Thailand with Caca and Moagly

Dossing around Samui as been great but as always after a few weeks I start to get a bit bored. There isn’t really much to do on the island and, with it being off season, there aren’t too many tourist around to go and mingle with. So I was eagerly awaiting the pair.
Aka Caca and Aka Moagly arrived on the first day of November. The weather prior to their arrival had been perfect, cloudy and rainy enough to keep you going for a kip in the chest freezer with the sun just coming out enough each day to keep the tan on top form, but on their first night here we received a cyclone warning and the whole island was told not to leave their homes, great, so night one consisted of us sat round the pool devouring Vodka. Caca and moagly hadn’t seen one another for years so there was plenty of good chat.
It rained constantly. We just got used to it. On day 3 we braved the outdoors, although the weather was worst we headed for the nearest food shack, encouraged by our rumbling tummies. It was the most extreme weather I have ever seen, the roads were like rivers. Wading out of the shack, after our feed, Caca screamed behind me- let me just say that since they arrived they have been screaming at everything that moved so I barley flinched- I looked down just in time to see the snake/eel/ thingy brushing past my leg whilst it was being swept down stream, it makes me shiver just reliving the experience.
We tried not to let the weather get us down. The girls used it as an excuse to lie in and be lazy which they loved. And I headed to the shop and bought ingredients for a weeks worth of Pina Coladas. After 4 days we were Pina Colada-ered out so we headed for the Capital.

BANGKOK
To save a few bob we got the bus up to Bangkok. We booked the Ferry and the bus with a local travel company so that everything would be taken care of and we could just show up and be took straight to an hotel in Bangkok, easy peasy- yeah right! (The best laid plans of mice and men and all that).
An organised taxi picked us up an hour late and took us to our ferry. We didn’t know what ferry or where to pick our tickets up and the driver spoke no English. He dropped us at a travel agent near the ferry terminal, off loaded our bags and drove off. The agent was the wrong one, she pointed us to a shop on the next block. Of which the woman behind the desk informed us we had missed our ferry. After much umming and arring, lot’s of phone calls and attempting to charge us again (I don’t fall Thais ripping me off anymore) they told us to come back in an hour.
Long story slightly shortened- 3 buses, 1 boat, 3 dirty toilets, 1 plate of rice and 18 hours later we were booted off a bus at 6am somewhere in Bangkok. We wandered around and asked directions til we found khaosan Road (the place to be) and stayed there a couple of nights.