Thailand Day 6 - Back to Bangkok

Our last day on Koh Samet, we woke up pretty early to have breakfast and get packed so that we would have time to swim and relax. Even though I was still a little afraid of stepping on another Sea Urchin, Cody and I went back in the ocean, but we made sure not to go too deep, because neither he or I wanted a repeat of the day before.

At 12:30 we headed out to the boat, and as we waited to leav, we watched a swarm of small fish crowd the boat and eat food that some people were throwing off the boat for them. We also watched a small Pike swim around the fish, presumably trying to find any small stragglers to eat. Cody was relieved to have the ride back be less scary, but the boat was still rocking a lot more than either of us were used to.

When we arrived back at the pier, we debated on getting a cab back to the bus terminal so that we could catch the bus back to Bangkok, but the hotel told us it would only be 1800 baht, or $53.50 to have a cab take us back to Bangkok. Even though that's quite a bit of money for Thailand, that's cheap for a 2 hour cab in Korea, and ridiculously cheap for a cab in the US, so we decided to splurge and ride in comfort (instead of having to closely watch our bags the whole time on the bus) all the way back to Bangkok and to our hotel. It was a little annoying because our cab driver, Mr. Joe, kept bothering us about booking him for a tour of Bangkok, even giving us all of his brochures of places he would take us. It was pretty easy to say no though, especially since we only had one more day in Thailand, and so we just kept saying no, and when he gave up for awhile, we took a long nap.

Mr. Jo did get us to our hotel in good time, and so we checked in and changed clothes, and then we headed out to take the subway and then sky train to a local shopping area to eat and then go to a Hard Rock Cafe to try and get Bangkok drumsticks for Adam. We ended up eating at McDonald's, because we want to try McDonald's in every country we go to to see what the differences were. The main differences in Thailand McDonald's is that they have double fish sandwiches, and double Big Macs, but nothing really special. After eating, we headed to an internet cafe for a little while, and then went to the Hard Rock Cafe, but our luck hasn't been so great for drumsticks, and they were sold out. We also went to try to find a replacement camera lens cap, but we couldn't find one in the one camera store we were able to locate.

After we gave up on the lens cap, we headed back to the hotel to swim in their pretty pool with a magnolia tree planted in the middle, and a small waterfall running along one side. We also ordered a yummy Zombie drink and a Planter's Punch. After we had our fill of the pool, we headed over to the hotel hottub to soak and relax.

After our soak, we headed back to our room and decided to order room service for the first time. We ordered yummy Asparagus and Portabello mushrooms in oyster sauce and chicken rice baked in a Pineapple. It was all really delicious.