Correction on the phone number. Here is the mobile:
043 997 4604
And yes ... drop the zero when you dial this number internationally
Here is the home number too - the reception is much better and we think that we will keep it for the year, so use THIS ONE.
The number is 011 61 89072 0508
Love,
cristen :o)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Communication
Cristen Carson
John Kelly
9A Walmsley Street
Esperance , WA 6450
Australia
cristencarson@yahoo.ca
jesterjohnkelly@hotmail.com
Mobile: 043 3997 4604
You MAY need to drop the 0 at the beginning and have only the 43 at the beginning, we're not really sure?
SKYPE - We have it!! If you do please add us: cristen.carson is the username and it's used with my emial addy: cristencarson@yahoo.ca
Hope to hear from you all shortly!!
Love,
cristen :o)
John Kelly
9A Walmsley Street
Esperance , WA 6450
Australia
cristencarson@yahoo.ca
jesterjohnkelly@hotmail.com
Mobile: 043 3997 4604
You MAY need to drop the 0 at the beginning and have only the 43 at the beginning, we're not really sure?
SKYPE - We have it!! If you do please add us: cristen.carson is the username and it's used with my emial addy: cristencarson@yahoo.ca
Hope to hear from you all shortly!!
Love,
cristen :o)
Saturday, January 17, 2009
PICTURES!!!!
Okay, so here are a TONNE! But I've set up the links seperately, so hopefully you can slowly go through them if you're interested. Also, I haven't really filtered at all, so I apologise if there are doubles and triple and.......We purchased a new camera before we left so we've been playing a bit while here.
Anyhow, hope you enjoy!
Christmas at the Kelly's
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/ChristmasWithJohnSFamily?feat=directlink
First few days, Bangkok, flying to Ko Samui and then our time on Ko Phangnga for 5 days.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/KoPhangngaThailandAndEtras?feat=directlink
Ko Sok National Park over New Years
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/KoSokNationalParkOverNewYears?feat=directlink
We are off to Hong Kong tomorrow, the 18th and are there until the 21st. We'll update you all soon!! Be well and we send our best.
cristen and John :o)
Anyhow, hope you enjoy!
Christmas at the Kelly's
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/ChristmasWithJohnSFamily?feat=directlink
First few days, Bangkok, flying to Ko Samui and then our time on Ko Phangnga for 5 days.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/KoPhangngaThailandAndEtras?feat=directlink
Ko Sok National Park over New Years
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cristencarson11/KoSokNationalParkOverNewYears?feat=directlink
We are off to Hong Kong tomorrow, the 18th and are there until the 21st. We'll update you all soon!! Be well and we send our best.
cristen and John :o)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The last few adventurous days...
Hello!!
Hopefully you all can ready this!! Thanks to Deb who gave me the heads up that the site was crashing. I think I disabled something to help out. Thanks Deb!! You tech expert you.
John and I are writing from Bangkok. It is 7:48am and we recently got off a sleeper train (which I hardly slept on) from Sukhothai, Thailand where we motorbiked and walked through ancient Buddhist ruins and temples. All of which were incredibly spectacular. Very impressive. I think both are world Heritage sites by UNESCO. http://www.thailandsworld.com/index.cfm?p=120 Check it out. http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/thai_article/2211_sukhothai/sukhothai.html
At one point, we were walking around an area that was supposedly used for pottery, where they fired pottery in the 13th century. There were pieces of pottery EVERYWHERE!!! They were scattered all over the ground and you could tell that not all the sites had been unearthed. Incredible. We took a sample! Hopefully the gods won't be too upset at us.
The last time I email I think we were on Ko Phi Phi, which is were the beach was filmed. It was beautiful, however, we were quite mifted by the tourists. There were several twenty year olds that were drunk ALL the time, treating the locals like shit, and acting blatantly ridiculous. I was so disappointed, and realize now, why in that part of the country, tourists are moved around like cattle. We get lugged from one place to the other, with limited smiles and not much interaction, which of course, I LOVE, and miss when travelling. So I was disappointed in the sense that some people represent the tourists that way.
