Flushing toilet - At almost every place we have been in Thailand, including restaurants and such, every single place has a toilet and then a bucket of water beside with a cup to fill up after you use it. Now that was all fine and dandy for the first few days but its really starting to wear a girl down! For example, you wake up in the middle of the night and you need to use the washroom. Well you do your business, at 4 in the morning, and go to fill the toilet up only to notice that the bucket of toilet water is empty! So now you have to be all noisy and wake your half asleep self up and fill the bucket with water and then proceed to fill the toilet. And to make things that much better you are now wide awake at 4 in the morning from your little bathroom run.
Drinkable water - You don't want to drink any water here unless it comes from a bottle, only of course if you want to catch malaria or typhoid or maybe both. Brushing your teeth is a real chore and you have to waste your precious bottled water on your teeth. I now have developed a way to brush my teeth without any water what so ever, although it does create plenty of extra pasties in your mouth. Just do your business with the toothbrush and then at the end when you would rinse, just suck all the excess toothpaste of the brush and spit. Everyone should actually do this and we all could be a little more green by saving water! Try it out, I dare ya.
My bed! - Its always a little exciting moving to a new hostel or hotel because there is always that possibility you can get a super comfy bed or who will luck out between Aspen and I and score the better bed. Its safe to say that throughout the trip so far we haven't had too many terrible beds. Actually the worst one would have to be one of the recent places we stayed at. It was a dorm style room that we got to stay for free at because it was the company that we were diving through. There were 3 bunk beds in this room and I managed to get stuck with the top bunk. Normally I don't mind the top bunk either, but because hot air rises and its already hot as hell here I think I sweated off ten pounds there. And the bunk bed didn't feel so sturdy so everytime I would turn I would shake the entire bed and make enough noise to wake my fellow room mates. Once again this made bathroom runs in the middle of the night super fun. I only managed to fall of the bunk bed a few times and bruise my elbows minimally. At one point in the middle of the night I woke up and I was facing a dude who was just sleeping in his tidy whities and from then on I made a effort to always face the wall.
My dog - There are the cutest dogs hanging around everywhere we have been! The only issue is that most of them are infested with a ton of fleas. That means you can't exactly pet them or cuddle them unless you want to catch the friendly little critters too. I'm going to snuggle my dog for a full 24 hours when I get back home! And right here on Koh Tao island they have this adorable beagle running around, I'm certain he is fleas free so I might sneak the buddy on the flight home with me...
A fridge - It's just a great peice of equipment to have at your leisure anytime! Mostly its great when the tempurature rises above 30 and your water goes warm before you have the chance to finish the bottle. Or to store some yummy ice cream treats, which by the way I feel I have been deprived of. It's nice to have a fully stocked fridge back at home as well, with snacks magically waiting all the time for me to munch on. It's great how that works back home.
Ok and yes I miss all you folks back home too, although I might just stay on Koh Tao forever and give you all a reason to come for a nice vacation here and visit me! I can just become a scuba instructor and swim with the fishies and sharks and whales and turtles allllll day. Sound like a good plan? I don't think flights are too expensive here..
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