Phi Phi

HIGHLIGHTS

- Oh my goodness! The entire day. This was what the other boat cruise gone bad was supposed to be. We snorkled and kayaked and watched an amazing orange sunset and an equally amazing orange moonrise. Got to swim from the boat over this crazy coral stuff onto different islands. Went to the island where the movie The Beach was filmed. Less impressive, I think, when you haven't seen the movie. But we got to go through a cool cave thing to get there.

- More on snorkeling. The COOLEST fish. Amazing visibility and so many colors. The fish we're like the coolest irridescenty things. And there were ones with like neon leopard print and ones with huge fat heads and ones that were rainbow/see-through and then i saw some sharks. Yeah, dangerous, huh? They were just little guys. Maybe like 2-3 ft long. SOOO cool though. Loved every second!

- So Blair's a closet picky eater. For as low-key as she is about most things, not about food preferences. So we went to this place that sold Italian food and she got bruschetta. Displeased, she ended up basically eating a bagette as she dumped the toppings off on her plate. The men at the table next to us looked at her with sad faces, feeling bad that she didn't like it. Turns out they were Italian, ironically. They, on the other hand, were eating amazing chocolate sundaes. She made big eyes at his sundae and turned back to her bread. Soon a long spoon with chocolate fudge covered chocolate ice cream appeared in front of her face. He was sharing. She tried to turn it down but I told her she couldn't and that we needed the experience for our highlight section. So, Highlight: Random Italian man feeding Blair ice cream.

LOWLIGHTS

- Sleeping on what was the equivalent of a gymnastics mat.

- Inadvertantly started dred locks with our unkempt hair that is washed only in pools and oceans, then blown around to perfection by the wind on boat rides.

- Want to hear an all-time hygene low? I know, you thought they couldn't get any worse. So almost none of the restrooms have TP. True story. So occassionally, desperate times call for despeate measures and necessity is the matter of invention so who says that the last few pages of a good paperback don't do just as good of a job. Certainly not Blair Pettijohn. Man, never a dull moment when traveling with this girl.