Day 9 - Marriott Phuket Beach Club

Saturday - another lazy day by the pool. Today we stayed by the big pool that has elephants spraying water. These elephants are of course not the live ones, but made of clay. The pool is beautiful as everything else here at the resort. When I get back I will post more pictures from the hotel and the resort. Tonkow came by at lunch time, and as we do every day, we bought bananas for her. Every day before she wanted her bananas peeled, but today for some reason she wanted them with the peel on! If she was given a "naked" banana she took it with her trunk but then tossed it to the ground and even stepped on them! I suppose a girl has the right to change her mind - variety is the spice of life and obviously even elephants learn this early. When she had had her fill of bananas it was time for her swim in the ocean.

I haven't mentioned before that when you are by the pool there are some very nice little surprises. Every now and then the staff comes by with ice cold wet wash cloths scented with lemongrass. It is a lovely smell and that cold towel feels like heaven on a hot day! They are also presented very nicely rolled to look like a lotus blossom. Your glass is continuously filled with ice water and during the day you are offered (at no extra cost), little drinks like pina colada and other exotic fruit drinks (all ice cold of course), little baskets with freshly cut tropical fruits and even some little tidbits from the restaurants on the premises. In other words, we really are in the lap of luxury!

When we had had enough of the pool it was already after 5 pm so we decided to go up to the lobby and once again watch the sunset dance at the infinity pool while having a large glass of pomelo juice. If you ever have a chance - try it! It is soo good!

From the lobby infinity pool we continued to Happy Hour at the blue pool where there is a guy singing and playing the guitar really well. He mixes new and old tunes and the guests often join in. Here we were also treated to a nice sunset. I have posted the last song and the sunset on http://www.youtube.com/maggsimm tonight. By this time we were really in need of a shower so we returned to our apartment, showered and changed and went to dinner at La Cuicina, an Italian restaurant here at the resort. We all enjoyed our meals!

Tomorrow we're out on new adventures!