After checking out of Golden Hill we made our way back to Thongsala pier for the ferry to Koh Samui. When we arrived in Koh Samui we had lunch at a local street stall before getting a taxi to Koh Samui airport. Koh Samui is an open-air airport and on this day it happened to be about 35 degrees. All of a sudden the plan to play Big-2 for 4 hours in the waiting lounge didn't seem like such a good decision. After a few hours of Big-2, we found solace in the airconditioned ice-cream shop which had 2 staff for every customer.
Finally we boarded our twin-prop plane bound for Phuket. I took great delight in seeing this burly white dude trying to squeeze into his seat. This bloke was about 2 metres tall and 120+kg of muscle. At first he tried to go "legs into the aisle" but his quads were too massive. So then he tried "battered-sav" with his legs spread. He really did not look comfortable. Lucky for him the stewardess arranged a seat swap so he got the front seats. Oh, and he had a little spinner/hooker/girlfriend who was literally 1/3 the size of him. No shit, this guy was massive and she was average girl size - the combo would have made for some interesting positions.
After touching down in Phuket we got a couple of taxis to Patong which took about 40 minutes and cost about 800 baht each taxi. Sim found accomodation at Sopita Hotel which at 600 baht a night for a twin room with aircon, was a deadset steal. The hotel operator was this fat tattooed Thai gangster and he had an identical twin. He also had a hot daughter but we didn't speak to her out of respect/fear of being chopped into numerous pieces.
After checking-in we went to the street markets and found a seafood stall called "Chiang Mai Seafood". Blai and Sim engaged in round 1 of their seafood-fest and then we went home and watched Midnight Hot on FashionTV.
After seafood-fest round 1, Sim went to the barber and had his head shaved by a barber, whom I maintain was of questionable gender.
