Hey everyone, this time coming to you from mostly sunny Thailand!

Our day in Malaysia was quiet, but nice, our Hotel was beautiful, especially for only 60 bucks, and I got to swim in the outdoor pool. the breakfast buffet left something to be desired, but it was a gorgeous place,



actually, all the food there was sketchy, this is the Ceasar Salad I got from room service the night we landed there.... yes I said salad.





Anyways, we made it to Thailand with little fuss, and have moved into our room at the Baan-Phil Guesthouse, which is where we'll be until New Years Day, and hopefully for a day or two on the way back at the end.



We went out the night we arrived and found a genuine Harley Davidson Biker bar, which ended up being where we had a drink, to celebrate. Then we went back and crashed!

The next morning we went out to explore Patong for a bit, of course the first place we went, the Beach!

(I got my Flippy floppys!)

Our first full day was a lot of fun in the sun and exploring the city, It was a blast and actually pretty tireing.

Today we ventured into actually doing stuff, we met a tour booker and booked a few things for the next two days through him. the first thing that we did...

I went Bungee Jumping!

It was a blast, I'm really glad I did it. I dove from 50 meters and did a water dunk. But it was terrifying, as my scream of horror will show whenever I get the video online and I don't know if I could do it again, but I'm glad I did.

After that we went and explored a waterfall, saw a Gibbons ape rehab center, and went to a pretty cool performance called Fantasea, I'll fill you all in on that stuff later. For now I'm off to get a massage and crash, tomorrow Marion and I are up bright and early to go Sea Canoeing around James Bond island.

And a new journey begins, or at least a sidetrek.

Before I write this, I'll admit up front that I don't really like recounting events that have happened to me in a written form. It's not that I don't like to let people know what's going on, I do. Everyone who knows me knows that I relish telling a story.

But recounting it here, for some reason is dull, and was never really what I set out for when I made a blog (way back when) and this was just "Comedy, Tragedy, Geekery" but when you're on the other side of the world friends and family tend to want to know what's going on, and honestly I'm far too out of touch with everyone to not understand their desire for me to keep this current.

So to those people (Mom, among others) I do apologize.

So I'll compromise, I'm going to go back to trying to use this thing to write whatever I feel like writing about, and to give more opinion than fact, but I'll try to keep it topical.

For now though, this should be easy. Marion and I are venturing on a ten day vacation to Thailand and I am going to try to keep updating this as we go along, though it won't be every day for sure.

We left this morning, bright and early, worried that we were going to get caught in the rush of christmas traffic, as you can see... we were wrong.

The bus was quiet (here we see Mar going along with the crowd) and quick, so quick we arrived almost 2 hours ahead of schedule, the airport is as dead as I've ever seen it and I'm set to go to Kuala Lampur for the night and Thailand tomorrow.

Merry Christmas everyone! this is going to be one of wierder ones I've had, but I can't wait.

a brief recap in photos...

Sorry I'm so bad at updating this, I'll write more of an explanation for that later. However I thought I'd dust this old blog off and give it a face lift for my impending journey to Thailand. (tomorrow!) to get everyone up to date, here's a brief recap of some highlights of my year, in photo.

Welcome Back

Welcome back to CTG in Korea, my this place is quite dusty.

I have to be honest, giving a day to day of my life in Korea gets a little dull, which is why this blog fell off the grid in May, because I'm not that interested in just writing about what goes on. So instead I'm going to try a few new things and pick specific things to write about. Things like life at school, Korean restaurants and day to day stuff that happen in this strange country. Honestly this is all pretty close to what the blog was supposed to be the first time around, but didn't really materialize. So we'll see how it goes.

Oh yeah, for those not in the know, I (and my "better" half) have signed back up for another year in the Land of the Morning Calm. I'll fill you in on more later.

Anyong Hasseo