After Sunset..

Last Sunset..

So, today is the last day I'm writing this blog.. Since this is a travel blog, there's no point to keep on writing after coming back home. Well, I'm at home now and I'm writing, but I just wanted to let everyone know there won't be more texts. It has been nice to write this blog and even nicer to go through all the things I've been writing about. I enjoyed (almost) every moment of these holidays and I would love to visit KhaoLak again.. Hope one day I can..:)

Yesterday I was way too tired to write anything.. The bus came to take us from hotel at 4:15.. in the morning. We thought it would come at 3am, so we woke up at 2 and went to the reception at 2:45. There we had breakfast.. We both got boxes with a sandwich, a banana, a mandarin.. and milk.:D Then the bus came and we drove to the airport.. By the way, the bus was kind of high, much higher than buses in Finland. Maybe like those in England, but with on floor.;o At the airport we had to wait..and wait..and wait.. and after all the waiting, and lil bit of shopping, we finally got into the plane. I'm not sure it's something to be happy about.. It's not so great to sit in the plane for 13 hours. This time the travel lasted longer, because we had to land in Sweden (Arlanda airport in Stockholm) first, even though we first flew almost over Helsinki. I don't understand what's the point of that.. Anyways, we stayed in Stockholm for one hour, not getting out of the plane while waiting.. Luckily it didn't take more than 45minutes to arrive in Finland, I mean from Sweden.^^ But after the flight, we had to continue our travel buy car.. An hour and half to reach home. Then it was time to give all the souvenirs to the family.. To go to sauna.. I kind of missed it after two weeks not going there.:D And when I finally went to sleep after midnight, I was feeling really strange, like drunk, because I was soooo tired. Anyways, this morning I woke up at 8 o'clock, because I had to go to school to get some papers that I should send to some universities..:P

However.. I would like to thank everyone reading this blog. I know it's maybe lil bit boring, but I'm glad if you read it anyways.:D Thanks to all the super nice people in Thailand also, from you I got lots of good memories, a new attitude towards life and people.. and a big smile on my face.:) And..last but not least.. Thanks to my Mom, who took me for this trip, I could never had a better present.. I will always remember this travel, because memories are something no one can take away from me.. Thailand, I'll be back!:D Thank you!

Day Sixteen - The Sunset

As the name of this blog is Thai Sunrise, I think it's a good way to finish with a sunset.. I can't believe it's the last day of our holidays already, time has been flying..;o

Today I've been taking thousands (at least almost) pictures and telling silent goodbyes to everyone and everything here.. KhaoLak, our hotel KhaoLak Resort, all the people here, nice weather and hotness, the sea (Andaman Sea), lizards, crabs, monkeys, elephants, birds, fishes..also jellyfishes.xP Trees.. Flowers.. My new friends.. I will miss them all, and many other things too.. :( This place feels like home already, I don't know why, it never happened on our earlier travels..

Of course I'm also happy to go home.. To see my family.. My boyfriend.. :) To sleep in my own bed.. To feel cold again and see people who are not smiling.. xP Eheh.. Now it's easier to tell about the things I will miss after leaving, than the things I've missed while being here.. :D

Anyways, I think I'll still write something when we're back in Finland, just to finish this blog.. Now it's time to go to sleep, even though it's only 8 o'clock.. We have to wake up at 2am.^^' So.. Goodnite!:)

Day Thirteen – And Day Twelve

Hmm.. It seems like I'm always skipping days, I mean about writing this blog. :D
Yesterday I can explain by telling it was really bad weather in the afternoon and we came back to hotel quite late.. Due to some problems I can't talk about.. Or even think. But let's forget that.^^
Yesterday in the afternoon, before it started raining, we visited the hotel where Mom was staying last year.. I can't describe it, it was so.. luxurious. Maybe too much. I prefer this hotel.;) Anyways, we spent there couple of hours and then came back to hotel to wait for the rain to end..
In the evening we went to the city center, once again, walked there, talked to some people and they invited us to their restaurant.. So we had dinner and couple of beers there and came back to hotel.. And that's where the problems started.. Whatever happened is a secret. xP After all we went to sleep.. at midnight.^^'

This morning, after breakfast, I went alone to the city center to change some money.. Got also the internet card on the way coming back.. After that I went to the pool, Mom was waiting for me there.. But then it started raining, so we had to come to our room. When the rain finished, we.. Can you guess what we did? Went to the city center, of course!xD There we bought something to drink tomorrow and had “dinner” (at 5pm) in one of our favourite restaurants.. Viking. :) Tomorrow I think we're going to Phukhaolak Restaurant.. And the day after again to Viking.:D Because on Tuesday we're not going to city center anymore, because we have to pack and get ready for leaving..:(

I'll try to write something tomorrow..:D

Day Ten – Under the Thai Sun

Today's been a very nice day.. We've been relaxing and sunbathing as always.. But we also went to take my dress from the tailor, finally. I love it! Couldn't get better dress in Finland, this one is perfect!:) Here's a picture too (didn't want to take a picture of the dress on me, because I'm so red)..

