Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A few more days

We are now super friends with the pancake man :) and when we walk by (ie pretty often since he is right next door to our "room"), we say hello in Thai, and he answers hello in english with his own accent: "Allooo! Pancake?" He is this old little Thai dude, and he makes awesome Thai pancakes :) We did a walk in the jungle a few days ago, in flip flops...! We haven't had any electricity for the last 4 days. Normally, if all goes well, here on the peninsula, there is electricity (for one plug, one light bulb and one fan in our room) from 6pm to midnight, and we've had no water from our faucet either: the "plumber" has left the island for a few days! However, life goes on in our little room... It is separated from the room next door with 2 sheets of plaster/wood, and let me tell you there is life in between these sheets. Brendan and I both agreed that some bigger animal killed some smaller animal in there last night, and something squealed...!!! I thought they might both end up in our room! And we have one more cockroach for Brendan's successful killing counts. For the climbing, we have climbed a lot, still haven't sent, but it's all good, and our fingers are super dead. Nothing dries out here, so your swim suit smells like dead frog, and that's ok, but your fingers are so moist, they get used up a lot faster on the rocks. Once you have a little booboo here, it's hard to have it heal well! Today will be our last rest day, and then we'll climb until we leave. We have a few more days here on Tonsai, and we bought our bus tickets to go back to Bangkok on Sunday. 15 hours in a Thai bus, then plane, and we'll be back in SF!! Hope everybody is doing good!! (That will probably be our last post, until we get home, when I'll put up some pictures!!!)
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On est devenus super copains avec le pancake man: quand on passe devant son petit satnd, on lui dit bonjour en Thai et il nous dit Hello avec son accent Thai: "Alloooo! Pancake?" c'est genial! C'est un vieux petit Thai, qui est assis la toute la jhournee a faire des super pancakes! Ici tout baigne, on est alles se ballader dans la jungle en tongues il y a qq jours. On n'a pas eu d'electricite depuis 4 jours, et pas d'eau non-plus. Normalememnt, il y a de l'electricite de 18h a minuit, pour une prise, une ampoule, et le ventilateur. Hier soir, il y a une bestiole qui a passe un sale quart d'heure dans le mur au dessus de notre tete: et ca a finit an couinement et le plus gros a tue le plus petit surement!! Il s'en passent des choses dans les murs ici! Il nousreste qq jours ici a Tonsai, on a achete nos billets de bus pour notre retour a Bangkok dimanche. On a bcp grimpe, et nos doigts sont fatigues! Ici rien ne seche tellement l'air est humide. POur le maillot de bain, c'est pas grave, ca sent les iles!!! Mais pour la peau de nos doigts, ca s'use bcp plus vite quand c'est humide sur le caillou! On prends le bus dimanche, 15 heures de bus jusqu'a Bangkok, et apres ca l'avion jusqu'a SF. Voila voila!! J'espere que tout le monde va bien!! Bisous~~ (Ce sera surement notre dernier petit message d'ici notre depart, et je mettrai des photos quand j'arrive a la maison)

5 comments:

Janis Couvreux said...

Wow, what stories you will have to tell..and tell, and tell...I can't wait to hear them all, and see the pix! You may have a rude awakening back here--it has been barely 20 degrees F (-6 C here in Petaluma all week at night. In the morning, it looks like a good few inches of snow! We've been having an "arctic blast" as they say.

Delphine said...

Profitez bien de vos derniers jours!!Et surtout bon courage pour le retour! ça en fait des heures de transport!!
Encore merci de nous avoir fait participer à votre voyage!

Oliv said...

Gardez un sweater sous la main pour le retour..., ca va vous faire un choc thermique! Global warming my ass! Tell me about local freezing :)
A bientot,
- Olivier

Janis Couvreux said...

Eh, Don Pedro, je peux vous garantir que vous n'avez pas aussi froid que nous ici dans le grand nord! Mais, au moins pour courir le matin ca incite d'aller plus vite!

Oliv said...

nan ces po vre fai mem po froi! get ready guys, je fait tornade blanche pour lundi! yahoo, see you soon. (dont squash Rupert on your way back, thanks.)

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