A day on the beach

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Our resort is right on a beach with miles and miles of pristine white sand. The water is very warm (30+) so the conditions are perfect for a day at the beach...

Meanwhile in Iowa

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Change is coming

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Go Barack GO!

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Go south!

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We had a long drive today. All the way from Hua Hin to Phuket - about 10 hours... Luckily the roads are fine and the Thai (believe it or not) are reasonable drivers. Maybe because of Buddhism? On our way we drove through a huge national park with mountains that resembled the Karst mountains of Guilin (China).

Found in Hua Hin

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Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park

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The name Khao Sam Roi Yot can be translated into "The Mountain With
Three Hundred Peaks", a series of magnificent grey limestone mountains,
which rise dramatically from the Gulf of Thailand. In it is a cave,
Tam Phraya Nakhon Cave This cave has two chambers, each one with the roof collapsed. It is close by to Hua Hin, so made a perfect day trip. We came by canals with fresh jumbo prawns and had lunch there (total bill: 4 euro). The food was excellent!
It was a long and sometimes difficult climb to the cave, but worth it. On the way we saw some monkeys. 

Finally: I can Digg. (uh.. dugg)

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As I mentioned in this post a half year ago I bought two digg counters from adafruit. Merel put her mind to it and put the kits together. And: tada! they work!.
Thanks Merel :-)

Resting day II

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Happy New Year!

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Let's be nice and say that they really tried. The guys from AKA organized a new years party at the pool.  A dinner with  caviar, oysters, foie gras etc etc. A set of party stuff (funny heads, confetti, rose petals and... a band.
The singer tried to sing classic jazz, her voice wasn't that bad but if only she could have understand english. She now sung a phonetic version of each song like "Smoke goes in yor Eggs", "Stranglers in the Nite" and "Jester Day".
We went to bed early and were vast asleep when 2008 started.
Happy New Year!

Elephants revisited

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In Hua Hin it is possible to rent an elephant and ride it your self, so we did and it was fun and not that difficult.

Pala-U waterfall

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Pala-U



We walked/climbed up the mountain of the Pala-U waterfall. It is on the border with Burma in the middle of the jungle. It has 15 levels but because of the border you cannot go further that level 6. It was a hard climb, but rewarding as we saw so many (and many kinds) butterflies we never saw before in the wild.