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The thing I miss most about Thailand is the hot sun and my friends that I met there. My favourite place was Railay and Bang Na. I liked Bang Na because the owner of the treehouse was very nice, he spoke 6 different languages and I liked the whole house to myself!!!!!!!! I liked Railay because it was fun. I met most of my friends there, there were lots more kids than on Koh Lanta and in Chaing Mai.  My favourite meal was squid. I also liked noodle soup (special kind). I disliked waiting for the train in Surat Thani. I thought it was disgusting. I also did not like the crowds. The bugs were pretty cool, except when I got bitten. Here are some differences between Dawson and Thailand:

Its much more warm there. The sun comes up at 6 am and goes down at 6 pm but here in Dawson we live in the midnight sun, where the sun doesn't go down in the summer.

There are many more people there, even in the small towns.

Thailand has lots of people smile at you. Its not the same in Dawson- they smile and wave here, but we know them. In Thailand even strangers smile and wave.

There are much more small knowable activities in Dawson than there are in Thailand.

Dawson has more playgrounds than I saw in all of Thailand.

What I liked about travelling is that I could play video games a lot more than at home, and also I got to see beautiful sights out the window. I also just enjoy being in the air in a plane.

In my next travels, I would like to go to Cleveland.

Here is a picture of me now that I am home, and thank you to all the people who read my blog.

House To Myself!!!

We left railay 5 days ago. We left railay by a long tail stuffed with 20 people. We got off the boat and walked to a bus station. We waited for the last bus to switch buses. We waited for our next bus for two to three hours. It was crazy. So finally the bus came to take us to the night train station. When i was waiting for my train, i met a kid who was very poor and didn't have a home or family and he was alone. So i guess jamal and some of my other friends could say he's a hobo. We gave him some bandaides and some money. Moving on, we got into bangkok in the morning. We stayed in a guesthouse called Suk 11. ( some of my followers might be laughing that it is called SUCK 11). That night we left to go to see some muay thai. It was kind of gruesome so i am not going to explain it. We left in the morning to bangkok treehouse where I (Used to) have a house to myself!...
(Sorry! The house was in Bang Na)...
My house had a computer and it was on stilts above water. Bang Na is an island. We took a very very fast longtail to a pier and then a taxi to the airport then we got on a three hour flight to hong kong. And that is where I am writing this post right now. In the hong kong airport. My last post will be when I get home and I will sum up my thoughts about my trip.

Half Oliver, Half Mom

WOW WOW WOW!!!! "Railay is BEAUTIFUL!!!" "I got here by boat-longtail." We waded through (After we got off the longtail) water back to the beach. Our hotel room is beautiful. You will see from the photos. There is an outdoor shower and two pools. I have been swimming 8 hours a day. (some followers might think I am joking, but if you knew half the side of me... you'd think I'd be crazy). There is about hundreds of people here. I am having so much fun. We walked pretty much through a cave. They were areas where you could climb into caves where rock surrounded you, and any opportunity to climb, I did. The tides are crazy here. At about 1:00, the Tides are like a normal beach, at about 8:00, the Tide is about 25 meters out.
HERE'S MY MOM

I don't want to leave. This was our last night on the beach. Tomorrow we leave by boat to Krabi, then bus to Surat Thani, then our last night train to Bangkok. We will spend 3 nights there, including 2 nights in "Bang Na" which is also known as the "lungs of Bangkok". It is surrounded by the Chao Phraya River and we will be sleeping in a treehouse. Oliver should have gills by now, with all the time he has spent in the water. He has made a couple of friends, one from Sweden, one from Denmark, and one from France. English is limited, so friendships have been forged underwater by making faces at one another. Can't believe we've been away for a month. I 'd like to stay here at least a month more.

Time for Lime tuktuk

The Lanta Animal Welfare (Time for Lime is funding the shelter… kinda like the Humane's society in Dawson) is where there are 10 dogs that were abused and 7 cats. In total there are over 60 cats and dogs in the shelter. We walked 2 dogs called Pepsi and Lila. We walked them to a "river" (it was actually a creek because it's dry season in Thailand). We walked them because we wanted to help out the shelter.

My mom rented out a tuktuk from our hotel Nakara. (if you ever stay in this hotel, DON'T RENT OUT A TUKTUK!!!)
It was pretty fun but it was very steep and our tuktuk couldn't go down and up these extreme limits. We went to Lanta Old Island City. It looked old ...zing.
We went to a kinda crappy restaurant with Mikin and Joanne. Then we left.

I went to the Time for Lime cooking school. (in thai cooking, the time for lime is when the food is cooked, that's when you add the lime). It was amazing. I cooked homemade curry paste, tamarind sauce, BBQ chicken satay with peanut sauce and cucumber salad. Stir fried shrimp with roasted chili paste. Spicy and tangy prawn soup. Fried fish with tangy red curry sauce. In Thai cooking you have to have sweet sour and salty ingredients balance these ingredients and you will have a perfect meal. I used a killer knife and a wok and that's basically all. I also met the first kid I've talked to on this trip. His name was Johann (his name is pronounced Yohan).
Today is our last day on Koh Lanta. We are going tomorrow to Railay Beach.

Food and food and fisherman

This post is going to be about, as you might have guessed , food and fisherman in Thailand. We've gone to many restaurants that have had delicious food and many ok
restaurants. In thailand, you eat with a fork and spoon. As you know, I have tried squid in 6 different ways. I have had it fried, deep fried, whole on the BBQ, plain, in soup and stir fried with veggies. Squid is my favourite. I've had quite a bit of weird food. The main weird foods are yogurt with corn, beans and lotus nuts, (it was disgusting) a gushy kiwi like fruit that you had to peel like an orange to find a grape but more tough and it also had an odd blueberry like nut in the middle, and gummys backed with a sort of vanilla taste I got in the warorot market in Chiang Mai. We also got plain chicken smacked down on a stick with a bag of sticky rice on the train.
Now we are moving on to favourite foods. I love the chicken heart on a stick we got right here in Koh Lanta and I loved Mr. Wee's pizza shop. I also like the pistachio nuts and there are special types of tropical juice in Thailand that make up special shakes and smoothies.

When I was swimming, I saw at least 5000 sardines swimming around me in a school. I was able to borrow a mask and snorkel from a friend so I swam for an hour and a half following the fish. My mom says I would have swum out to sea with them. Each night at sunset we have been swimming in the sea while the sun sets. There has been fisherman that have been catching a lot of fish by shore. They have a large net and one guy swims out and brings out the nets length and the other guy stands on shore and holds the net. Then they pull the net sideways till they meet each other and pull all the fish to shore. And that's how I saved a very large hermit crab, a puffer fish, and a baby crab. I saved them with a frisbee and a stick. That's all for now.
Oh, and by the way, I am sorry for not posting sooner.