life of thai

The weather the past couple days has been somewhat less than desireable, so I have been keeping myself occupied with non-beach related activities. A couple days ago a woman from my guesthouse and I took a lovely motorcycle ride up to the 'Big Buddha,' which is, as far as i know, the largest buddha statue in Thailand and is located on the top of the mountain. I had been planning to hike up but couldnt resist the motorbike.. On the way back our plans of heading for some shopping in Patong kind of got rained out so it's probably better I didnt attemp the hike. I got a pedicure instead :)
Yesterday my one and only plan was to find some delicious banana pancakes, however when I walked outside my hostel, I found that three other travellers were about to be picked up for a snorkelling trip. Fun! So I jumped on that bandwagon and we all took a speedboat to this island south of Phuket and spent a lovely afternoon snorkelling. A bit of a step down from diving but still really awesome! In the evening we hit up this totally rad, hippy, reggae bar and got to listen to some live music and hang out. Ill probably be back there soon.. Well hope all is well back home and I am half-heartedly working on finding a way to get some pictures up, but the weather is finally picking up so my time will probably be lost to the beach..
Take Care,
Phoebs