just dive right in.

well..........we're here. you know, travelling is the worst part about travelling. we walked to our bus stop at 6pm (the boys had to be on their bus at 7pm) and the bus showed up at 7pm anyway. it was a sweet-ass bus this time, reclining seats with little leg rests, movies (and not crap asian disco or sketch comedies, REAL movies), and air conditioned but not -45 C a/c. just as we were falling into a deep sleep, shea and i were kicked off in the middle of nowhere at 3am. so, we sat at this little stall for about 45 minutes when other buses started showing up - along with the boys. then about 15 minutes later we were put on another bus. awesome! we got all cozied in, we all had our own seats...we drove approximately 4 minutes than were kicked off again at a bus station, to wait until 6am for another bus to the ferry. shea and kris somehow managed to contort their bodies to sleep on some hard wooden benches, and lawrence and i had a beer and played some shithead to bide the time. there are certainly worse ways to kill 2 hours time (like sleeping on a hard wooden bench, or on mats on the concrete, like the others).

our bus came, and again - all cozied in just to drive 10 minutes to the ferry. holy god, the sitting area of the ferry was just rows and rows of hard plastic seats, and i'm not even exaggerating this time when i tell you that room had to be about 11 degrees C. it was so frigging freezing, we were piling on clothes and sharing sleeping sheets - trying to get just a couple hours more sleep. finally, hypothermia set in and we all fell asleep for about an hour anyway. when we woke up, we went above deck (where every other single person was) to a beautiful, sunny day on the ocean, with ko tao in the distance. fan-tastic.

so, here we are. the boys had already booked their diving schools and accommodations, so we hopped in and i booked a couple of dives as well, so we're all staying at the same place. yesterday we just lounged on the wooden decks and tanned, swam in the ocean, chilled out. it was incredible - it's definitely tasha's happy place to be by the ocean. or any water, for that matter. but ko tao hasn't changed as drastically as i had feared - it's still a funky, laid back place with awesome people.

shea bought herself some poi in bangkok- she's becoming a regular little hippie, it's fantastic. we played around with those on the beach during sunset, and again last night -i told shea that i'm betting by this time next year she'll be in dreads at shambala raving with her glow stick pois and her adopted cambodian children. you never know - stranger things have happened. believe me.

we had a wicked BBQ last night, shea and i shared some marlin and some squid - i took a little video - i trust these computers more so i may upload some photos if i get some time - but between the beach, the ocean, the poi, the diving, the boys and the sunshine - i don't plan on being online much in the next few days - i fly back up to bangkok n the 14th (sniff sniff) and back to the real world on the 15th. unless i happen to get malaria, or dengue fever...yeah. maybe - and i have to stay in thailand for a month or so to recover...

hmmm.

but yes, our resort here is great - we have little bungalows and a fantastic beach bar where this guy was playing with his fire pois last night, lawrence was playing his mandolin, someone always had his little bongo and we just relaxed and prepared for our next few days of being under the sea. you know, under the sea - where darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!

xo
tasha.