On what turned out to be our last night in chiang mai we were a little unsure of what to do as Jack's boxing match had been called off (much to his delight). Driving around on the mopeds we suddenly thought of going to the cinema to see the new batman movie. We followed through on this idea and went to see it.. after the movie we headed back to the hotel with the bikes and then decided on going back to the roof top bar. A place that Jack was unsure of whether or not he was welcome after the previous night's antics!
We took a short tuk tuk ride there and ventured up the many stairs, of course taking our shoes off at the bottom. The bar woman did indeed recognise Jack but made it clear there was no hard feelings. When we went to get a seat we bumped into two girls that we had got to know the night before and so we sat with them and drank away. 3 hours later and we found ourselves in a tuk tuk on the way to Chiang Mai's club.. Lucky's! A litte like a club back home.. the music was awesome and everyone was loving it.
We headed home together and I went off to bed.. waking up to find Jack had not been to sleep. Instead he had gone out for a midnight drive on his moped. Obviously the next day I woke up feeling fresh and he didn't really wake up, causing me to have to take both mopeds back seperately across town. When this was all done I managed to get Jack out of bed as we had a flight to catch. The airport was 30 minutes away and we arrived in plenty of time allowing us to check in and get something to eat.
When waiting for the flight a message was read out saying it had been delayed until 7.30pm from 7.05pm. Unfortunately it wasn't until 7pm that I realised that was not our flight they were talking about and so we jumped up.. grabbed our stuff and made a dash for the gate making it in enough time. The flight was a mere 65 minutes, a lot different from the 12 hour coach ride we took to get from bangkok to chiang mai in the first place. When we arrived we took a taxi across town and went to the train station where we got a train to Chumpon.. a 7 hour ride was in front of us 
However the train ride wasn't that bad and we both managed to get a little bit of sleep only being disturbed by some Thai policemen who wanted to search people's bags. The man in front of me turned out to have quite a large knife in his possession.. something which the police merely slapped his wrists for. Finally we arrived in Chumpon where at 5.47am I was quite shocked to see life. People jumped on us immediately getting us to buy tickets for the high speed boat to Ko Tao. 550 baht and we got an air conditioned bus to the docks and the 1 hour and 30 minutes ferry ride.
A little after 8.30am we arrived at Ko Tao. The place was truly amazing, a another world entirely from up north. White sandy beaches and clear waters as far as the eye could see. We disembarked the ferry and we were immediately jumped on again by Thai's trying to get us to come and dive at their hotel.. offering free accommodation in the process. We took up the offer of a man I had chatted to on the boat who said we could do a fun dive and he would give us some accommodation. When we got to the resort it turned out that they had overbooked and because we weren't willing to give the guy 9000 baht to do our full course we were turned away.
5 minutes down the beach we managed to find a beach bungalow for rent for bout 1000 baht which in our current state we were more than happy to pay. The bungalow was metres from the sea and the view from the balcony was truly unbelievable. I tried not to sleep as I wanted to be able to sleep well at night. Jack on the other hand crashed out. I explored the island and bumped into a friend from uni in the process who told me the places to go before rushing off to get a boat back to the mainland.
Unable to function properly anymore I grabbed some lunch and headed back where I joined Jack in crashing out for a few hours before getting up and heading to dinner. Tom had told me to head to Lotus Bar where there would be fire dancers and loud music. The place was exactly this and we proceeded to dance the night away even venturing into the sea ankle deep at points. When the music was switched off the people that we had been dancing with knew a club that we could go to... The Castle.
The club was a weird and wonderful place and we both proceeded to dance the night (I managed to break my toe in the process!) away once more before catching a pick up taxi the whole way home. Unfortunately we had failed to get the name of our hotel and so we vaguely remembered the name of the resort we had gone to initially. So we were dropped there and then had to somehow find our bungalow, which much to our joy we did! Hours later I woke up and strolled along the beach on what is another lovely day. I think more fire dancing is in order tonight and we intend on learning the name of our hotel to prevent any future confusion!
