What Would Happen If...: ...A monkey in overalls greeted you on a beach?

You would have to befriend him right? Peter the monkey and I met on a beach the other night and I'm happy to say things are going well - today I ran into him again and he gave me a high five. I love this place.

We're in the southern islands of Thailand now on Ko Phi Phi which I'm thinking will be our home for the next week or so considering it's one of the most beautiful places in the world. After Bangkok we took a boat from Krabi and spent 2 days in Ko Lanta - a much more chill island that was nearly deserted (of non-Thais that is). We met some new friends from the US and England on our last night along with a super creepy Thai man named Gof who had a green cutoff on that said something about the USA with a weed leaf under it. Fun fact: If you get caught with weed (or any other drug here for that matter) you get the death penalty by firing squad. Unless you're able to bribe your way out of it. Which I guess also happens often. None of this seemed to stop Gof of course.

Below is our $5/night view in Ko Lanta - pretty awesome.

Koh Phi Phi is amazing so far - we've spent a lot of time on the beach, did some hiking today to another spot called Longbeach with a group of German girls we met, and are taking a private long boat out tomorrow at 7am to check out some of the smaller beautiful islands including Maya Beach where the movie The Beach was filmed.

We're spending the week in a tiny bungalow that we were able to negotiate down to $4/night. It's pretty bare bones (no hot water, ac, etc) but I'm enjoying it since it reminds me how little we actually need and how low maintenance I can be when needed. There's something so exhilarating and freeing about waking up, throwing on a bathing suit and heading out to enjoy the world. Note to future self: keep it simple.