thailand blog

8/5/2015

Today has been such a crazy day! To start off, we had our flight from Chiang Mai to Krabi. About two hours. I mentioned we stayed the night at the airport before our flight. Yeah, longest night ever! It was freezing cold & we were curled up across chairs trying to get some shut eye. Unsuccessful. Nights at the airport are always bad news. When we got to Krabi we took a shuttle to the boat dock where we had to wait out a storm. A huge & sudden storm blew in from out of nowhere. It was down pouring. We waited at a restaurant for it to pass. Finally, about an hour & a half later it was "calm" enough to go. But not really. It was still rainy & the waves were huge, but they said it was okay. I was seriously terrified. We walked out in the water thigh deep to our boat in the rain. People had their suitcases & all. It was kinda hilarious. Inside I was just like "WHAT EVEN IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!?" The whole ride over I was so terrified inside. I'm hesitant to send the videos of it because it doesn't do it justice, but trust me, it was so intense. The waves were huge & we were in the middle of the ocean. All I could think was how if anything goes wrong were all gonna drown in this storm. I had to stop looking at the guide controlling the boat because I was trying to read him the whole time. Seeing if he was calm or concerned. It didn't help, only made me freak out more because he usually looked concerned. I think that was just his face though. Lol. The boat ride was about 20 minutes, we finally made it to rai lay island & it is so beautiful! The south is like a totally different country. I feel like I'm on a tropical vacation now! It's so fun! Since we didn't get any sleep last night, when we first got to our room we passed out for like 4 hours & I'm still tired. I'll get some good sleep tonight so that we can party hard tomorrow!