Phuket

We took a boat to Phuket and thankfully it was short, not an overnighter and not that bad.

Kris has traveled to Phuket a few times so he kind of led the way for us. We decided to stay in Patong (which I knew nothing about)- it is the main beach from my understanding.

Nick had to fly home the next day, so we had one night out with him- and we had to make it a great send off for him! We walked the strip of bars; there are a plethora of bars on this strip. They close the street to traffic at night and the sidewalks are lined with bars. The bars are open in the front and you can just wander from bar to bar. Off this block are a few side streets with more bars that line them, as well as having bars in the middle strip of the block. Basically it is three strips of bars per little alleyway. They are called Soi's.

About this area... there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people. You get harassed every two steps to purchase cigarettes, pictures with monkey's (I got one taken- I just wanted to hold the cute thing!) or Iguana's, ridiculous hats, stupid souvenirs or sex. Yep... prostitutes galore! I have never seen so many prostitutes in all of my life... it was crazy!

We got approached to go to a ping pong show... of course we went! This was no Forrest Gump champion ping pong player... this was an older Thai woman popping them out of a certain hole. She also shoved a peeled banana in and shot it out. I'll never forget the sound that made, and I don't care to explain it! Other impressive acts - she blew out candles, played a horn and wrote a note... all with her you know what. Some people we met couldn't believe we went to the show (which was a one drink minimum per set- we only stayed one set), but I can't believe anyone wouldn't go to this show! Now I am not saying I agree with this career choice, but I must say I am super impressed with her skills and wonder how she trained or how long it took her to learn these party tricks! Talk about a conversation starter... The funnything though was that she was not this cute little thing, she was ugly and not on the young side!

Another thing about these bars... they have thai bar maid's and you can play them in connect 4. You can't win... they are unbelievable at the game.

We started the night there and then went to Tiger bar. It is a bigger club and we found a corner and worked up a good sweat dancing. Numa Numa came on and Nick and I went nuts. I got all cheery because it made me think of Brent, P and Karen... I wished you guys had been there!

After Tiger bar we went to Dragon Bar. It was not full at all, but it did have a stage and cat walk with some dancers... no nudity though, they were just dancing in these ridiculously skimpy threads they called outfits. As I said before, Kris was really leading the way. This was his favorite hang out and it showed because we got amazing treatment! There was Mama San... who is really a he, but I'll show respect and say she. She is in charge of the dancers and their actions and wages after their dancing. She sent a few up to us, to get our drinks when we needed more and to dance with us. She had two of them take Danielle and I by hand, down to the stage to dance! She then sent them all down to us... we were dancing with hookers on stage!!!! The night was beyond surreal!

We went back up to the balcony area and danced up there, with the prosties of course. We were battling moves and I was trying to take some notes! kidding... I do have to mention that they were in awe over my breasts. They kept at looking and pointing at them and giggling... then the pointing became touching... I guess they hadn't seen anything like them before. I feel like my story can go off into a very crazy direction here... but nope, not only are prostitutes not for me, but girls aren't either. And this is why I have to say I wasn't that keen on Patong. While I had a blast there, particularly this first night... it was sleazy, and I wanted to dance with hot guys, not female hookers or the men that hang around them!

There are also lady boys, as they call them, all over the place. The alleyway to our hotel was the lady boy hooker spot... it was pretty funny!

This was one of the cazier experiences on this trip... but what a memorable lsat night to Nick's big trip... he went home to Canada after this one.