Today we got breakfast at the hotel. They've built nice little bungalow huts only feet from the water, and you eat by lying down on your side with pillows to support. Just like eating on the couch--I'm used to this already! There's also live Thai music being played in another hut, and the food was fantastic. Wow, resort vacations can be nice, and I'm glad we saved this treat for the end.
After finishing our final bites, we heard an elephant roar from down the beach. Investigating, it appears our hotel has a 3 year-old pet elephant. Despite it's 1 ton size, it was still quite small (relatively speaking). We were allowed to feed him and then take short rides bareback down the beach on him. I must say this is the first time I've stayed at any hotel with it's own playpal elephant.
The rest of the day was spent lounging, getting massages, swimming in the pool, and catching dinner and a Thai Dance show at the resort. There were only 5 couples in attendance, each with their own bamboo hut to watch the show and eat really good seafood.
December appears to be a great time to visit. Evening entertainment was a walk down the strip of bars and restaurants, only to allow ourselves to be dragged into Christy's Cabaret. If you don't know (I didn't), Cabaret here means "Drag Show," with more transvestites dressed up in feathers then you've ever seen in your life. Some of them, shall we say, were surgically enhanced in a manner that I wish to remove the visual from long-term memory. It was actually quite funny, and although we were there for only a beer, the friendliness and aggressive hospitality of our hosts (hostesses?) soon had me running for the door.
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