koh tao

our last day in bkk we went to the floating market which was veryyyyyyyyy cool but pretty touristy. all the little vendors line up along each side of the river and as ur paddle boat floats down they each pull u in with hear weird little hooks that attach onto ur boat. once u pass hrough the vendors though the place is amazing, all these little houses are built over the river and along it. after he paddle boat we had a chance to walk around the market a bit before going on a motor boat. we saw this guy holding this massiveboa snake at the beginning and we knew we wanted to be a part of that. so we bargained wig grid guy to let us hold his creature. it was pretty cool and not nearly as gross as you'd expect. we took tons of pics but will upload later. after the market we went back to the city and met amber and Hannah for lunch on khoasan road but hen we has to jet cause we had a bus to take at 6. the bus was pretty funny, supposed to leave at 6 but left at after 7 andwas an overnight type thing but at 3amthedriver woke us unto get off and get on some other thing that took us to chumphon ( a connector town to the islands). we were pretty tired, after that bus (which was only 30 min) we had to wait at the dock till 7 whenour boat left for koh tao. so we are now on koh Tao which is amaaaaaaazinggggg. we are staying at this place called coral grand resort and it is on sairee beach which runs up along most of the western side of the sIsland, but he acual island is very small. we re taking scuba lessons starting today then we get 4 open water dives. after it will give us our certification for diving up to 18 meters. most of the plats here give u accommodation when u book a dive course so we will be in this place for probably 5 or 6 Nights even though our course is only 3 days ( we cut a deal to give us free accompdation for a couple days following the course). we went to a bar called the lotus last night ( thanks b!) and it was very fun. there were these insane fire shows going on for a few hours, it was wild. anyways we are about to head to our scuba session, we will upload pictures later on! xoxo