A VERY Small World

A photo of the main pool this morning (usually full of families in the afternoon). Also a photo of the fish pond

 We decided to walk down the beach down towards the National Park which is to located to the west of us. We walked about 1.8 km to get there (according to google maps).

There were not many tourists at the National Park Headquarters, however lots of locals, As we started back we caught up to a couple of tourist women walking our way back towards the townsite. As we walked past them one said “we’re polite eh”. We immediately said that we were Canadian and where were they from? The one said Kelowna and the other said Edmonton. So after stating we were from Fort Saskatchewan the conversation got quite interesting. Long story short, the Edmonton lady (Ashley Moore)  used to work out of the Century 21 office in Fort Sask, and worked with Fran Glenn and Gary Gordon! We are around the other side of the world with hardly any Canadians around and we run into these two. Small world.

They came over here about the same time we did (just before the cold snap) and go home one day before us. Their thinking is similar to ours in that Mexico is a better place to go (and so close to home). They also had the same experience as us regarding airline ticket costs. We expected MUCH lower one way ticket costs here in Asia than the reality.

After putzing  around for a bit we decided to get Thai massages. Wow-so different than Canadian ones and even with a nice tip the cost for each of us was $C14!!

The afternoon was quiet for me. I stayed out on the balcony or in the room while Caro went to swim in the ocean, and afterwards spent time at the pool.

About 4:30 PM it was time for an afternoon snack so we hoofed on over to a small kiosk type food preparation place (not a restaurant as there is no where to sit). We have been to the same place a number of times and find the food excellent. We shared order of Thai pad chicken ($C4) back on our balcony.

The photo below is of the sidewalk tiles. Quite the illusion as they are flat.

On the way to get this food I learned another.lesson. Money exchanger locations give EXTREMELY poor exchange on $1 US bills. For Canadian $20’s we get 25.3 Baht however for $1 US bills we got only 28.5 Baht (whereas $20US bills get about 35 Baht). As I was waiting to get my pittance in Baht a women waiting her turn behind me said that they had found out the same thing about small bills.Lesson learned!

Tonight we went back to our regular area for our supper. I had pad Thai (again!) while Caro had some kind of soup. She wasn”t impressed with her choice but mine was good.

I decided to upload a google photo of our hotel.