Thailand Day 4 - Back to Bangkok and to Koh Samet (Better late then never)

Ok, so I am finally going to finish these Thailand blogs, because I am so behind.

On day 4, we woke up at 5:45 am to check out and pick up our breakfast boxes so that we could get to the airport on time. The hotel shuttle then took us to the airport where we were able to check in and fly to Bangkok with no problems, we even arrived in Bangkok 15 minutes early. Unfortunately, we had to wait almost an hour for our luggage to finish being loaded on to the belt, but oh well.

We made our way without incident to the airport shuttle, which took us to the bus terminal where we were able to hop on the 2 1/2 hour bus to Rayong. We managed to avoid the illegal taxis and we made our way to a small street vendor where we picked two random soups. One was a duck and giblet soup, and the other was a fish ball soup. They were pretty good, but were interesting at the same time.

After eating, we had to pay a random "taxi" (we are pretty sure it was illegal... oh well) to take us to the Pier for our resort, but he got us there with no problems. We had to wait an hour for the Resort boat, but we spent the time wandering the piers, and just generally hanging out.

When we finally got on the boat, the water was so rough. We were convinced we were going to capsize twice, because the boat was pretty close to being half out of the water. The driver seemed to know what we was doing though, and we made it safely to our resort, where we checked in and we were given blue margaritas as our welcome drinks. Our room was beautiful, with raised floors, cathedral ceilings, and our bed covered with flowers and towels shaped like hearts. It was so nice.

We dumped our bags, took a quick shower and headed down to the open, beach-front restaurant to grab some happy-hour strawberry daiquiris and take a swim in the ocean. After a quick dip, we decided to have dinner. I ordered fried sea bass with vegetables, and Cody ordered a spicy papaya salad with shrimp and pork . We also ordered sticky rice and I ordered a yummy happy hour Mojito (I love Mojitos).

After dinner, we went for a walk and then we decided to go swimming in the pool for an hour. After swimming, we got dressed and then had dessert of fried pineapple and banana with ice cream, and then we headed off to bed for the night.