Phuket: Day 3 & 4

HELLO!

I've been waiting for my sister to send me some pictures for my third day in Phuket, but she still hasn't gotten to it yet.. So in the meantime I'll just do without them :) I'll let you guys know when I update this post! <3

DAY 3:

Morning:
-breakfast
-saw tons of geckos and lizards and snails (oh my!) 
-got 3 mosquito bites in a row on my chest

Yummy fruity breakfast for meee - bites of hell - leetoh lizard sun bathing and chillin' - snail race on the wall.

Noon-afternoon:

-lunch at Blue Mist, restaurant on the beach (more fresh coconuts!)

-ELEPHANT RIDING & BATHING

View of the beach - walking to restaurant - Blue Mist - shrimp cake - Thai papaya salad - steamed fish (only a part of lunch is shown because.... I ate it all...)

YES, I met a real elephant. I know this might be a bit of an iffy topic for some people especially animal lovers, so I'll just touch base with this part of the day. 

-My elephant's name is Bui, a fifteen year old female elephant, the youngest of the four that they had at their site. 

Elephant trekking: there was a seat strapped on the back, or you were allowed to sit on the actual elephant *which I ended up doing. Bui was non-stop eating and my sister/Joey's elephant took a massive dump halfway through trekking (heh..) 

Elephant bathing:consisted of us being in a river with the elephants with brushes and giving them a little scrub, as well as being dunked in the (very muddy and dirty) river by the elephants themselves (I choked on the dirty water and died a little). 

End of the tour: fed the elephants sugar canes :)

I know tourists only see only the surface and a small part of what the living conditions and treatment of the elephants are, so I can't really say much about it. But the care-takers and the elephants seem to have a good relationship/good communication with one another (it's also a repeated routine/route, so the elephants didn't need much instruction). It's one of those things that it's a once in a lifetime kind of experience that just one time is enough. 

-----> Insert elephant pictures here for later <----

We went to a local market afterwards to buy some yummy fruits and of course sticky mango rice and Thai desserts :)

After going for a swim upon returning to the hotel and devouring the desserts, I ptfo'd in bed and woke up to take-out dinner (AND MORE FRESH COCONUTS) from the restaurant from the night before (literally eating /sleeping /eating /sleeping).. 

Desserts from the market (coconut milk based desserts) - gigantic grilled prawns - famjam dinner at the hotel- COCONUT.

DAY 4: Last Day :'(

Beach: Half sunny with  half dark loomy clouds approaching 

Last buffet breakfast with an ocean view on the last day of our Phuket trip. The weather went from cloudy to dark clouds looming over to rain/thunderstorm to a rainbow
and sunshine during our breakfast.

Before breakfast weather - last breakfast :( - After breakfast weather

 After breakfast and swimming again, we checked out of the hotel and went for our last lunch at the restaurant at the beach again (this time, from the one we ordered dinner from twice!). Thank God I decided to melt in my long pants than get more mosquito bites on my legs (they.are.everywhere...)

Last Thai meal at Phen Restaurant Thai Food & Seafood

It was definitely a much needed trip and boy did we relax and do absolutely nothing but eat, sleep and play. I'm super blessed and grateful that we were able to travel together as a family and to enjoy Phuket together :) 

Bye for now, Phuket <3


**and no, this was not my sister/Joey's honeymoon, they're having their honeymoon later!**