Still Rockin

We Love this hotel! The last couple days have been kinda slow and easy. The rain has been flowing off and on so staying in a hotel with lots to do was great timing. If its raining too hard we can just stay here and have fun. Last night we did just that. They have a bar with live music and bartenders who do the bottle juggling thing, like Tom Cruise in the movie "cocktail". The band was Thai, and they did classic Rock covers all night. It was lots of fun. Most of the day the weather was great, but late in the afternoon the sky got dark and it started raining. We had to make a quick retreat from our cabana back to the hotel lobby. I thought I'd send along some pictures from the pool, so you could see how cool it is.

We've begun to plot our next move. I think were going to stay another couple days in Pattay, then we'll go back to Bangkok and catch a flight to Phuket. Phuket is on the Andaman Sea it's suppose to be really beautiful, with crystal clear water. This will be my first time in the Indian Ocean. I'm really looking forward to it.

With good internet service here in the hotel I have also started to work on the next couple legs of our trip. Harv and I want to see the Yangtse river in China before it is completely flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. In researching that trip I've found some tours that range from 5 to 20 days just depending on how much you want to see. Looking at all the stuff you get to see with the longer trips I'm leaning that way. It's kinda expensive, but I don't think China is the kinda place I wanna try the low budget backpacking thing in.

I've also been researching the Transiberian Railroad. There is a company that arranges all the visas, and puts together groups that travel together. Since Harv will probably fly out of China and then back to the U.S. I'm going to be on my own, so traveling with a group of Westerners sounds a little less frightening. Yeah I'm a little scared. I've been reading about this trip, and though nothing is scaring me off, it sounds like it's gonna be a little rough, well maybe a lot rough. You ever hear about fine Mongolian dining...I didn't think so. Apparently there's a lot of mutton involved...mmmmm good.