Ko Pah Ngan, Thailand

So here we are on the night of the huge beach party. There have been 'warm up' parties the last couple of nights (pretty big in themselves) but they say tonight is craziness. We are sitting in a bar watching 'Simpson's' episodes (Chris is in heaven) before heading to the beach. They have these drinks called 'buckets' here in Thailand, and which are extremely popular on this island. A bucket is a combination of a flask worth of some kind of alcohol (whiskey, rum, vodka, whatever), and a soda (which could be coke, sprite or something of the sort). The never changing ingredient is the Thai version of 'Red Bull.' And they serve them, as it sounds, in a small beach sand pail. Potent stuff. Notice picture. Also you will notice the picture of Brent, our Canadian friend diving through the 'ring of fire', 'let 'er rip.' During which he dislocated his shoulder. And the picture of Chris' new 'faux hawk' courtesy of Dana...she's still working on Lily's hair.

We rented motorbikes today. Quite an adventure. Lily ran into another bike (don't worry, they were stopped and no harm done), and I ended up with a nice burn on my leg from the exhaust pipe while Chris was trying to get down this slick downhill. We visited this waterfall that until we were told that we were looking at the falls, we thought was just a little river. But they called them falls.

Well, the episode is over and I think that everyone is going to motivate down to the beach. Must get going!

The pics are from the night before...one of the pre-parties that were about the same as the actual full moon extravaganza. And the 3rd picture is of Chris's new hair cut care of Dana...Mark, be scared!...I'm taking over your clientele!