First, I would like to clear the air on the game of war Veronika and I had the other day. She claims to have quit because the game was taking to long. We were only playing for half an hour which is only scrapping the surface of a real war (unless you play in Vegas with a crooked dealer). I was down to 2 cards and made the most improbable comeback. We then were faced with a war and I had won. In the process I took two of her aces and had levelled the playing field. The empire felt the pressure of the rebellion and decided to forfeit rather than be on the other end of the greatest war comeback of all time!!!!
When we first arrived at Ton Sai Veronika had noticed that we had a frog chilling on one of our plants in the bathroom. It didn't look real to me so we decided to splash some water on it. If it was real we were responsible for it and there was no way I was about to let it sleep all day. Not in my house! After a couple of days we noticed that the frog had turned from a lime green to a greyish green. Before we knew it, the frog had grown legs (that's right it didn't look like it had any at first) and was now a dark green. How fast they grow up. I only hope that we had tought this frog what it needs to know to live a good life and not fall into the wrong crowd. Gangs in the animal kingdom reign supreme here ( I will explain later).
Yesterday after the epic war watch, Veronika and I decided to walk back to our hotel for a nap. Eating lunch takes a lot out of you in this heat. Overhead, we heard the trees swinging and to our disbelief there was a monkey swinging in the trees. At first I thought they followed us from monkey island but this one looked different. Before we knew it, there was four of these monkeys surrounding us from above. I had a bad feeling and when that happens I normally run. Vasco and Rocco can confirm this from the night at Gee's house when the TV turned on in the middle of the night. I let Veronika know why I was concerned. I told her about the Planet of The Apes. I know it is only a movie but you never know. She obviously laughed at me so I made a decision then and there. I threw a bananna into the bushes and started to run away (luckily I always carry a bananna with me). I heard Veronika yelling for me to come back but I was already too far.
Last night, we went to a bar where a Thai band was playing. It was a pretty cool beach side bar with a lot of backpackers hanging out. Backpacker strike an eery similarity to hippies. It's only a thought right now but you can bet I will launch a full investigation. When the band decided to take a break a couple of locals decided to entertain themselves. They grabbed a rope and soaked it with carosine (spelling?) and started to swing it like a jump rope. First things first, I always thought jump rope was stupid as a child but it is flat out inappropriate past the age of 11. But when you are over the said age and you are playing jump rope with a flaming rope, it is flat out retarded. Even more so when on cue, a guy that resembled my old friend Keith started jumping through this rope. After a few skips the Thai guys (who were clearly drunk) started to lose control. I don't know if one side decided to switch directions or if one of them yelled "pepper"*see defintion at the bottom of page*. Anyways the rope ended up smacking the morons back and the game came to a hault. The guy doing the jumping looked completely shocked, like this was the last thing that could happen during the jump rope.
Ton Sai was comparable to Never Never Land. Although Peter Pan never showed his face, I swear to you I saw Rufio. So far on this trip I have gone snorkelling, learned to ride a scooter and climbed a cliff (because Veronika and I decided to save $4 by not taking a taxi boat). Those of you that were in Jamaica, where I napped on the beach all day and drank an absurd amount of beer, can already see a massive improvement in activity. I don't have the exact figures but I'm pretty sure activity is up 300% (sorry no pie chart).
Due to popular demand, Veronika has posted some pics on facebook. Check em out.
*Peppers= the people swinging the rope on each end of the jump rope yell this when they want to speed up the pace to a damn near impossible speed.
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Yes! THIS is the Thailand I was hoping for. As interesting as beaches and sand are - monkeys, flaming jump ropes and poisonous frogs (it could have been poison, right?) are FAR more interesting.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when you mentioned running, I was thinking about that time at the pet store when I pretended to take a snake out of the cage and chased you around the store with my clenched fists. You kept running even though you knew FULL WELL I didn't have a snake in my hand.
Anyways, keep up the good work.