Got up, not sure when. During the course of the day, I was checking the accomodations on Koh Phangan. I'm concerned about going to Koh Phangan on the day of the full moon party and not getting accomodations! After doing some quick searching, there are literally hundreds of guest houses and resorts on the beaches near the full moon party beach, and tons more a little further afield. I'm sure we'll find something. I've decided I won't go to Koh Phangan today, but Erin and I will just go there tomorrow and we'll wing it!
Later in the day, Courtney, Shabana and I beached it. Chris, Rob and Erin are on the last day of their PADI Open Water course.
After diving, Erin came to the beach, and we decided to buy tickets to Koh Phangan for tomorrow.
At about 6:00, we all went to Viking Divers for a celebratory beer for Erin, Rob and Chris for graduation from the diving course. We all then went to a nice restaurant.
We also found out tonight that the full moon party has been delayed to Feb. 24 because of elections on Koh Phangan! That's great, it gives Erin and I little more breathing room to find accomodations before the big party!
After supper, Tahnie and Sterling and Erin and me walked around. We were going to watch the fire show and tourist muay thai boxing at the Reggae Bar ("beat up your friend in a boxing ring and get free buckets!"), but everything is closed down. It must be a Buddhist holiday today, hardly anything is open. We ended up partying with One, our cliff jumping guide and a bunch of other locals. We drank outside of One's office on the streets, then moved to a bar that was open at the very end of the beach. Long night, and a lot of fun, the locals are very funny and friendly.
As we were all partying, Tahnie and Sterling really, really wanted us to stay an extra day, and Erin wanted to as well. So tomorrow morning, I'll try to get our tickets changed to leave the following day, Feb. 23.
As we were partying at the beach bar, Tahnie needed to go pee. She had no desire to use the bars toilets, so she found a nice park area and squatted and did her thing. Later in the evening, Sterling pointed out that the park area where she did it was a tsunami memorial site! Tahnie felt soooo bad for peeing on their memorial.
Walk to the beach, there are bats in the streets on Koh Phi Phi. Tahnie is terrified of bats, she was screaming and ducking the whole way there, with everyone else laughing at her.
I finally went back to my room at 4:00am.
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