The Eid Holidays are our major chance for travel during the school year and because they align with the Hijra lunar calendar they move up about 11 days each year. This year the break fell at the end of October which made the time right for a tropical island trip to Koh Samui, Thailand. We stayed at Rocky’s Boutique Resort which was just perfect – small and private with a great staff and a wonderful beach. For the most part we simply alternated between beach, pool, massage and food in various combinations each day. One interesting side trip was dinner at the Tree Tops restaurant – only 7 tables and nestled in the branches of a huge tree and overlooking Chaewing Bay. Amazing dining experience complete with a “salt guru” who visited our table to recommend the correct type of salt to use with the various dishes. The other highlight was hiring a boat for the day to take us out for some “snorgling” as Nora calls it, fishing and some time on a tiny island that was all beach.
Enjoy the pictures ((Some of these pictures were also posted on facebook during the trip itself but I’m didn’t take the time to weed out duplicates))! Note that I’m still fiddling around with the new gallery format on the site since I upgraded – hopefully everything is working. Drop me a line if things don’t seem to work or you have a suggestion for improvement. I’m keeping my web photos on Flickr now and just linking a gallery onto the blog. You can use the “view in Flickr” link to just to my photostream and view even more images.
The kids are goofy but in high spirits as we departed for Koh Samui.
Nora was happy to have finally arrived.
Nora with a long nose.
It was sunny when we first landed and we took a quick nap. We were awoken by Nora squealing with excitement over the rain storm that swept in.
This was early in the storm. By 15 minutes later that entire path was underwater.
At the tip of the resort was a tiny little beach that we spent a lot of time on. Often we had it to ourselves but never were there more than one other couple.
Kai and Nora fight the incomming tide.
I never get tired of Nora's sunny disposition
All that fun on the beach can wipe a girl out.
Kai staring out to sea.
A Panorama of our favorite beach.
Kai is caught unawares by the paparatzi.
Dinner at Tree Tops restaurant. It may not look like it but we were way up in the branches of a tree.
We weren't sure they would but Kai and Nora really took to massages.
Kai was too cool for things like face paint.
Nora the butterfly.
