Last days in Phuket and the arrival Of Emirrrrrrrrry

So a lot has happened in the past week since we blogged last with the most important thing being the arrival of our good friend Emily Madden-Ricker from Amsterdam. Emily is our good friend from Denver and I must say she was quite the trooper. She basically slept 3 hours in 3 days and managed to stay up her entire first day in Phuket and avoid jet lag. I picked her up from the airport at 10 AM and since Drew had a mild case of food poisoning he didn't partake in the activities. Emily brought the rain with her from Amsterdam but it cleared up enough for her us to show her Patong and Karon Beach, Hang out at our pool and show her all of our local favorite restaurants and she fit right in. Here are some photos with captions of our time together so far.

This is Emily and I having a beer on Bang La road. It was some holiday, they kept saying New Years and it was more crowded than usual.

Emily is not sweating here, its either wet from rain or just appears that way.

Drew and Emily getting dessert.

This picture is from Maya Bay on Phi Phi Lei Island which is a short trip from Phuket. The tour itself was nothing to rave about but the point of the trip was to show Emily the famous Phi Phi Islands and Drew and I had been before on a previous trip and the beauty did not disappoint.

Emily and Drew in front of the Crystal Blue water.

This is the typical scenery in Phi Phi

Emily and I.

Drew and I swimming in the bay.

Panoramic view of Maya Bay.

Drew getting artistic.

This is Emily's best friend. She sat next to Emily and had no sense of space and literally if she wasn't touching Emily would move closer to do so.

Snorkeling on Phi Phi

Drew doing his impression of a mermaid.

The water is very shallow in Phi Phi so I decided to do a handstand. I am actually about 100 meters out into the water and its still only "wrist deep."

We ended the day on Khai Island which would have been awesome except for how touristy it was.

Well we really ended the day burying Emily. A few things about the tour; The boats drive as fast as they can through 1-2 meter waves and as I said there is no sense of space so in a big ocean the boats drive about 15 to 20 feet apart which makes no sense to us. We just never looked out on the boat as it was too scary, at one point we were so close to the boat in front of us that I got sprayed by the boat in front of us and was drenched. Here is a picture of that.

Emily was supposed to guest blog this post but she was lagging so I did it. The next post hopefully will be about Emily's thoughts on Patong and Bangkok as well as our ventures in Vietnam which is where we are now. So far we are very pleasantly surprised with Ho Chi Minh City.