FULL MOON PARTY!

Then, at 11pm it was time to start drifting to the beach from the restaurant (20 meters..). There were two small boats and so many people that we were wondering how on earth are we going to fit in those.. These small boats, almost like rowing boats but only with engines, would have probably seated around 20 persons but in our boat there were 40 people.. Behind and next to me and Marie there were some Spanish guys sitting and they offered us a towel, and at first we wondered why.. Well, once the journey got started we noticed how much the water splashed inside.. Not long after we were already soaked and with the towel tried to cover our faces and our make ups.. :D The whole boat trip lasted around 30 minutes and it went so slowly. The full moon was nice tho! And it felt like it was really low :) Once we came around the corner and saw the huge beach and all the lights and started going closer we noticed the noise and how many people there were on the beach! At the beach our boat captain accidentally collided into another boat and we thought that both of them broke down. People jumped from the boat but since I'm not the tallest I didn't wanna get totally wet by jumping to the water..

At first I was a bit terrified of the party since it was so crazy in there! We agreed on a place where to meet if someone got lost. I didn't even feel like drinking since I had heard so many horror stories from the party. Little by little I started feeling better and me and Marie always shared a bucket of alcohol and we were really careful of looking after it. People were wearing neon colored t-shirts, vests, shorts etc! Everyone had body paints painted all over! Of course we had to go and buy some too! 

I'm not even sure what to write about the full moon party because it was just something you have to experience yourself. Local people said after the party that on the busiest months there are from 7 000 to 13 000 people. Now there might have been around 5 000 people.

We changed places quite often because the music was different in different places. And of course me and Marie wandered around the beach by ourselves and between the beach on the walking street. We sat down on the walking street and met some guy from France and he was so annoying! We sat in front of this massage place with ladyboys. Me and Marie ended up writing to his back ladyboy cause he wanted us to write something but to our opinion he was quite annoying.. :D

While we were hanging around close by the main stage I went to buy some water for Pucca who wasn't feeling that well.. I went alone to the closest booth there and bought the water.. Then I colllided into this wanna be Ukrainian guy from UK. ;) He ended up spending the night with me and my friends cause he had lost his friends and hopefully because he enjoyed our company also. :D  We sat on the beach talking and also drinking once in a while. Before we noticed it was time to head back to our resort, it was 7.30 am and we hadn't even noticed the night go by.

My friends left for our resort but I decided to stay with this special guy. We stayed at the party for a little longer. The beach started to get emptier but still the hard core party animals (definitely not me! xD) stayed there. The sun was rising even higher and it was breakfast time. We spent the day at the beach or the walking street trying to haggle the prices down for me to get back to my resort.. Well, I hadn't really thought it through all the way since I didn't realize that no one wanted to drive just me back to my resort.. The boat rides were expensive and the taxis were asking so much.. I ended up giving my facebook to Steven and eventually we managed to haggle to taxi price to 900 BAHT.. It took my almost 90 minutes by taxi to get back to my resort..

Back at my resort I had tons of questions to answer while floating in the ocean. Some of our group had a huge hangover and we had fun laughing and teasing some of us.. After hanging a while on the beach we headed towards the near by water fall which ended up being a total disappointment! It wasn't even a waterfall.. Just water coming down on some near by hill.. Around 7 pm we ate at the resort's restaurant and I was so tired since I hadn't slept at all! Right after eating I had to go to bed, the others didn't stay up much longer after me.

Tuesday morning! 

On Tuesday morning I was dead tired even though I had a proper good night sleep.. I hang most of my morning in the hammock and my thoughts were constantly going to this man I met.. The previous day he had sent me a message on facebook that he would want to meet me on Koh Tao were accidentally both of us were going..

We ate again at the restaurant and were talking a lot about the service in there, it was so poor and slow! Mai Pen Rai is a simple phrase that sums up the attitudes in Thailand.  It basically means no worries or don't worry about it. And it definitely did just that! We went to eat early to have enough time to eat slowly before we had to leave. Eventually we almost had to grab the food with us to make it to the taxi.. The taxi journey felt so long once again. Me, Marie and Lea went to the beach next to the harbour after the taxi journey was over. When all the others left I stayed alone for couple of more hours and I went for a strawberry juice and update my friends back home that I was still alive after the party. I quite enjoyed being alone. :)

 

Then It was time for me to head towards the boat back to Koh Tao. Back home in Finland one of my client is Thai and her friend lives in Koh Tao. So I had sent her a message on facebook and she had offered me to stay at her place for the night! :) Back to Koh Tao and towards relaxed days on the beach!! :)