SLEEPY LITTLE BAN PHE

We're settling into our little post here in Ban Phe.

Katie is now half way through her TESOL (teaching english as a second to other languages) course and has just passed her final grammar/phonology exam. Her classes are being held in a Buddhist Temple where saffron-robed monks live and go about their daily chores amongst the English-teaching foreigners. It's a strange and exciting co-existence, and everybody seems to get along. Travis spends his days as he pleases: cruising around town on his motocycle picking up coconuts and exotic fruits, snorkeling in the bathtub waters of the Gulf of Thailand, editing photos on his brand new laptop, and making lunches for his studious wife when she comes home from school.

We also spent the past two weekends doing a little island-hopping. First to the nearby Koh Samed for some stunning white sand beaches that squeeked under our feet. And second to the farther away and much smaller island of Koh Larn, for some less than spectacular snorkelling amongst dieing coral and speedy jet skiis loaded with tourists. How dare everyone else have the same weekend idea we did! Ah well, another weekend in paradise. PS- Believe it or not, for the two people who never EVER burn, we've both become lobsters.