Mooning at Ko Pha-Ngan

Last night we went over by speed boat to another island for a Full Moon Party. We left our island at 7 in the evening and the first boat to take us back to the hotel was going to be 3 in the morning, so we knew it was giong to be a full on night.

So we went by speed boat - which did in fact speed. We were sat right at the front of the boat and as it flew over the waves we would lift out of our seats, at this stage i decided that there was not a chance i was going to get drunk at this party as there was now way i could get home by speed boat without being sick. When we got to the island the boat stopped so far from the beach we had to slide off the front of it and wade through the thigh deep water. Simon being the mountain goat that he is pretty much jumped of the boat and spend most of the evening with completely soaking shorts and undies.

Our first stop was somewhere to eat where luckily for me, they took that long to bring the food over i got to watch 2 shows of Friends on the tele. Next stop to even it out we went in a bar that had Family Guy on, which was extremely unfortunate because the 2 shows it was showing, we had watched the previous evening on the laptop.

At this stage the partys on the beach had really started to liven up and we spent the majority of the evening people watching getting pissed and falling over but still clutching their alcohol buckets.

The music was pumping out from about 10 different clubs on the beach and you could walk from one in to another watching people dance, only at one place did we really stop and listen to the old skool music before moving on people watching. As the night progressed more and more people were using the sea as a toilet, or using the beach as a bed. At one part of the beach there was a safe bed zone, ie a cornered of area that you could safely sleep. This was starting to get very busy.

At one stage whilst sat down on the rugs on the beach, a bunch of lady boys came and sat in front of us and were obviously perving at a bunch of english guys with their tops of. At one stage they got a picture all together but then when the lady boys tried to talk to the guys they hastely moved away. In another bar Simon saw a very drunk boy kissing a ladyboy and it was like oh he is so going to regret that tomorrow morning. hahaha

Simon had his head painted with a yellow mohican style strip which glowed in the dark and i got some red lit up horns, it helped us to find each other and Simon did look very cool.

By the end of the night after i had done a quick shop (to buy the souvenier t-shirt) and Simon had watched a girl crawl along the floor trying to hide under a shop stand and then wee'd herself whilst her boyfriend finally decided that giving her another drink probably wasnt the best idea. We decided to sit near our speed boat and try and get home. We managed to get on the 3 oclock speed boat not after having to wade through the water to my waist and fight the other 50 odd people trying to get on the boat as well. Highly amusing but hard work trying to keep the camera out of the water and being glad that neither me or Si were very drunk.

The speed boat back is one of the most terrifying journeys i have ever had, in that again we sat at the front and at some stages we were lifted out of our seats, and then it would bash down into the water. He had to slow down at some stages as the water was so rough. It didnt help that i had my hair washed and straightened at the hairdressers earlier and after the boat trip it was like a big ball of knots and Simon had spent most of the journey having it slapped against his face. hhahaaha