JONATHAN'S BIRTHDAY!!!

Koh Samui is absolutely amazing. 

The beaches are gorgeous, the people are friendly, and the resorts and spectacular. More importantly, it is Jonathan's 24th birthday while we are here on Koh Samui and a celebration is in order!

To begin things off for his big day was a villa at the Bhundari Beach Resort on Chaweng Beach at which we have a private villa with pool and an ocean view. Pretty spectacular. For the big day, the celebrations included massages, my beautiful singing, and feasts.

One of these very feasts included a Private BBQ on our villa's patio and involved a vast assortment of food and a private chef to prepare it all. The lunch was amazing, but involved way to much food being served. The quote of the day had to have been Jon's, "There are starving kids in Africa... no forget that there are probably starving kids on this island why do they keep feeding us?"

Regardless, the meal was delicious, and between trying to hide food on our plates and throwing it into the bushes nearby as to not make the chef believe we didn't like it and had in fact eaten it all, we had an amazing meal to celebrate. After that it was nap time of course and then off to explore the nearby Chaweng town and spend some time at the recommended Ark Bar for the evening. 

Ark Bar was an adventure to say the least... Located right on the beach, the setting was amazing but the surrounding atmosphere could have been better.  Almost outnumbering the vast number of tourists at the bar were Thai children pawning off about anything and everything they could. There were necklaces, swimsuits, bracelets, and glowing clocks among other items, all being sold by children no older than 10 at the very greatest everywhere you looked. Also being sold was a game of Connect Four against the children for a mere 100 Baht although they would undoubtedly win every time. If you said no they would either move on/fake cry/pout/lower their price or harass you as Jon got to experience. His refusal of a game of Connect Four led to a 7-year old girl flipping him off and flicking his ear for a matter of minutes before just continuing to pull his leg hair and then push him as she threw her fit... It was very very strange... nothing like being attacked by a little girl to say 'Happy Birthday!'

We spent the rest of the weekend in Koh Samui for the remainder of birthday celebrations minus the evil little girls before our final farewell to this side of Thailand and heading our instead to Phuket.