seth left today to head back to colorado. tina has stayed on with us for another couple days before she has to go home, as has noah, another milwaukee native we met here through seth. it turns out he's one of the few great heterosexual male hula hoopers in the chicago area. you would probably think that's some kind of joke, as i did when he told me that same thing, but after witnessing a demonstartion at a beach bar last night i am a believer. i have a video to prove it.
today the weather didnt let us get much done for the first few hours of the day, but eventually we managed to take a short but comical kayak trip, ending at a shrine built into a cave filled with hundreds of wooden penises. there was a vague explanation posted, but nothing that made it truly understandable... we enjoyed ourselves.
tmorrow we head to phuket where noah has a cousin that we're hoping can show us around. not sure how long we'll stay, but we're planning on staying in the general area until the full moon party on the 14th. after that we plan on heading north and maybe doing some treks in national parks, maybe moving toward some mountains.