April 29, 2015

It’s hard to believe that this is our last day in Asia.  Time has gone by too quickly.  The past 2 months have flown by, but now it’s time to start our journey in Africa.

We had a great last day here in Thailand.  We left Krabi for Phuket since we will be flying out of here.  We figured it would be better to get to Phuket a day early just in case we ran into any issues getting here.  The busride was uneventful, but once we got to the airport (the drop off point for the bus), the day got a little worse.  We were supposed to have a hotel shuttle pick us up, but it wasn’t there.  After an hour and two phone calls, they told us that the shuttle would cost 700 Baht (about $25).  We thought this was pretty insane since the hotel was only about 2 km away.  We decided to walk to the hotel which would have been fine if we didn’t need to walk around the ENTIRE airport!  The walk ended up being about 11 km and it was insanely HOT!  Luckily, a very nice family saw us walking down the road and picked us up about halfway through the walk.  They took us to the hotel and dropped us off…we were very thankful!

After that eventful morning, it turned out that Phuket was awesome!  We stayed at a nice hotel that had a full water park on the grounds, so Hayden was in heaven.  He was even tall enough to ride all of the slides, so he was pretty excited.  As soon as we got in, we spent an hour or so at the water park before going back to get ready for dinner.  They had a surf and turf buffet, so Adam was in seafood heaven.  I’m pretty sure there is now a shortage of lobster in Phuket!  lol

Seafood dinner!

Surf and turf for Hayden

The hotel was right on the beach, which was great.  We watched the sunset and it was beautiful!

Sunset in Phuket

Sunset over the pool

Sunset in Phuket

After another great day at the waterpark, we walked along the beach back to the airport.  This was the shortcut that we should have taken in the first place!  It only took us about 30 minutes to walk from the hotel to the airport and saved ourselves $25.  🙂

Nice walk to the airport

Now it’s off to Africa to spend a few days in Cape Town before we leave on our 6 week safari through South and Eastern Africa!!!  So exciting!!!