Day - 15,16 Leaving Cambodia to our new home in Thailand

Railay
 The mission trip is over and now we have 10 days before we can get back home due to flight blackouts. We decided to make it out to Thailand since it sits adjacent to Cambodia. We  learned that we shouldn't wear any Cambodian clothing in Thailand because Cambodia is harboring their ex- prime minister right now. Nick had to buy some abercrombie polos before we left. 2 for 8 dollars! The treck to Thailand took a while. Before leaving Cambodia at 5 pm we one last time ate at Dr. Khauv's aunts house where she filled us up to the brim with a four course meal. It had soup, eggs, pickled veggies, stewed pork, and prawns (yes we were spoiled). I wanted to get some money before we left to Thailand so I walked out of the Aunts house where she had security guards and was told to get on the back of a motorcycle. SWEET! We zigzaged through town until we stopped at an ATM! I had never driven blindly through so many intersections before... What a rush. Once we said our goodbyes to Cambodia we boarded our plane to Bangkok (only an hour flight) where we saw one of the largest airports in the world! It was 4 stories high!! We then took another hour flight to Phucket; a small semi island on the coast of Thailand. Here we spent the night at a seaside cottage on the beach. It sounds nicer than it was... We were out in the boonies and slept in single room huts which barely fit a queensize bed on the floor. Oh yeah and we also had a fan that came in handy. I couldn't complain because we were on the beach!! 
  The next morning we woke up and strolled along the white sand beaches before meeting up with Nate in a taxi. Interesting story here... Nate flew from Seim Reap straight to Bangkok where he was unable to get a plane flight to Phucket. He was then unable to get a bus but he was able to get a rental car! This is peak season for Thailand because of new years where 80,000 people join together on an island for the full moon party... Don't think we are going to do that. So yes, after Nate drove 11 hours, he finally met us at the seaside cottage in a luxury van taxi.  From here we drove 2 hours to a coast town and then took a boat to Railay Beach. The ride was insane because they drive on the other side or the road here. That freaked us out at first!
  The views of Railay from the water taxi were breathtaking. This small town of 500 people is surrounded by 200m limestone cliffs which fall directly into the water. The only access point is by boat.  We were shocked and at a loss for words by the beauty of Railay as we pulled up to it's secluded beach.  We were met by a nice man who loaded all of our bags onto a dolly and wheeled us to our villa for the week. 
  Our villa has three separate huts about 12 feet off the ground surrounded by a large deck. Two huts are rooms with outdoor showers and bathrooms while the other hut is a kitchen and familyroom with two couches/beds. Every door opens up to let air draft through the villa. We are surrounded by monster cliffs and are only a few hundred feet from the beach.  There is a lot of wildlife here including the worlds smallest monkey! Yes MONKEY!
  It was 1pm here so we still had a full day of adventure ahead of us. Railay Beach is secluded which means sky high prices and no markets. So we paid someone to take a taxi to the closest city where they would then take a bus to a local market. They should drop off our order at 8am tommorrow morning. Railay also has no police in the town so the locals have some interesting rules here.  We decided that we would grab lunch which was delicious and then head straight to the beach! The beach was perfect. It's soft white sands led into the 80 degree water that had no waves, just smooth rolling water. It was like a gigantic swimming pool. Now we could finally relax. 
  I was told by Erin Jackson who was here a month ago for a teaching mission trip that I had to meet a man named Nat at the bamboo bar. So that night we headed there after dinner where we waited for him to show up. He was such a nice guy and sported dreads making him look black even though was Thai. He told me all about Erin and how they met and when he saw me and my smile it reminded him of her. He told me about island culture and how he was going to be a DJ at the full moon party for new years. He was only going to be here for a few days before he left but he wanted to take us around the island and show us the best spots. So we made plans to meet up around 10 the next morning. The rest of the night we went to the bars and relaxed as we saw Thai kickboxing and a woman walking with a large snake that we could play with. 
We met a lot of people out here from all over, even Sweeden and had a great time keeping up conversations. All and all I think we are going to have such a great time here in paradise. Oh and I forgot to mention that right now I'm laying in bed under mosquito nets trying to sleep. Kinda weird but fun nonetheless hahaha.