put on your drool guard

so this is really the most blissful warm place I've ever been (otice the qualifier- "warm". TO me true bliss is 70 inches of base and 30 inches of fresh snow somewhere on the west coast and Im' in a little log cabin with like 10 of my friends and I nkow how to telemark ski).

so since its warm, this place is IT. We have a ltitle bungalow on a beach, where there are about 5 or 6 other hotels/hostels. From our two hamocks on our proch (which we got for $5 each), we look through palm trees to a white sandy beach and gently lapping waves. We have watched the sunset each evening. We start our days with a long swim along the shore, then a breakfast of fruit and yogurt and granola (fruit = pineapple (FAVORITE!!!), papya, banana). freshly squuezed sweetest ever orange juice. THen we go sit by the poolside (by the ocean) with our novels. The first two days we kind of just shifted from beach side to poolside to porch and variosu eating venues. Today we went on a snorkeling trip and saw all kinds of angel fish, parrot fish, needle-nosed fish (realy), clownfish, aemones.... all that. And a tasty thai lunch. turquoise waters.Lush jungle. HOT HOT HOT. It is REALLY HOT. So you have to either be in a body of water or the shade or moving VERY SLOWLY between the two. For some reason spicey foodis really killer in the heat. Killer in a good way.

So we're kind of getting used to this. Oh andthere are these little air conditioned bungalows where we can check email at night. The party rotates from hotel to hotel- and since we're now btoh in our thirites, we're kind of avoiding it (ok, you friends of Betsy, you nkow I'm just dragging Eric down to my level of lameness, where I have always needed to go to bed early- poor gy.one of you should have warned him).

We're checknig out yoga/meditation retreats. Hard to find one that has good meditation for eric but also has yoga for me. SOme of the websitse are hilarious- like, "I am more Yogi than the other yogi retreats so come to my yoga place and you will be more yogi than your friends". Not really what we are looking for.

sorry abotu the tpos- this machien is wicked slow and we're paying by the minute. So I shoudl sign off. But we hope you are all doing well and that you don't have to big a puddle of drool on your keyboards. we can't believe our luck.

if anyone has opinions about Laos or Northern Thailand in terms of travel, please share. We miss you all.
xo
betsy and eric