Day 21

Another lesson in lazy travelling today. We got up pretty early but just faffed around doing not much for a while. Went out to the nearby parked and just sat and relaxed before getting breakfast or a melted cheese toasty (very thai). We faffed around some more before heading back to the hotel in order to check emails and get some more money. As soon as we got in the rainy season started again. It was absolutely pouring so we decided to stay in for a while. After it had been rainy constantly for about an hour we decided to just to go out in it. Hugh was leaving today and so we all decided we would as well. Tiggy and Susie were going to Chaing Mai, i was going down to Phuket and Hugh was going to London to work for a bit which was/is pretty cool. There were a few things we each needed to pick up/book so we all put swimming trunks and old t-shirts on headed out. It was nuts, we were soaked through in about a minute but it wasn't cold at all. Just like having a constant shower. Everyone looked at us like we were mad but we decided we'd made the right choice instead of trying to dart between shops or use an umbrella (which offered little protection in this rain). We went and did our last bit of shopping and booked our tickets and the headed back. After showering, packing up and checking out Hugh had to leave to catch his airport bus so we walked him down and had another emotional goodbye. At around 5 the girls had to catch their bus so i walked them down and said goodbye, i was starting to think everybody was trying to get away from me...
My bus was supposed to be at 5:30 but the man arrived at 6. He took me on a huge walk all around the area picking up different people from each hotel (the reason i'd booked with my own hotel was so i'd get picked up from it not to walk around picking everyone else up). At around 7 we all pilled in to a minibus which took us to the station. In broken english the driver explained that the bus would arrive around 7:30 and depart at 8. He told us to wait at platform 17 pointed us in the rough direction and left, great.
We waited at the platform until the bus finally arrived at 9:15 and left at 9. It had taken me 3.5 hours just to get on the bus...
I was the only westerner on the bus bar a really fat old guy who was sat next to a tiny, really pretty thai girl (A great reminder of the fact we were in bangkok). The bus was in fact pretty good, reclining chairs instead of beds but after watching most of Born on the 4th of July i crashed out and didn't wake up until 6 the next morning.