Anyhow, we jumped on a boat and headed to the mainland where we then got on an overnight bus to Bangkok. HORRIBLE!! I did not sleep and we arrived in Bangkok SO early and the trains were all sold out to Chiang Mai and I had NO interest in getting on a second overnight bus, so we flew! It took about 2 hours when it all came down to it, when the train is 14! So it worked out well.
We were pickd up at the airport, with a man with a sign that said JOHN in large block letters. He drove us to Winners Inn, a shady, but clean Thai hotel in Chiang Mai. We slept when we arrived and then roamed around for a portion of the day. The following day we booked a tour to some waterfalls and some temples. It was great, but I dislike tours. I'm a do it myselfer, so I wanted to rent a motorbike and tour around. John was not really FOR this idea, so then next day we walked the city and the following day we hired a tuk tuk driver for the day, who drove us around to an elephant camp where we watched elephants perform various tasks, like painting, playing socceer, etc. Yes, I know. We headed to some botanical gardens, more waterfalls and some temples. The day cost us about $10 in a hired driver!! Incredible. We're not sure how they live off the money. And we had to pay for our expenses at the various locations, but it was REALLY cheap.
Each night in Chaing Mai we visited the night bazaar which is a section of a large street that is dedicated to people having little booths and shops set up around the road, so we did a bit of shopping. We haven't really purchased as much as I thought we would because some things that I do want are not much cheaper than we could get them for in Canada and then there is the travel factor to take into account. How do we carry these things around? Or do we ship them? Neither of us were bothered to really worry about these questions enough to purchase much. And also, our condo right now is so small!! We'd just be buying stuff to buy it and we wouldn't beable to place it in "our" house for a year. No need.
Anyhow, the following day, we woke up early and were taken to the bus station to get to Sukhothai, Thailand where we stayed at a little quaint, family run guest house, for a night. We rented a motor bike on Wednesday and drove to the Sukhothai Historical Park and scooted around everywhere. It was a great day and the ruins were incredible. On Thursday we also rented a motor bike and rode 1.5 hours North to another Historical Park which is set in a beautiful forested area and the area itself seems untouched. We felt like the only people there. The bike ride was part of the adventure too and was fun! Our butts were sore though. We scooted back the 1.5 hours and arrived at the guest house, ate, picked up our bags, and took the bus to "somehwere" where we got the sleeper train to Bangkok. The "somewhere" town we arrived in had a little bar, and because we had a few hours to kill, I went and purchased a bottle of wine and we used the swiss army to cork it, but I broke the top off the bottle!!! There were little glass shards everywhere and the wine slipt a bit, but we also couldn't recork the bottle, so we had to drink the whole thing!!! It was quite an entertaining situation to say the least.
And so here we are now, in Bangkok at 8:37am now, waiting for our room to be ready so we can crash a little. We have two days here, today and tomorrow and then we fly on the 18th to Hong Kong. We are there until the 21st, and then it's off to perth!! Jennie's parents are waiting our arrival and are looking forward to them taking care of us for a few days.
We get he laptop back today too, so I will download our pics to it and then put them online.
We love you all very much and miss you lots!!!
Love the emails we are receiving from you all as well. Brings us warmth each day. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE you all!!
cristen :o)
Hopefully you all can ready this!! Thanks to Deb who gave me the heads up that the site was crashing. I think I disabled something to help out. Thanks Deb!! You tech expert you.
