Phuket Wedding

If you have been following my blog for a while you will know that the whole starting point for my current trip was to attend my cousins wedding in Phuket.

After spending two days in Kuala Lumpur I took a short flight to Thailand and I landed in beautiful Phuket.This is the hotel/guesthouse I stayed at, the owner was a Swedish guy called Lars, he was really great. Helped me out with ordering a shuttle for the wedding and asked each day if I needed any help (I think he was a little worried as I was a woman travelling alone). If you ever want a place to stay near Patong Beach I would recommend the Lanna Thai Hotel.

There was a market across the road from my hotel, the market itself wasn't that interesting to me (although I visited quite early, it might have become more interesting later on) but I liked the little alters outside the building.

My first morning in Phuket with my cousins wedding happening at 3pm, I just had breakfast, a bit of a look around the immediate area and a foot massage.

My camera was not playing fair on the day of the wedding, I think maybe it was the heat and humidity. My old camera didn't work so well when we were in Hanoi and it was really hot and humid there too. Here is one of the photos I did manage to take just after the wedding, my cousin Mel with the baby elephant that was included in the family photo - he was pretty cool, when the photos were over we got to feed him bananas.

We travelled from the wedding ceremony to the river reception on these little boats - travelling in style.When dusk hit we all had the chance to let a paper lantern go into the sky - it was pretty amazing.
Finally here's the table I sat at for the reception - it was a very international wedding with friends and family attending from New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Britain and of course Thailand.I do have a lot more photos to share from both Phuket and KL and I hope to post more soon - tomorrow morning I am off to Singapore bright and early, I am spending 5 days there before heading back home to Wellington.

Girls Afternoon Out!

I hadn't caught up with my friend Emi for AGES and seen as Rich tends to study on Saturdays I thought it was time for us to have a wee girly catch up.

When I met Emi she gave me this totally rad hokey pokey ice cream - when she bought is she thought it was a necklace. It turns out its actually a decoration but it won't be for long in my crafty hands. Its going to make a great necklace!
Just as awesome as the necklace was the envelope it came it - creepy kawaii to the extreme. I'm usually a zombie kind of girl - but look at Frankie - he is so adorable. First up we went and had a manicure at a little salon near my work. I kind of had my heart set on purple sparkly polish - but they didn't have any. So I got this blue colour instead. It's still pretty rad.

After the visit to the salon we decided to head down to the waterfront to grab some gelato. When we were approaching the gelato place we noticed a whole crowd of people near the water looking at something. We both thought that was a little strange so we went to investigate, and this is what we found... Its a fur seal! It was an amazing creature and we were only meters away from it. Such an amazing experience. We decided the seal must have been a boy - as there were only women taking photos and there was some major posing going on!

Just in case any of you were worried about the health of the seal the Department of Conservation had been along to check it out and all was well. After our seal friend swam away we finally got our gelato - I had vanilla and another flavour that tasted like ferrer roche (my favourite chocolate).

When Emi was dropping me home we stopped off at The Warehouse she needed some lightbulbs, and I ended up buying two pairs of shoes (they were 50% off!).