Dearest Gabriel,
This year Christmas, mummy company had shutdown for 1 week plus, so we had planned for a trip to the gulf of Siam, Koh Samui after Christmas celebration. We traveled from Penang -> Haadyai-> Surat Thani-> Koh Samui -> Nakhon Si Thammarat->Penang. We spent one night at all towns each except Koh Samui, we were there for 2 nights. We went with poh-poh, gung-gung, yi-yi, kiu-kiu, Suk gung, suk poh, fat kiu2 and meh-meh. We drove 2 cars and you were on and off took charged of the communicator using the walkie-talkie, ” Rolling-rolling!”
You experienced the 1st Tut-tut car ride in the town of Haadyai. You were very excited although the air in the town was pretty contaminated. All 11 of us had to squeeze into the small little tut-tut! You were complaining you couldn’t sit at the end of the tut-tut car as that’s the most exciting but most dangerous seat. You were playing ” monkey bar” in the tut-tut car – hanging your 2 hands on the top bar.
After the night spent in Haadyai, you had diarrhea and vomitting the next day : ( We ended up delaying our trip to Surat Thani in the morning and we brought you to see doctor by the tut-tut car. The driver has become our translator! Everyone was worried about you as you vomitted everything that you took you refused to take any food for one whole day!
Fortunately, after you took the chinese medicine brought by poh-poh, you stopped vomitting before we reached Koh Samui. In the ferry, we were travelling with a lorry of pigs! This was your first time to see pigs…so ugly and smelly…their saliva was non-stop dripping…yak!!! But pork chop is nice! : )
Koh Samui is a beautiful island, especially the street that our hotel located! It gave us surprise after a long and tiring journey. We also enjoyed the sand and sea. Papa bought a beach toy set and a float for you. You enjoyed playing the “Life Guard and Shark” game. Yi-yi was the shark, kiu-kiu was chased by the shark, you and papa were the life guard pulling the float with a rope. And mummy was the movie director! We had a good laugh of the game. Then we proceeded to the 2nd swim in the pool.
Gabriel, we had an elephant ride up to the mountain! It was raining during the ride. At the beginning of the ride, we were just a bit scared…But when the elephant started to hike up the hill, we were really scared and you were screaming…” It is so dangerous!” Sob…Mummy regretted a bit as I had height fright. We saw a lot of elephant motion on the way and the elephant was not so obedient and made our ride more challenging. It would stop ped and scratched the body on the stone, so we were swaying left and right…SCARED…Yiyi and kiu kiu elephant even stopped at the dead end and refuse to walk for sometime! After the elephant ride, all of us were wet and need to change the pants. After that we proceeded to the elephant and monkey show. You were enjoyed and wanted to feed the elephant with banana. We had used 50 baht for 1 basket of rotten and black bananas but the elephant was enjoying. You also went for crocodile and cobra show and we saw people feeding the crocodile and you had touched the snake during the show.
Although the trip was not smooth and you fell sick during the journey, but we were glad that you had at least enjoyed the end of the trip with some animal show and elephant ride.
With Love,
Mummy and bapa
