Phi Phi Islands

So this place is rediculous. It's fantastic yet has all the typical tourist traps and hounds the minute you walk off the boat. I will try and upload some more pictures at the end. The weather has been weird, every day for the past few we wake up to a crazy storm at about 3AM here, 5pm Seattle time. It's blowing really hard and raining like hell. Then when we finally wake up it's warm, cloudy and humid. By noon the sun is coming out. We sweat a lot. By the way, this is Brandon speaking today. Lindsey came down with some heat exhaustion late last night and is keeping cool in the shanty till later this afternoon. We'll probably hit the pool for a bit when she feels up to it. Just so you all know, she is fine and told me to tell everyone that. I had to run out and try and find some gatorade and crackers at 3:30 in the morning. Not a hard thing to do here. There were still people down on the beach, in the restaurants and playing pool in the bars. Everyone is here from all over the world and it creates an exciting atmosphere (not to mention everyone is on a a different time zone). On the ferry ride over I met a photographer and grad student from Austin, TX. Nice guys. they were just traveling from Taiwan and are staying at a hotel at the other end of the island...about 3mi. We may meet up with them later. Their hotel costs about as much for one night as ours does for 5. You can have it any way you want it here...bare bones or lux. Most people are traveling with backpacks like us and despite all of our best packing...we still feel like we overpacked...you just don't need that much. The food is different, tasty, and "interesting" at times. We haven't tried too many weird things. It's kind of annoying because most every restaurant offers thai food, pizza (of some form or another), pasta, german, western, and or Italian food, soup, salad and everything else you could want. Jacks of all trades and masters of none according to Lindsey (I am starting to agree but our dinner cost less than $15US last night with me dringking beer so who can really complain right?). We plan to snorkel and swim later this week. Take a long boat around to the different towns. Lindsey doesn't want to go on a shark watch..I don't blame her. I guess that's it for now. Pictures are of our little bungalo, me outside a crazy night market, the beach 30 yards from our door, Lindsey getting ready to eat some fresh shrimps and calamari at "Hippies" , and some guys harvesting swallow's nests from the cliffs, oh and there's a short little clip of Lindsey and how excited she was about the 2 hr ferry ride. I don't know if the sound came out over the drone of the engine. Temps about 88-90 and the humidity is high....Cheers.