Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa Cha-am

... swimming... except there are jellyfishies everywhere, in the water and washed up on shore. Not very inviting nor comforting. There is one really annoying drawback to this place: there is a vendor every 30 seconds offering their goods, selling everything from counterfeit Izod polo shirts to cigarette lighters to silk bedspreads. <br><br>We were very far from the town of Hua Hin itself so there isn't much of a choice for dining ...

... to make them as it took for them to destroy them. I loved watching how each individual animal would find its own way of getting the parcel open, some ripping and tearing, others carefully unpicking the vine, and others biting the whole thing in half. Tomorrow a few of the volunteers, Helen, Sandra and Gaynor, are leaving, so we had a few drinks together tonight. We played lots of drinking games which ended quite badly for me when I had to drink the hideous ...

... they would explode......it really was the most fierce thunder we have ever heard. However 20 minutes later it was a nice evening and hot and sticky again. After our meal we went to the hotel Lounge bar with one other family ( Granddad and 2 granddaughters ). We danced the night away with the Piano Man who played all our requests providing they were Elvis numbers as this was his Elvis night. We were also treated ...

... fun- last night we got to do Trivia Night. It was trivia on pictures of the animals (what their names were, what species they were, and if they're native to Thailand), round 2 was general Wildlife Friends Foundation of Thailand trivia, round 3 was specific to the Wildlife volunteering (what I do), round 4 was specific to the Elephant volunteering (what I do not do), and round 5 was general trivia (what year did the Berlin wall come down ...

In chronological order: 1. On Tuesday night I went out. I took a center taxi with two other girls (Liz, 26, from England and Bianca, 29, from England) and we went to Cha Am. We had PIZZA, which was fun, after almost a week of Thai food, and then shopped for little necessaries at 7-11, then had drinks and played pool. The bathrooms in the restaurant and bar were so clean (unlike the sanctuary), oh my, I loved them. The food was good and it ...

... course! Although in this case it's a Tesco Lotus which subsequently we've seen all over Thailand. After grabbing a few bits we drove a couple of hundred yards down the road to a little veggie cafe that Dada knew. Using the excuse that there wasn't enough room - which there wasn't! - Debbie, Chelsea, Angie and I sneaked back down to Tesco to buy buckets and spades for the kids (and a snorkel for me) and possibly, quite by accident you understand, er... fell ...

... for thousands of baht but you will need a little bit of luck just to buy luck because demand exceeds supply at the moment by an order of magnitude. There is no better business than religion these days in Thailand and it has gotten the intellectuals to wonder whether the Jatukam is religion, superstition or scam, although one may argue that there is little that separates these three seemingly diverse areas of human endeavor. Soidog Thailand

... ple*s*nt *bout tr*velling *round Chin* but over*ll, the good things f*r outweigh the b*d. Hong Kong Although technic*lly p*rt of Chin*, Hong Kong seems to be * world *w*y. It is Modern, convenient, fl*shy, westernised, the english l*ngu*ge is understood re*son*bly well *nd the people h*ve m*nners (something you dont see on the m*inl*nd). Being in HK i h*d the ch*nce to meet up with my friend, Christin*, who now lives in HK. Th*nks for the fun times d ...

... for her. He is now putty in her hands. The power roles are exactly in reverse. Even his financial power is gone for his life savings are now at her disposal. She asks, he gives, and he gives happily, just happy to have her and her love. I have seen this story go through from beginning to end in different versions many times in Thailand. No matter how confidently you tell yourself you are not going to fall in love, that this is just an economic arrangement, that it is ...

... it to midnight. Somehow we caught a second wind and made it to 2004 while still awake. (These 6 a.m. mornings make midnight a challenge--even for me. More meaningful for me, though, were the events of earlier in the day...I've had a soft spot for Flip the pig, who is half-paralyzed, since I met her. I've thought her enclosure/general environment needed a serious upgrade--she was lying on a bed of dirt that had settled so much that it was a ...