vacay

hey all you kids out there, i decided to suck it up and do another post. this one is not going to be very exciting because all i have done since the last is go on vacation! which was just ridiculously gorgeous. myself and 7 others went to Koh Chang (elephant island), in the gulf of thailand, for a week. not to knock those classy new jersey beaches, but this water was Blue! i couldn't handle it, ocean water is brown, greenish if you are lucky, but surely not blue. not only was it blue but it was a different shade of blue depending where you were, crazy. we went on a 5 island snorkeling trip one day, and though the snorkeling part wasn't so good under the water, the surface of the water was just breathtaking. and where we were was pretty untouched and so some of the islands looked like something king kong or a dinosaur or something would bust out of, i'm really sorry that i am just not talented enough to explain them, but it was the prettiest place i have ever been. i got pretty badly sunburned that day, go figure, and i swear i bruised my tailbone on the the way back to our island because we had a psycho captain and it was about to storm. our boat spent more time in the air then on the water i think.

my other major activity was an elephant ride. my friend and i went out for two hours on an elephants back. it was definitely an experience, it was kind of weird and our elephant was having none of the whole thing. did you know that elephants growl? no, not growl, roar? not that trumpety thing you hear but a sound not much different than a lion. so that is a scary sound. and when you are sitting on the back of a elephant repeatedly making that sound, and you can feel his chest vibrating with it through your feet, it's a pretty terrifying experience. but we survived it, we even got to go bareback on the elephant and swim with it in the river: another slightly scary experience because you never feel like it would be that hard for him to just trample you to death and have less weight to carry on the way back. overall it was a great time and though the whole idea may be questionable from an animal rights standpoint or some crap like that it was fun and no elephants were harmed. at least in front of us. also, an added bonus was that they had 3 baby baby elephants there too and i got to play with one. and by play with i mean feed a banana and have him wrap his little trunk around my arm. it was the cutest thing i've ever seen. mom i want one for christmas.

the rest of the time i just sat around by the pool or on the beach, which was less than 10 steps from our little bungalow and read and got burned. i also scored some minor injuries in a skinny dipping incident that i won't go into, but suffice to say that you should be sure that if you are somewhere where tides change that a) your clothing is nowhere near the water, it may get swept away, and b) be sure that there is water deep enough to swim in that is not mostly coral and/or rocks. just some suggestions that my friend told me.

i feel like there was something else i wanted to say, but i forget it now and it must not have been important anyway.
ps they celebrate halloween in thailand!

have fun with the time change, they don't do that crazy stuff here.

read The Master and Margarita it's some good stuff.

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