John and I are writing from Bangkok. It is 7:48am and we recently got off a sleeper train (which I hardly slept on) from Sukhothai, Thailand where we motorbiked and walked through ancient Buddhist ruins and temples. All of which were incredibly spectacular. Very impressive. I think both are world Heritage sites by UNESCO. http://www.thailandsworld.com/index.cfm?p=120 Check it out. http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/thai_article/2211_sukhothai/sukhothai.html
At one point, we were walking around an area that was supposedly used for pottery, where they fired pottery in the 13th century. There were pieces of pottery EVERYWHERE!!! They were scattered all over the ground and you could tell that not all the sites had been unearthed. Incredible. We took a sample! Hopefully the gods won't be too upset at us.
The last time I email I think we were on Ko Phi Phi, which is were the beach was filmed. It was beautiful, however, we were quite mifted by the tourists. There were several twenty year olds that were drunk ALL the time, treating the locals like shit, and acting blatantly ridiculous. I was so disappointed, and realize now, why in that part of the country, tourists are moved around like cattle. We get lugged from one place to the other, with limited smiles and not much interaction, which of course, I LOVE, and miss when travelling. So I was disappointed in the sense that some people represent the tourists that way.
Anyhow, we jumped on a boat and headed to the mainland where we then got on an overnight bus to Bangkok. HORRIBLE!! I did not sleep and we arrived in Bangkok SO early and the trains were all sold out to Chiang Mai and I had NO interest in getting on a second overnight bus, so we flew! It took about 2 hours when it all came down to it, when the train is 14! So it worked out well.
We were pickd up at the airport, with a man with a sign that said JOHN in large block letters. He drove us to Winners Inn, a shady, but clean Thai hotel in Chiang Mai. We slept when we arrived and then roamed around for a portion of the day. The following day we booked a tour to some waterfalls and some temples. It was great, but I dislike tours. I'm a do it myselfer, so I wanted to rent a motorbike and tour around. John was not really FOR this idea, so then next day we walked the city and the following day we hired a tuk tuk driver for the day, who drove us around to an elephant camp where we watched elephants perform various tasks, like painting, playing socceer, etc. Yes, I know. We headed to some botanical gardens, more waterfalls and some temples. The day cost us about $10 in a hired driver!! Incredible. We're not sure how they live off the money. And we had to pay for our expenses at the various locations, but it was REALLY cheap.
Each night in Chaing Mai we visited the night bazaar which is a section of a large street that is dedicated to people having little booths and shops set up around the road, so we did a bit of shopping. We haven't really purchased as much as I thought we would because some things that I do want are not much cheaper than we could get them for in Canada and then there is the travel factor to take into account. How do we carry these things around? Or do we ship them? Neither of us were bothered to really worry about these questions enough to purchase much. And also, our condo right now is so small!! We'd just be buying stuff to buy it and we wouldn't beable to place it in "our" house for a year. No need.
Anyhow, the following day, we woke up early and were taken to the bus station to get to Sukhothai, Thailand where we stayed at a little quaint, family run guest house, for a night. We rented a motor bike on Wednesday and drove to the Sukhothai Historical Park and scooted around everywhere. It was a great day and the ruins were incredible. On Thursday we also rented a motor bike and rode 1.5 hours North to another Historical Park which is set in a beautiful forested area and the area itself seems untouched. We felt like the only people there. The bike ride was part of the adventure too and was fun! Our butts were sore though. We scooted back the 1.5 hours and arrived at the guest house, ate, picked up our bags, and took the bus to "somehwere" where we got the sleeper train to Bangkok. The "somewhere" town we arrived in had a little bar, and because we had a few hours to kill, I went and purchased a bottle of wine and we used the swiss army to cork it, but I broke the top off the bottle!!! There were little glass shards everywhere and the wine slipt a bit, but we also couldn't recork the bottle, so we had to drink the whole thing!!! It was quite an entertaining situation to say the least.
And so here we are now, in Bangkok at 8:37am now, waiting for our room to be ready so we can crash a little. We have two days here, today and tomorrow and then we fly on the 18th to Hong Kong. We are there until the 21st, and then it's off to perth!! Jennie's parents are waiting our arrival and are looking forward to them taking care of us for a few days.
