Phuket and the Internet

Sorry for not blogging the last few days.  I have not had access to "free wifi".  Our hotel in Phuket charges $5/hour or $10 a day!  We've had access to wifi for me to check e-mail at dinner, but that was about it.

I'm now writing from the "smaller" airport in Bangkok while we wait for our connecting flight from Phuket to Chiang Mai.

Here are some photos of what we did the last few days in Phuket.

Our hotel, Kata Beach Resort and Spa

Private access to Kata Beach from our hotel.  The waves were pretty rough... too rough to swim in, but perfect for surfing!

We watched a snake show and Wil decided to be a part of the show!

  We joined a tour to visit James Bond Island and some neighbouring caves.

 

 

It was during our tour that I realized how much Thailand depends on tourism... I actually began to feel awful realizing that I was destroying their natural ecosystem. There are shops, toilets, food and plastic where they don't belong!  There I am, preaching how we destroying our planet... and here I am participating with so many tourists creating an unsustainable condition and stress on the Thailand environment! 

I know on this trip I am more acutely aware of what the "local" standards are versus the "foreign" standards.  This is reminiscent from my previous mission trip to Cambodia two years ago... 

Back to my primary purpose for coming to Thailand, becoming pregnant.  To say that I have not been thinking about my belly would be false.  It has constantly been on my mind. I feel extremely bloated and fat. These drugs are definitely doing a number on me. I know that I have been praying to leave this to God and I am trying to, but it's difficult.  I keep freaking myself out, thinking that these embryos won't implant and my period will come. It's happened before...

5 more days before my blood test back at the IVF Clinic in Bangkok. Hopefully I won't see any blood until my blood test...