a Muslim island, and the hundreds of cats that walk the streets are great. Everyone seems to have a cat. Yesterday, there were people walking with their kitten. The kitten was wading in the water, and comes when he's called. The cats are so friendly and obedient. We keep coming back to this Internet cafe because the cat here will come and jump into my lap for a cuddle when I call to it!

We're staying at the Pier Guesthouse. Mom and Dad, you stayed at the Phi Phi Hotel. When you were sitting at the hotel pool, did you notice the crappy, run down place looking over it as well? That's where we are staying. It's not so bad really, but the water smells like eggs. Kind of a turn off. But the room has a bed, air con, tv, and bathroom, and that's what I need.

Today, we made our way via long boat to Long Beach. There wasn't much around there, but the sand was white and soft, and the water was full of fish. I started going in the water when I was surrounded but transparent looking with with black tipped fins. I immediately told Lucas was had to rent masks and snorkels. When we did, we dove in, and were amazed. There was a school of zebra like fish that hung around us, swimming with us, not scared at all. When we went out a little further, there were rainbow coloured fish, purple fish with turquoise fins, angelfish, AND clowfish and Dori fish. It was like the whole story of Finding Nemo was playing out before our eyes. The clownfish even had a baby Nemo, and they were playing in the anemone!!! It was amazing.

We have been in contact with our travel agent, and he said we have to cal Vietnam Airlines, to get them to change our flight, since we're not going to be able to leave out of Bangkok. It's too late to do it right now, but tomorrow, I'm going to see if we can fly out of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. We'd have to make our own way to KL though. It's a 13 hour bus ride from Krabi if we go that route. If we do have to do that, I would like to see KL, even if it is for a day. This whole situation is getting ridiculous. It's obvious that there are many people not happy with the current government, why can't they just call an election?? I want this sorted out now.