27/05/2009 - 29/05/2009 Hat Yai

27/05/2009 - Mummy's Birthday, we sent some flowers
4 hours on the shuttle, no probs thru border and visa all good.. English Budhist with mobile phone and smoking at every chance, didn't seem right... he was delighted that Thailand were an hour behind so he could still eat before 12... we think thats cheating a bit
What a crap hole, I thought Nic was going to cry again... nice hotel tho, we are staying at the Kosit http://www.kosithotel.com/ for about 10.0 per night, made sure we had satellite TV ready for the champs league final which I just about stayed awake to see then fell asleep, woke up 4 minutes into it to see the first Barca goal, then I woke again with Nic moaning about the noise when Alex ferguson was being interviewed... gutted I missed it.. I hear Utd weren't up to it, did they really miss Darren Fletcher that much? they will probably re-run it today (28th).
we wandered, got a Tuk Tuk down to the main bus station, some wierd girl jumped on with us for the ride, kept squeezing my leg, very strange, and singin, Nic was well pissed off!!! got ripped off a bit apparently Tuk Tuk should be 20 Baht a person, we paid 60... will know for tomorrow (29th)... we'll need to get back down there for a bus tomorrow, should be fun, can't buy a ticket just pay as you get on, they go to Trang every 40 mins..
We met some really nice guys from Singapore, Leo, Li and Eye.. we sat chatting for ages and they invited us to dinner with them, they are Muslim so we went to a Halal place, no pork on the premises, Eye ordered everything, they even slyly paid... we had Sea fungus, like white mushroom, salt fish, dry beef, rice, veg, Tom yam prawn soup, fish noodle salad, was really good...
We saw an elephant in the street after, very odd, they wanted you to buy food to feed it...
We took the guys for a drink, they don't drink alcohol but gave us a chance to chat a bit more..
We might see them tomorrow, they are getting mopeds... Nics isn't feeling too good so we'll see... I had to check the symptoms of swine flu for her...

28/05/2009
Nic still not too good... went and found Dim Sum which was really good... we came back to the Hotel to do a bit of the blogg, Nic felt ill again so went up 3 hours ago, I've been sitting here for 5 hours according to the time, thats 100 Baht altogether... and I need a beer.. have finished everythin since Singapore, not bad with me 2 finger typing... we now need to catch up New zealand
Don't know what we'll do later, should go see the guys from last night...
We picked up the email from Mich about Bob popping the question, well done guys...
TO BE CONTINUED....
Nic here! Well, we ventured out again for dinner, I was feeling a bit better. Wandered around & saw the guys from Singapore & walked around a shopping mall with them for a bit....J resisted the nice white Y fronts! Said godbye to the guys & found a restaurant for dinner. Mmmmm Chicken & Ginger, rice, veggies & crispy pork all washed down with a beer for J & another water for me! God 1st beer free day for ages! Back to the hotel stopping on route for room supplies, beers, OJ & some nice fresh fruit from a roadside stall! Watched a movie then bed!

29/5/09
Got up, I'm feeling a bit better so went for brekkie which was a disaster, ham & eggs on toast but their toast has sugar in it so didn't taste that good. Stopped for another dim sum brekkie, so, so, then off to the internet cafe to update BLOG on NZ & J's looking at Ko Lanta accomodation, looking good nice beach bungalow's with pool! Yes we decided where to go next!
Well after hours in the internet cafe & finding the most recent Lonely Planet guide to Thailand where it said not to go to H.Yai because of it's terrorist bombings we found the Irish bar & 4 vodka tonics & a few beers later we were steamin!
I went to 'Siam & Guy' instead of 'Toni & Guy' for a haircut, Jay came looking for me after 1 hour as he was worried, ahh bless!! Really gopod haircut, bit short but straight & shiny yes!
Beers in hotel then out for dinner to a steakhouse for fried chicken, pork steak & proper veggies yum. Found a bar with a funny menu that included crispy swamp cabbage, Pork innards, deep fried snake head & stinky bean with pork! Oh & not forgetting deep fried bird with garlic & pepper! Obviously this was the best dish in the house!
Off now for sleep before journey tomorrow to ko Lanta!