What's on your agenda for today?

We are having "snow showers" Which is a mix of rain and snow.. and snow covering the grass, but not sticking to the streets which are just wet.. it's to warm for it to accumulate.
 

GeorgiaXplant said:
Ooooh! I'm so excited. Sunshine, salt air, tropical paradise. Enjoy every single second!

Raining here. It was supposed to be cold this morning with a front passing through. Guess it hasn't finished "passing through" because it's 61F again. "They" rarely get it right.

Going shopping with my daughter this morning.
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Thanks Georgia! It's about 30C here, rain and thunderstorms off and on. Manager said it's rained a lot lately. Well...it is the rainy season but normally tapers off mid-December. At least it's warm rain but it does mean more mosquitoes.

Got most of our stuff unpacked and put where it belongs. We left a big crate of household and personal items from our stay here last winter. We have far too many sandals!
 
Well, it's nearly 4pm here, so must be 4am in the eastern US. Finished our shopping at the super Tesco mall and have all the household, etc items we should need. Joined the gym at the resort which is 0.6 miles down the road. I'll be there when it opens at 7am tomorrow. Since I'm no longer 'in transit' where food and drink rules don't apply, I'm behaving myself. Don't want to end up wearing moo moos by the time we leave!!

Think we might buy a couple of cheap bikes. Saw some decent ones at Tesco for about £60/$88. Won't ride in heavy traffic areas though. Too many motorscooters who use the hard shoulder.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Tesco? Is that a place like Costco or Sam's Club?
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Tesco is the biggest supermarket chain in the UK. It's similar to those Tesco's but has quite a few items written in Thai only, or in Thai and English. It's a super store so you can buy most things - we bought a fan, scale, ankle weights, yoga mat, will buy bikes, groceries of course. You can buy tvs, any electronics, clothes. This one is in a mall so has many shops and restaurants. I was surprised last winter to see a entire aisle with nothing but sauces - soy, fish, oyster, etc etc. The chemist shop just outside the Tesco is the best one as the clerks are very helpful and have excellent English. I was surprised last year to see they had a KFC, Dairy Queen, etc etc. Has our favourite coffee shop as well.

There is another Tesco Mall that also has a cinema and has at least one English language film on at any time.

Island info:

http://www.kosamui.com/
 
Wonderful link, Annie. Not at all like the pictures my Thia friends send me or where friends that have gone to Thailand have stayed. Very modern, yet Asian. Tourist based? A wonderful way to escape the winter. ENJOY ! ! !
 
ndynt said:
Wonderful link, Annie. Not at all like the pictures my Thia friends send me or where friends that have gone to Thailand have stayed. Very modern, yet Asian. Tourist based? A wonderful way to escape the winter. ENJOY ! ! !
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This island is touristy but not in all areas. Lots of areas that are very quiet and uncrowded. Our area is quiet, but some areas are very touristy and crowded. The restaurants we prefer are the ones run by Thais and their menus are mainly traditional Thai. Lots of other restaurants if we want non-Thai food which I do like occasionally.

My very favourite though is the one where we'll go for my birthday in Feb. We'll book a package that includes a 3 hour boat and snorkel trip, followed by shower at the restaurant, and a 6 or 7 course Thai dinner, and taxi home.

http://www.thevirgincoastsamui.com/

http://www.thevirgincoastsamui.com/the-menu/

Birthday boat and dinner

http://www.thevirgincoastsamui.com/longtail-boat-excursion/
 
I just thought of what to do when the laundry is done...strap on my jet pack and zip over to Thailand for dinner and a stroll on the beach with Ameriscot. We'll take pictures:)
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
I just thought of what to do when the laundry is done...strap on my jet pack and zip over to Thailand for dinner and a stroll on the beach with Ameriscot. We'll take pictures:)
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Okay. Sounds good! :cool:

Guess I should be putting all this in my Diary here instead of hogging the agenda thread. :D
 
Another "winter" day in Georgia. It's sunny and 45F now and supposed to be about 60F today. Fine. Maybe I'll work in the garden for a while this morning. The foliage from the bulb flowers needs to be cut back and some leaves cleaned out of the flower beds.

Yesterday first thing in the morning it was warmer in my hometown 1200 miles north of us than it was here, and at bedtime the temp was the same as ours. El Nino at work.
 
Hope we're over our jetlag now. We actually slept until 10am. Short rain shower today but otherwise lots of sunshine. So I finally got into the pool. So warm and refreshing and relaxing.
 
I've been in So Calif for a few days now helping my daughter after her surgery. My son-in-law has been home though and he's been doing everything so far. I did get to load and unload the dishwasher a few times. He goes to work tomorrow and I'll be doing more. She's like her dad and recovering real fast. My husband is waiting as long as he can to come down as the big city bores him real fast. Tomorrow is his BD and they are all planning on him being here and he's hoping to get to wait another day or two so we'll see how it goes. I don't know what I'm going to do today but I don't like to stay holed up in the guest room very long or they'll think I'm anti-social.
 
Linda said:
So beautiful and relaxing. Do you ever go out in one of those long skinny boats? I know that's probably not the correct name for them. Do you or your husband ever fish there? My husband would probably be out on the water all the time.
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We went out on the 'long boats' twice. Went snorkeling both times and hubby and his brother tried fishing and caught one small one. We are on long boats in the photos - the one with the foot and the beer is me on a long boat. We'll go out on one a couple of times while here, one time will be on my birthday.
 
Went to the gym this morning. Took the laundry down to the office which will be returned to me by this evening. Going to the post office today to get stamps and mail all my postcard/xmas cards. Probably stop for coffee. Swim in the pool or sea later. Or both. Hubby is sitting on the bedroom porch in his underwear (it's a bit enclosed) reading The Guardian on his kindle. Life is good.
 
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