Ko Phangan

Monsoon season has had its effect on our travels. The weather has been cooler but the sun has been out less. With that said, it has been a little hard to find things to do that are fun that don't cost money. Fortunately we have found some great little restaurants that show movies throughout the day. We travelled over here with the Canadian girls we met at Ko Tao. We went to the half moon party our second night here. Apparently if you have travelled anywhere through southeast asia you have at least heard of the full moon party if not been to it. Everytime there is a full moon there is the giant party on the beach with flame throwers and bands and all kinds of good stuff. Andrea and I had planned to be ehre for the full moon party but because of the weather decided to head over early with the Daphne and Marla (the Canadians) and go to the half moon party instead. I thought there was going tro be this big meaning behind why they have this party every full moon, but it turns out that some guy who apparently was pretty populr around here had a birthday party however many years ago and it was so much fun they decided to just have a big party every full moon, and now every half moon probably to bring in even more money to the island. The half moon aprty was back in the woods and it was nuts! There were guys doing florescent paint tattoos and these dj boothes that looked like they were in the trees. It was soooo much fun but with that said we spent most of the next day in our room recovering. Our friends left yesterday and since the weather was cloudy we decided tor ent a jeep ($15 for 3 hours - I love this place!) and cruise around the island. I had to drive since Andrea can't drive a standard and I'm not gonna lie I was a little nervous at first since not only are there massive mountain hills that we have to drive on to get in and uot of our beach area, bt they drive on the opposite side of the road and the drivers seat is where our passengers seat is. I got the hang of it pretty fast and we cruised all over the island. It is much bigger than I realized. We were back in this woodsy area with just a dirt rouad and Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven came on the radio. It was so random. Then last night we met up witha guy we are rooming with and played cards till around 1am and watche dold episodes of Friends at one of the restaurants. Today Andrea and I went on an elephant trek. I would like to say that enjoyed it, but I really didn't. It ended up just making me really sad fro the elephants. I will spare the details in case Kristen reads this (she is about as much of an animal lover as I am, if not more), but I left wondering if there was anythign I could do to help protect these animals from having to live in the conditions they currently are. Enough about that. I think we are goign to see a Thai boxing match tonight and head back up to Bangkok tomorrow to get our visas for Cambodia.