This time we were back to hotel early, at 8 o'clock. Usually we don't have dinner so early, because it's so hot when the sun is still there.. It's little bit ”colder” when it's dark. Today we had dinner at Phukeolak Restaurant, it's Mom's favourite, because she has been there also last year and she knows all the waiters. Today also the owner of the restaurant came to greet us when we were leaving. :) After dinner we had time to have drinks in our hotel's pool restaurant and show the people there some photos of Finnish winter.:D

Now we're watching tv, even though we don't understand a thing.xD I'll write more tomorrow. :)

Day Seven – Massage, very good price :D

Today it's our 7th day in Khaolak, which means we have 10 more days.. It's really nice to be here, this place is almost like my own personal paradise.. I'm telling ”almost” because something's missing.. Everything would be just perfect, if I had all my loved ones here.. My boyfriend, family, friends.. I know it's selfish to wish they're all here, maybe some of them wouldn't like to be here.:D I don't know who wouldn't, because it's nice, warm and beautiful, people are so nice too and everything's so.. amazing.:) Maybe it's the moon making me mad, it seems like it's fullmoon out there.. Is it?xP

Today, after breakfast and couple of hours of sunbathing, we were walking on the beach, but not swimming because of the huge waves.. Anyways, there we saw a little Thai Massage place (they're everywhere) and decided to finally try it.. It lasted an hour and cost about 7 euros, which is super cheap for a full body massage.. First I thought I can't stay there for one hour, but it really didn't feel so long time.. And the feeling after it was something I can't explain.. I felt I could fly.:D

At five o'clock we headed to the city center to a tailor who's making me a dress for my party (for finally finishing high school), I had to try the dress so he can be sure it fits.. It will be ready on Tuesday, then I'll take a picture of it and upload it here. :)

Now I have to stop writing, there's something wrong with my eyes, I can't see a word. ö.Ö Hope to see something tomorrow.:D I'm sorry for any mistakes, I can't see anything..

Day One – Flying Vampires

           

Our plane

If you're reading this, I've probably got a chance to use the wireless connection of our hotel..

Of course I have, how else could I post this?

Well, first it seemed like there's no connection at all in our room.. or in our bungalow (cause that's what it is.) Then, when I had already lost my hope, we found a place to buy a card to use hotel's connection on my laptop.. Well, it's not free.  The longer you use it, the more you pay.. Of course. ^^

So, my plan is this: First I'm writing whatever I want to say, for example on Word.. And only after that I'll turn on the connection and copy-paste everything on the blog. :D

And why did I write ”flying vampires”? Because I woke up yesterday at 9am Finnish time.. Then waited at the airport till 14:45.. In a great lounge, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm completely gone.:D And  it took 10 hours to get here in Thailand.. Plus one hour and a half in a bus coming to the hotel.. And when we finally arrived, I noticed that my eyes were completely red (that's explains the word ”vampire”) and thought it will pass with couple of hours of sleep..

But I didn't have time for those hours of sleep, neither minutes. Instead we went to walk around, to greet the sun and swim a little bit.. Then we had just a little break in our room before walking to Khao Lak city center, which is about one kilometer from here.. And since it was one o'clock in the afternoon, it was probably the hottest time of the day..

In a way or another we finally arrived to the city center.. I was kind of starving and I thought we'd go for lunch.. But instead we went in some kind of Beauty Saloon and.. here's the result.. 

Who is who?:D

After that we finally headed to a restaurant to have fried noodles with chicken.. and a strawberry shake.:D

After lunch we almost ran back to our bungalow, because it was going to rain.. And when it rains, it REALLY rains. And because of thunder I couldn't use my laptop before.. Now it's barely evening and I think soon I'm going to sleep, even though I took a nap already.. I'm just so tired.:P

Ps: Also my number decided not to work here, so I can only use my other number.. and it's credit is about one euro or something.. Not going to send so many sms to my boyfriend with that, since one sms costs one euro. -.-

Pps: Means that I forgot to tell something else too.. Today I made a new friend.. His name is Mr.Gekko & he likes to spend time in our bathroom.:D 

             

Mr. Gekko, my new friend.x3

So near but yet so far..

Hello people!

I just had the most terrible night in my life! Okay, maybe not the worst but anyways.. At 3am I was still awake.. and I woke up at half past six, feeling bad, I was scared I got sick just before the travel. Luckily that feeling passed with a glass of water and with a couple more hours of sleep.

Now I should still check I've got everything I need, wouldn't be nice to forget something I absolutely can't survive without.. Like this laptop. xP

Now I'm off to Thailand.. I'll write also there.. Otherwise this blog makes no sense. :D

Nervous? Not really. :)

Sawadee Ka! It means "Hello" in Thai.

In my other blog I told I'm not going to turn it into a travel blog, so I decided to start another one.. So, here goes! As you could probably guess, I'm going to travel to Thailand. I'm leaving there tomorrow with my Mom.. She's kindly taking me there, because I finally (after 4 years) finished my high school. I think it's the last mother&daughter travel, because I'm already 20 and don't know where I'm going to be after this summer.. ^^

As I already told, I'm not nervous before the journey, but of course excited.. How often do you get a chance to go for a 17-days-travel in Thailand? Tomorrow at this time.. Well, I'll be still in the plane, because the travel lasts 11 hours.. How am I going to survive? I'm kidding.. I'm sure it's not too hard.. Or I hope so. :D

Of course I'm going to miss my family.. My friends I wouldn't meet anyways, or so I think, because they are all living so far.. Or at least almost all of them. However, I miss them too. And then, my boyfriend.. He doesn't live in Finland, so usually we can only meet online every evening, except when we're both having holidays and have a chance to meet for real. Anyways, he's the person I'm going to miss the most (no offence to others).. Because of the time difference and the fact that I don't know if there's wireless connection or not.. Anyways I'm taking my laptop with me, so I can try if it works.  :)

Soon I should go to sleep, or at least I should TRY to sleep, because tomorrow's going to be a long day.. I'll write more in Thailand. Comments are welcome. :D