Same Same but Different: Ton Sai

Life is simple here...

7:45am - Keelin and Ian wake me up by knocking on my bungalow door and we have some breakfast.
9:30am - We climb. Usually getting to the route is half the fun (wading in neck-high water, scrambling through the jungle, etc.) Sometimes we skip the morning climb and just sit on the beach.
1:00pm - Lunch at our favorite "restaurant" called Chicken Lady 2. It's really just a food stall with three bamboo tables. The same guy takes our order every time, which usually includes him laughing at us about something or giving us a mini lesson in Thai.
2:30pm - We climb some more, meaning that Ian climbs up like a pro, Keelin does a good job, and at multiple points on the route I just hang there and wonder how the hell I am supposed to reach my hand into the pocket four feet above me.
6:30pm - Dinner at Chicken Lady 2 and the sunset. The BBQ chicken is bomb. Don't eat too many mangoes and too much curry. I did have a not so pleasant deja-vu moment in the jungle (only those of you who were in Ko Samui eleven years ago know what I'm talking about). We've been forced to take "rest days" consisting of toast, bananas and rice.
8:00pm - We retire to our bungalows. Often I am greeted by giant cockroaches, frogs, and other unknown creatures...there are a few holes giant in the floor (hooray for cheap accommodation!)

Most days also include playing with kittens on my porch, watching baby monkeys, reading on the beach, and complaining about the mosquitoes.

Keelin and I on the sailboat!

Today, however, we spiced things up and went on a sailboat that took us to a sweet deep water soloing locale, then sailed a bit through the islands. It's not very often that you get to dangle from a stalactite then drop twenty feet into the Andaman Sea.