Finally, an island!

We are in Phuket! We made it to the south!!!! Sukhothai's ruins were amazing... but it was nice to get out of that town.
The bus from Bangkok to Phuket was utterly ridiculous. Left at 6 pm, as soon as we boarded, they put on a video called "magic memories"... some live concert of a weird thai guy with crazy outfits, stage contraptions, and dancers. It was SO loud, i couldnt' turn up my ipods volume loud enought to drown it out. THen after that was over, they played Hellboy II in Thai, just as loud. Then when it was over, finally we are like 'phew we can sleep now' it was about 10 pm. At midnight, for a reason know one knows, all the lights on the bus turn on, adn they start blaring what sounded like a spanish-inspired Thai song as loud as they can. We woke startled, not understanding what was going on.... we stopped at a rest stop.
Im starting to hate the vendetta Thai people have for not putting toilet paper in the bathrooms...
So we got to Phuket, rode on the back of motorbikes with our huge packs to a guesthouse, showered nad finally went to the beach!!!
aaaah its so beautiful! There are palm trees lining the beach with white sand, blue clear water, and surrounded by hills covered in more palm trees and banana trees. THe water is very warm adn the sun is very hot... we saw an elephant by the side of hte road!!!
TOday we are going to a Gibbon Rehabilitation Center in the north of the island!!
We are leaving Bangkok monday, and im going back to sydney for 2 weeks before coming back to north america for christmas woo!!!