Koh Phangan

As much as we enjoyed Koh Samui, we had an upcoming date with a half moon party so we left Koh Samui the next day for Koh Phangan.  Koh Phangan was a smaller island that was another hr or so boat ride to.  We arrived and headed to a small peninsula on the southeastern tip of the island.  The peninsula was very skinny and from where we were stayin it was about a 10 min walk either direction to the beach.  The 2 beaches were sunrise and sunset beach, pretty self explanatory.

Apparently the evil ginger in me communicated with God and made it rain for a 2nd straight day that we were on a tropical paradise.  I now know why people hate gingers.  Fortunately once the sun went down the rain stopped...seriously.
Anyway we decide to have dinner on a beach front hotel.  I would imagine something such as that would cost around $20 or so minimum in 'Merica.  However, this is Thailand.  I believe it was a lil expensive for Thailand and we paid around $3-4.  After dinner, the beach was pretty quiet and not a whole lot was goin on so we headed about a block or so off the beach to a nearby bar. 

Around 10pm or so we decided to try the beach again to see if anything was happenin, and amazingness (new word I made up) followed.  They had what were called 'buckets' for sale at all of these different places along the beach.  And the name pretty much describes them.  Small buckets, that you would use to build sand castles back in the day, filled with ur fav mixed drink.  The booze was cheap and plentiful on the beach, we also decided to smoke some delicious hookah.  That wasnt even the most exciting part of the night either.  There was a live fire show being performed by Thai men on the beach.  Basically they swing around long poles that are in flames.  Its pretty exciting to watch and they were only about 10 feet, tops, away from us.  AND then they had these long chains with balls on the end that they would light on fire and they would swing those around.  It was really cool stuff to watch.  Oh and ya after that we were spitting fire, nbd.  You could drink kerosene and then they had lit fire poles that you could spit at to make it look like you were spitting fire.  Really (insert favorite swear word) sweet.
Sitting there in my drunkness, on a beach in Thailand, watching a fire show, it hit me; Im currently living in a dream world.  If someone told me a year ago what Id be doin I wouldnt have believed it.  Sometimes I gotta sit back and think about how crazy these past 3-4 months have been.  Experiences that hopefully I will never forget!!