Post moon escapades

For the rest of my birthday, after a brief nap 10am to 12pm I went for a splash in the water before having a lazy day in the common area. I had a bit of a chat with mum, dad and Makoto which was really nice.

Monica and I then walked to the supermarket. And that was it!

The next day -after a decent sleep- Monica Mandy and I went into Thongsala to go to the shops. We went around the indoor market and I found a shirt that I wanted. We looked for the shop owner. Nowhere to be found. We went to the stalls either side of it, no one wanted to help us spend money... How odd!

Mandy then shouted "is anyone here? Does anyone want some money for this?...... No? Ok then." She then asked the shop keeper next door if we could pay her. She said no. She then said "ok, I'm stealing this shirt. This shirt is being taken. Will anyone come to take some money?...... No?" She then put it in her bag and we slowly walked off with Mandy still shouting "I'm stealing at the moment, I'm stealing this shirt." We then walked from the market and up the road about 300m. Only then did the lady from the next door stall run after us and drag us back to the marketplace.

Once we were back a huge group of people gathered around us shouting at us. Calling us thieves and other -I'd imagine- nasty names in Thai. We tried to pay a guy who was now standing in the stall but he was completely bewildered looking and wouldn't take anything. Then slowly, everyone left to get on with their business. Leaving us, again, completely alone in a stall with at shirt and no one to pay!

This time we just left the shirt!

That evening we hopped into the back of a pickup truck the Canadian guys were renting and drove over to Haad Rin for dinner. The back of a pickup on a summers evening is definitely the way to travel. Although it was a bit of fun when Charlie started sliding around every corner.

We had a lovely meal sat out on the sand, under the stars on the sand with the sea lapping nearby.