Full moon party...craziness!

We made it through the full moon party with minor injuries and hangovers. I have never seen anything like this. If you want a party, the full moon party is where you should go. The whole beach was covered with people. All the bars had different kinds of music and everyone was just enjoying themselves. People smiling everywhere and having the time of their lives. I would guess that there were about 8,000-10,000 people on the beach all night long. The big drink in Thailand is "buckets" and they are lethal! It's a small bucket with a pint of Thai whiskey, a can of Coke, and some red bull. So, many people can share one bucket usually...Tanya seems to gulp one down by herself and still walk (kinda!). The main part and my favorite is when the sun rose. I stood on my chair and looked around, there were still so many people partying away. I went back to my room about 10am and people were still up and about. When I finally made it out of bed at around 7pm, I went to the beach and it was so dead compared to what took place just 12 hours before. The beach was actually clean, so the clean up crew must have been hard at work. A few people were still acting a little strange, so I'm guessing they have been up since. One woman was screaming at the moon while walking down the beach...maybe she took some bad acid or something!? Now, most the poeple left the island and it is chilled out again. We moved places so we can be closer to the beach. It's a little shack with a bed, but it will do!

I forgot to write about our visa run to Myanmar (Bhurma) when we were in Chiang Mai. We needed to get our visas re-newed because our 30 days was going to expire shortly. We went on a day trip to visit the Golden Triangle, where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar all meet and that was the big Opium trading place back in the day. After we stepped into Myanmar, we went right back into Thailand and continued our trip. So, I have the Myanmar stamp, but never really got to see it. On the way back to Chiang Mai, we stopped at some villages and the women were so cool. Tanya and I sat with them while our group walked around. Their teeth were brown and red from bettle nuts that the chew on all day. They gave us some bettle nut to chew on and we had to spit out like we were chewing tobacco. The spit was red and when we had a good one they would all clap and cheer for us! It was so cute and our teeth and tongues were red and orange for a bit after. It was a good memory. So that's about it. I'm looking forward to getting my swimming suit on and getting a raft to laze my day away on the water today!

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