We get he laptop back today too, so I will download our pics to it and then put them online.
We love you all very much and miss you lots!!!
Love the emails we are receiving from you all as well. Brings us warmth each day. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE you all!!
cristen :o)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Beaches and Islands
Hello all!!
John and I are currently on Ko Phi Phi, a small island off the Adaman coast in Thailand. If you've ever seen the movie "The Beach", a lot of it was filmed near this area and is famous because of that movie and because of all the coral reefs and little islands near by. It's beautiful but incredibly touristy. Almost too touristy, there is a higher ratio of tourists than local people for sure. However, we've booked a snorkelling trip for the day tomorrow and hope to see lots of fish and reef.
We arrived here today after several days on Railay, http://www.railay.com/railay/intro/intro.shtml a beautiful beach area lined with limestone cliffs hovering over the beaches. It was SO beautiful. The beach itself was rated as the number one beach in the world in 2005. It defenitely deserves the award. It was stunning. The sun sets were spectacular, the sand was white, the water was clear and warm. It was lovely. Our first two days there we crashed on the beach, thankful to get some sun rays after many clouded travel days, leading me to be quite frustrated with the weather gods. We subsequently got burnt, and decided to take the following day off from the beach. We booked a half day rock climbing trip for the morning and it was great! I'd never rock clmbed before, John had done a bit, but we tried and it was wicked. We are SO SO sore though! John's been suffering through a bit of traveller's illnesses as well, although he did push through the day and we later got some drugs for him from the local pharmacy. After our climbing adventure I left John in the room to rest up and I headed out trekking with a British girl I met. We walked around to some of the other beach areas and then I met back up with John for a massage. Very much needed after the rock climbing adventure.
John spent most of the next day in our hotel room feeling off, and I roamed around and beached it a bit more. We enjoyed our evenings with a bunch of other tourists we had met from our climbing adventures and had drinks and such by the beach.
We're enjoying our time a lot here. It seems like we are skipping school though, as we're both not use to being away from teaching at this time of the year for this length of time. It will hit us soon enough though.
Anyhow, I can't get the pics up right now. I'm sure I could spend a day doing it but the costs for internet aren't super cheap, so I do hope to upload them shortly. I hope all is well with everyone and enjoy what the new year brings!
Love and best wishes,
cristen and John :o)
John and I are currently on Ko Phi Phi, a small island off the Adaman coast in Thailand. If you've ever seen the movie "The Beach", a lot of it was filmed near this area and is famous because of that movie and because of all the coral reefs and little islands near by. It's beautiful but incredibly touristy. Almost too touristy, there is a higher ratio of tourists than local people for sure. However, we've booked a snorkelling trip for the day tomorrow and hope to see lots of fish and reef.
We arrived here today after several days on Railay, http://www.railay.com/railay/intro/intro.shtml a beautiful beach area lined with limestone cliffs hovering over the beaches. It was SO beautiful. The beach itself was rated as the number one beach in the world in 2005. It defenitely deserves the award. It was stunning. The sun sets were spectacular, the sand was white, the water was clear and warm. It was lovely. Our first two days there we crashed on the beach, thankful to get some sun rays after many clouded travel days, leading me to be quite frustrated with the weather gods. We subsequently got burnt, and decided to take the following day off from the beach. We booked a half day rock climbing trip for the morning and it was great! I'd never rock clmbed before, John had done a bit, but we tried and it was wicked. We are SO SO sore though! John's been suffering through a bit of traveller's illnesses as well, although he did push through the day and we later got some drugs for him from the local pharmacy. After our climbing adventure I left John in the room to rest up and I headed out trekking with a British girl I met. We walked around to some of the other beach areas and then I met back up with John for a massage. Very much needed after the rock climbing adventure.
John spent most of the next day in our hotel room feeling off, and I roamed around and beached it a bit more. We enjoyed our evenings with a bunch of other tourists we had met from our climbing adventures and had drinks and such by the beach.
