Meal Worms, Grasshoppers, and Connect Four--Samui Continued

As detailed as Brett's post was about Koh Samui, there were a couple details left out. The first night we were in Samui we were eating a beautiful beach side restaurant, called Relax (apparently every Island has at least 4 resorts/restaurants/bars named Relax). Enjoying our dinner, a Thai girl, no older than 12 comes over to our table, batting her cute eyes and asks us if we would play her in Connect Four. For those who do not remember such a popular child hood game, you use checker like playing pieces to drop down into different shafts in order to get 4 in a row. She told us if we won she would pay us 100 baht and if we lost we pay her a 100 baht. Brett convincing me to say no, I figured what do I have to loose, $3, how hard can this be? Well within 5 minutes she had taken 100 baht from my self and Meghan. We both took pictures with her and she first held up the peace sign, only to look at the picture later and see she gave us the big "L" sign for Loser! Damn those Thai girls. Throughout the night we saw wallet after wallet opening, ultimate Connect 4 domination! At least this is what they are getting there money from (at least for now). We left the bar to go stroll around the town. The dogs are endless around here and some are actually really cut and sadly skinny, one proceeded to follow up all around and sit with us at a bar, for those who know me you know I can not resist giving attention to a cute dog, although I only pet the dog (I made sure I used hand sanitizer afterwards). After the heart breaking dog, we proceed to walk further when a little Thai girl, no older than 5, comes running up to me, throws her arms around me and just hangs on. This wasn't a move to pick pocket as I had no pockets or a purse, I never get attention like that from little kids and if I would have had the $ she definitely would have gotten some from me, Brett had to tear her away from me, another heart breaking encounter.

On our last night we went to this golf course to play "soccer golf" which is exactly like golf, you play 18 holes but instead of a club and ball you use a soccer ball. This definitely was the highlight for me and so much fun. BT and Brett ended up getting holes in one and BT beat the terrible American record of 75 (game total was out of 66) with an amazing score of 58! I got second place with 1 under. We need to figure out how to bring this back to the states!

After golf, we walked over to a night market with street food, this is where Brett got to finally take on the role of Andy Zimmerman and tried a grasshopper and meal worm, they were fried to a crisp but his face reaction was of disgust, might be his last meal worm. You will see the pics.

As much as I liked Koh Samui, Koh Phi Phi has definitely been my favorite beach town. Mainly for how small and quaint it is. You can walk around the whole town without having to use public transportation which is almost always a rip off. And every restaurant and bar looks cooler than the next. Definitely wish we could have stayed here longer (but in a nicer hotel).

We have been in Koh Pha-Ngan for almost a week now and we are staying at a great resort where the staff is incredibly nice and hospitable located right on the beach. We have decided to skip Koh Tao and head back to Bangkok tomorrow to rest for a couple days at Olivia's and then start our route up to Chiang Mai and all around.