"Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games."-- Guns and Roses

Khao Sok… rainforest in Thailand… has the biggest flowers in the world… that smell like rotting meat… Thank goodness they weren’t blooming while we were there… Now the jungle was the coolest place ever… it was full of monkeys and we were in cabins…. Mine was a little freaky b/c I was rooming alone… jungle noises at night… terrifying… especially when you’ve been playing drinking games all night… but as usual, I’m getting ahead of myself…

When we first got here, we were gonna go tubing… but then the rain came… wicked storm… so we decided to play some cards… and what do you know… I still had that bottle of rum from my b-day… and to get beer… you just had to pull a rope… and it was only about 2 in the afternoon when the mayhem began.

The Games: Shithead and Fuck the Dealer

Kim, Rhys, and Erst

Matt, Holy, and Thomas, never ever to be called Tom… his co-workers call him Nut Job…. For good reason, oh and Holy is a lawyer my age… who I would just love to meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.

Tara, Laura, and Alex… Tara is also an up and coming British Lawyer.

Aww, a group picture

Now this kind of stuff between Rhys and Matt tends to happen quite often…

Here’s Kim and Hannah

And then the staff found a toad… that poor toad…

Rhys said something about holly that led to matt trying to throw him over the edge of the hut….

Then there was lots of tomfoolery… and then it was the next day, and I awoke to find all sorts of things left in my room... camera, phone, mp3 player, cards, and juggling balls... none of which were mine.

The next morning we headed out on an elephant trek… This is much harder/scarier than you would think… especially when you’re a little bit on the hung over side.

Kim and I were buddies on the trek…. Into the jungle.

We stopped at this here waterfall… small but gorgeous…heehee, and a few of us went for a swim… its actually surprisingly deep… I couldn’t touch the bottom.

Great view of the rainforest on the way back… there was this cool plant… that when you touched it, the leaves would curl up… and a horrible bug that actually screamed in a really high pitched tone.

Later on we did finally go tubing… this time it was just the basic floating down the river… still a good bit of fun though (again those pictures are not digital, but will be posted eventually)

After the tubing, we hit up a monkey temple... full of monkeys... which we got to feed, and the climbed all over everything, and there were baby monkies... yes, i like monkeys... especially if they are freaking out the girly girls.

That night we went to a reggae bar… the only other thing really in the jungle…
This kid was doing cool tricks involving lighting some balls on fire at the end of string and winging them around.

Then the locals showed us this trick where you have to pick up a bottle with your mouth, while holding one leg behind you with both arms… all the boys had a go…. Which was rather amusing

Then Rhys started balancing things on his nose… He has a thing for balancing things and juggling and what not… would have done well w/ the campus fools.

There was more playing of drunken card games that night… did manage to lose my key, and ended up staying in Matt and Holly’s room…. All highly amusing