We're enjoying our time a lot here. It seems like we are skipping school though, as we're both not use to being away from teaching at this time of the year for this length of time. It will hit us soon enough though.
Anyhow, I can't get the pics up right now. I'm sure I could spend a day doing it but the costs for internet aren't super cheap, so I do hope to upload them shortly. I hope all is well with everyone and enjoy what the new year brings!
Love and best wishes,
cristen and John :o)
Friday, January 2, 2009
Jungle Trekking and Fishing Villages
Hey all,
we are writing to you right now from a small fishing village in Phang Nga, home of "James Bond" Island and the famous Phang Nga Marine Park. We are the ONLY tourist in the little village it seems, but it's quite interesting. All the houses are on stilts above the ocean, over looking a limestone cliff. Very beautiful! We are staying one night and then we are off to tour the area by boat and canoe tomorrow where we can do some swimming and picture taking.
Yesterday we were in the Jungle!! We stayed at Ko Sok National park in a little jungle hut, equipt with mosquito netting and a small bathroom. We stayed three nights, had one day where we trekked through the jungle, walking for 15kms in TOTAL!! We saw some monkey's, spiders and fish, lots of waterfalls and swam a lot! It was great. Yesterday we did a boat tour of the lake in the park. It's 165 sq, kms large and it was incredibly beautiful. We had a guided trek through the rainforest and then we walked, in our bathing suits, through a cave in the limestone cliffs. It was INCREDIBLE. we all had flashlights and head laps and had to walk very carefully through the water so as not to trip over all the rocks. but it was beautiful! We had such a great time, and we were there with a family from Britain and a couple from Germany. We all ate New Years Dinner together and chatted before a well deserved sleep after such a long day.
We are having a great time, spending more money than we both thought we would, but it's all part of the experience. We love you all and miss you lots. We've been hoping to get to a phone but the time difference is 12 hours so it makes for calling difficult. We will shortly. We hope to be in a beachy spot called Railay shortly,, and stay for a few days where we will hopefully be able to get some laundry done and relax on the beach for a few days. We love you all, send New Year wishes for everyone and send our love over the ocean and through the clouds!!
Love and hugs!
cristen and John :o)
we are writing to you right now from a small fishing village in Phang Nga, home of "James Bond" Island and the famous Phang Nga Marine Park. We are the ONLY tourist in the little village it seems, but it's quite interesting. All the houses are on stilts above the ocean, over looking a limestone cliff. Very beautiful! We are staying one night and then we are off to tour the area by boat and canoe tomorrow where we can do some swimming and picture taking.
Yesterday we were in the Jungle!! We stayed at Ko Sok National park in a little jungle hut, equipt with mosquito netting and a small bathroom. We stayed three nights, had one day where we trekked through the jungle, walking for 15kms in TOTAL!! We saw some monkey's, spiders and fish, lots of waterfalls and swam a lot! It was great. Yesterday we did a boat tour of the lake in the park. It's 165 sq, kms large and it was incredibly beautiful. We had a guided trek through the rainforest and then we walked, in our bathing suits, through a cave in the limestone cliffs. It was INCREDIBLE. we all had flashlights and head laps and had to walk very carefully through the water so as not to trip over all the rocks. but it was beautiful! We had such a great time, and we were there with a family from Britain and a couple from Germany. We all ate New Years Dinner together and chatted before a well deserved sleep after such a long day.
We are having a great time, spending more money than we both thought we would, but it's all part of the experience. We love you all and miss you lots. We've been hoping to get to a phone but the time difference is 12 hours so it makes for calling difficult. We will shortly. We hope to be in a beachy spot called Railay shortly,, and stay for a few days where we will hopefully be able to get some laundry done and relax on the beach for a few days. We love you all, send New Year wishes for everyone and send our love over the ocean and through the clouds!!
Love and hugs!
cristen and John :o)
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