What I will do for every vacation from now on.

Our next day of adventure brought us bright and early to the Bai Pai cooking school to learn how to cook some classic Thai dishes. It was so fun because it was such an international mix of people to hang out with for the morning. We met our first American, Mark, he had quit his job and was touring Southeast Asia and India. Then there was Gunther and his wife from German; this was their fifth time to Bai Pai and they loved Thai food. We first headed off to the market to see what kind of ingredients we would need. I learned to pick out the right rice, what all of their crazy fruit tasted and looked like. What kind of staple ingredients they used and all of the different curries they had. The even had chocolate curry! We then went to the school and learned how to make Satay chicken, a shrimp salad, cashew nut stir fry, and a sticky rice mango dessert. It was great because we learned how to do it, then made it, and ate it! We all got along marvelously and enjoyed learning something new.
After learning about markets and our new found knowledge of the city from our bike tour, we decided to brave one more market, the Chatuchak market. This market is suppose to be the largest in the world which is why I wanted to see it. We could only make it through about a eighth of it before we had to leave. I would say that it was all of the London weekend markets cramped into one. It was located in the middle of park and part of it was permanently a part of the park. I found some really neat comical T shirts.
After the market we took the night train to Phuket. Daniel was so excited because it was his first train ride. We got a first class sleeper which compared to Caldonian sleepers it was like a cheap dirty hooker hotel. We saw a few roaches which we killed and had no problem with because they were much smaller than Georgia roaches. We slept until Surat Thani at 7:30 (it was shouted many times to us) and then took a bus to Phuket. After the pretty miserable 4 hour bus ride, we had to take another pricey cab to Surin Beach. The best way to describe Phuket is that it is a larger Key West (Gay mecca and everything I'm told). Surin beach had the most incredible waves. It was goregous. I was easily able to body surf. We were able to eat right on the beach. It was so beautiful and awesome looking.The next day by far was our best in Phuket because we went to the Ko Phi Phi islands. We got up early and took a speed boat over to the islands. There was some major wave action. Most of the boat got sick and my back hurt from being slammed down on the sea. We went to Phi Phi leigh first and it is a small uninhabited island. We didn't get to go on the beach because tide was so high, but they took us to a cove and we swam. Daniel like this the very best. Then we went over to Phi Phi Don and saw monkey beach. This beach had the fattest meanest monkeys. No one knows how they got there, but they are fed by all of the tourist boats that come to visit them. I went snokeling after, my first time, Daniel kept getting water in his nose. We had lunch on Phi Phi Don then headed out to this tourist trap beach island. This is where we proceed to burn the snot out of ourselves (skin cancer will for sure result from this burn). Daniel made friends with our tour guide Peter. By the end of the tour he kept touching Daniel and talking to him and how cool he was. Daniel found out that men touch each other if they like each other, and here was Peter giving him a massage on our dumpy island (I think the only good thing about that island). After our adventure in Phi Phi the next day we spend the morning on the beach hoping to have breakfast on it, but we had to be at the bus station before any restaurants opened (10 am). We speed up to Surat Thani. My burn made me take off my pocket book, which had our passports. We got off the bus and five minutes later I realized I left it on the bus. I sort of freaked out and I got the idea to get into the taxi and "Follow that Bus!" (the taxi drivers attacked us as soon as we disembarked, so they knew which bus) Our driver drove like mad to catch up to the bus since it was the beginning of rush hour, our second driver spoke English and help to translate. We were so happy to see that bus that I got on grabbed my purse and drove our taxi back to the train station.
Once we were waiting for the train back to Bangkok, we found a family that was in our same car. They were from the Netherlands, and there daughter to quite a liking to Daniel and I. We had her in our room, I think she would have slept in there too, playing squish the spider. She was so much fun.