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Dec 11
Well, it looks like the protesters succeeded in ruining peoples travelling and holiday schedules. I just found out that ANA (All Nippon Airlines) has cancelled all their flights from Suvarnabhumi International airport for today/tonight, so I wont be flying today and I wont be home for Thanksgiving 
I’m looking for alternative ways to get out of here, so far they think it’ll be over by December 1st but I want to depart sooner so I’m looking to bus or train it to Phenom Penh, Cambodia airport or a southern Thailand airport.
Sorry everyone, this is so crappy
I was just there this morning, to the 3rd largest mall in the world, in Pasay City (Manila) Philippines, it’s called the SM Mall of Asia. It had just about every story, every company, every restaurant I’ve ever been to in my life!!! Nike, Subway, Columbia, Adidas, TGI Fridays, Timezone, IMAX theater, Holland Tulip, Dell, and olympic sized ice skating rink, bowling and thousands more!
On the way back to Cebu City from the Moalboal trip we stopped into the small city Badian to view the Kawasan Falls, sat there eating french fries and of course pounding some San Migs, thats probably why I was sweating so much! hehe, but it was extremely hot and was a LONG hike up very difficult rocky, slippery rocks, bamboo bridges, and mossy filled rocks.
We went far down south to Moalboal, Philippines. It’s a diving and beach resort place with some of the most beautiful coral reefs and some of the best diving/snorkling in the world!
We took out that bonka boat thing along with some chicken lechon minok (Cebuano cuisine food), some water, bananas and some San Mig Lights. Had an awesome time floating around viewing the bright blue starfish, the beautiful fish and all that. Was GREAT!
Afterwards the boat took us to White Sands beach, relaxed on the nice beaches.
I’ll be out of service for a few days, hopefully will get some good pics and will post them when I get back
In case of emergency, I’ll be at Novotel Chumphon
…..trip is done, here are the pics………….
From her brothers wedding, drinking beers at the reception with Prissana’s family
Next day after wedding, these beaches are very long, have many islands right of the coasts, and have like NO PEOPLE!!! It’s great!
Looking out the window of our resort at Tusita Resort in Chumphon, Thailand, was beautiful, secluded..
Last night, had some fresh food and beer at the beach, like the food pic? hows that for super fresh seafood!!!!! The ghung (shrimps) were awesome, dipping in their homemade spicy seafood sauce (that stuff you liked Tony)
couple more
Pattaya Thailand, relax time
Jul 29
Me and Prissana goofing around at a hotel in Pattaya, Thailand. Enjoying some time swimming and taking pics etc.
So, who do you think has a nicer ass?
By the way, anyone ever travelling to Pattaya, I’d highly recommend this hotel, I’ll plan on staying here for every future trip to Pattaya, to the Four Seasons Place
Tony, my Dad, and I all drove down to Florida today to meet up with Stevie and her family, (and also my Mom and niece Maddie and Nephew Payton flew in). It was a 16 hour drive but it flew right by (good thing they let me sleep for half the drive hehehe)
Looking forward for the next days spending with family, beach, and my doggies.
Great to be here!
June 20th – June 23rd, I went to visit 2 of my awesomest friends Shayda and Jamie in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had an awesome blast every single night we were there. I cant wait for the next meeting
Been travelling, flying, bus’s, taxi’s, trains, waiting, sleeeping, etc for the past 50 hours, but now FINALLY arrived back in the Quad Cities! Cant wait to see everybody
By the way, my arrival was a 100% surprise to my Mommy, here is the story and pictures hehe
Hope ya’ll are doing great!
On Monday May 5th my friend Felix married his long time Thai girlfriend in her city province of Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, it’s a small city about 2 hours northeast from Bangkok. Here are some of the Thai dishes we feasted on, chicken curry, lots of spicey soups, and some good coconut based desserts too!
It was SO SO SO hot walking around in 100+ degree weather, sun blazing on our faces, so any chance at finding a shadow was jumped on!!! LOL
Here is all the money given to the wife’s family, it’s traditional for the husband to marry the wife and give a “Dowry” to the family, to be honest I think it’s ridiculous for anyone to pay any family for any marriage hehe
Here is all of us at the 7pm reception type of thing, there was a TON of people that attended, approx 1000 people, we were the only farangs (foreigners) there of course, had tons of Thai whiskey, Vodka, traditional Thai dancers, good band, and an extremely large amount of delicious food, like those shrimps in the pics
Dream World!!!
May 7
During my friends weding, there was a break with nothing to do for 5 hours, so we decided to pass the time by going to Dream World. We went into the snow land area, to go sledding in freezing cold weather and even snow! And no I didnt win that doll for Prissana, my Aussie friend Gregor did LOL
Yesterday (April 23rd), I did another VISA run to Poipet, Cambodia, it’s a border town between Thailand and Cambo, they have a ton of casinos all packed in there, lots of tourists go there from Thailand because in Thailand gambling is illegal. So anyways, went there and finally wanted to check out a casino, I chose the Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino, went inside and I was surprised to see how nice and big it was, it had 6 roulette tables (my favorite), so I sat down, began wheeling and dealing, walked away after winning 8000 baht!
Talk about a beautiful place? Phuket Beach, Koh Phi Phi, Maya Bay in Thailand, SO beautiful, it’s an island off the coast of Phuket Island, have you seen the movie “The Beach“? With Leonardo DeCaprio, well that movie was shot at this gorgeous place, hope you like my pics It was truly a lovely place!
On this day we went on a Klong Tour on the Chao Phraya River here in Bangkok, Thailand, it was nice, seen some cool stuff, Heidi met another love of her life, the little monkey thing, a gibbon, what was his name Heidi? Anyways, he was soooooo cute. So, we got to see the aligators just chillin, and the snake show was kinda neat, they milk the venom from the snakes, got a great pic of that. So, sippin’ on some coconuts, we continued down the river again, and got off on a dock, that charged us about 50 cents each for just landing at their dock, hehe, gotta make their bucks somehow I guess right?
After the klong tour we went right nearby to see the HUGE shiny Buddha monument inside the famous Wat Pho, it was like my gazillionth time there, but I thought T&H would like to see this huge thing. We covered a lot of ground that day didnt we???
I’m having internet problems at my hotel right now, so cant upload the pics yet, coming VERY soon though