a special guest

of all the people who were not placed in the bkk, the ones i was most upset about not being near were the kiwis, claire and kerry. (in case you dont know, they are called kiwis because of the bird from new zealand, which is where they hail from)

they were always up for a party and were honestly two of the sweetest people ever. when we found they would be down south, we were bummed. as ive explained, we cant really take vacations and traveling down there takes more than a weekend. except for a brief stint at the full moon party on new years, we hadnt seen them since we left phuket.

but this past weekend, someone said that there would be a special guest on monday. usually, we do not venture out or drink on mondays...we reserve that for later in the week when its free and a little more essential to our functioning. but when we heard it was for claire, who would be in town for possibly only one night, we jumped.

then we found out her flight didnt get in until around 9 at night, which meant she wouldnt have been to the city until at least 10 at the earliest, and THAT was a little too much to handle for a monday night. thankfully, she ended up staying in the city tuesday night as well, and so we did an impromptu meet up on good old khao san road and had an amazing time. it was probably the largest group we have gotten together since the first weekend or so. we had dinn

er and went out, but didnt stay out too too late. learned my lesson last time.

it was that night that we realized that people start leaving NEXT WEEK. super sad. so tonight, we are having our first of our "last nights out" (because for those of us that are staying, we will be celebrating before each departure, each one harder than the one before) and hoping that we will all see each other again at some point in our lives.