Day 4: Happy New Years Peeps!!!!!!!

OMG! Happy New Years everyone!

Kema and I just got back from the Full Moon Party; which is the place to party for New years! It was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced in my entire life; thus far. The fact that I'm attempting to blog is beyond me. But in truth, it is something that everyone-who can-should experience; words can not describe the fullfilment of brining in the News Years with about 35,000 from all over the world. This News Years and full moon party was extra special only because it is the first time in along time-35 years-that the island has had a full moon during a Full Moon party. Therefore, we were a part of a little island history.
NEway....we spent majority of the day lonunging beachside, we indulged in a Thai massage; which was amazing btw and we chilled with the crew.

It's about 4am January 1, 2010 and we are going to the National Park later today; like 7:30 am to Kyaking. Yeah, thats right in about 3hrs we will be up and at it again.........yes, we are "doing the most" but you only live once! And we are in Thailand who knows when we'll ever get this opportunity again. By the time we leave we will be exhuasted.

Well, that's all lads....until next time....HAPPY NEW YEARS! We'll keep you posted...PEACE and we LOVE the HELL out of you guys!!!!

A taste of True Paradise: Ko Samui, Thailand

Hey Guys:

I know it been a minute since we last blog-it feels like forever-but we didn't forget about you all...
Today is the second day on the island of Ko Samui. Currently, it's 7pm December 30, 2009. Today has been an adventure and there's so much STUFF that we want to share with you guys, but so little time. First, our resort is really cute and intimate we know all the staff and they know and LOVE us! The girls at the front Pin, Tang and Bing are the sweetest and have been enjoying us as much as we are enjoying them. We've even adopted a taxi driver name Bob that takes us everywhere; he's the best! He gives us that true native experience; by making what we call "bob stops" where he'll make a stop at a store to get cigs, get gas or takes us on an unscheduled tour of one of the beach's as he take us to/from our designations.

We had breakfast at the resort this morning and I got the bright idea to rent motor scooters and head to Chaweng Beach; which is suppose to be the "it" beach. Kema wasn't to keen on the moter scooter idea (her face spoke a thousand words), but I convinced her that it would be FUN, an ADVENTURE and EXCITING and she caved and wanted to rent a scooter too, but our girls at the front said "ABSOLUTELY NOT"! they could see the fear in her eyes!!! Being the sales lady that I am, I was able to easily connivance them of my driving skill'...Our Taxi driver Bob took me about 1.5 miles down the road to pick up the scooter...okay let me back up...I've NEVER, EVER driven a scooter, but the Arien in me said "you can do it, how hard can it be?!?". The short version of the story is that we ended up taking a taxi and that's all you'll be getting out of me. LOL!!!

Chaweng Beach was simply the most beautiful beach; pure bliss. When Kema and I walked on the beach I secretly thought of you guys and wished I could transport you all here. Hopefully, after reading the bolg you will be inspired...

Okay....gotta get ready to head out for dinner and drink in Bo Phut beach. Sending lots of luv ur way.....we'll keep you posted...two fingers!

The End of Day 2 Kinda Sorta Day 3??

Kema:
Well today has proven to be a very interesting adventure, we finally met up with the rest of the group and headed to Ko Samui!!! This island is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!Much like Hawaii but on a totally different level. The island definitely lends itself to the true elements of mother nature as well...if you know me you know that I am not traditionally one with the out doors (i.e. bugs, lizards, animals etc) but I am really making a conscious effort to adjust and enjoy...relax, relate, release right?? LMAO. Oh yeah and my press/flat ironed hair its a complete WRAP!!! all natural here I come lol. Our hotel can be defined as "rustic" with a comtemporary feel ;)and the natives are really hospitable.

I am so happy to finally be here and settled for a couple of days, the New Years celebration is suppose to be spectacular, they call it the full moon event and the interesting thing about this year its the 1st time in 30 years that its actually been a real full moon!!!

Well everyone until next time!! miss ya much!!!!

Day 2: Headed to Paradise-Dec 29, 2009

Stephanie:
Morning Team, i bet your wondering why we haven't posted any pics; well cuz I left my USB cord to my camera at home. However, we are on a tireless quest to find a cord to post pics; so stay tuned....
It's 9am here in Bangkok and I can't sleep. Kema and Ashlee are knocked out (so jealous) and I've been up since 7:30am. We did not burned the midnight oil away in the humid streets of Bangkok last night. By the time we took showers and even thought about heading out the rest of the group was coming in...however Ashlee reports that the streets of Bangkok are beyond grimy, stray dogs and prostitutes were everywhere. Btw, if your ever in Bangkok we are staying at the Grand Millennium Hotel; which is very nice.
Funny Story: so, you now when you are traveling aboard you have to buy adapters/converters for things like computers, cell phone chargers, curling irons, cuz the outlets are different depending on where you going. So, I decided I was going to straighten my hair out before we hit the town. The hotel is a pretty nice hotel; so I figured my curlers would fit into the outlets and I wouldn't need my adapter/converter; and they did. So after, about 3-4 mins i asked Kema "did you turn the heat on; something smells like it's burning?" she said "no, it's probably your curler". I thought briefly to myself "could be, but they've never smelled like that before". Thinking nothing of it, I go into the bathroom, touch the curler; which are hot and I proceed to straighten my hair and the iron burns a little bit of the hair around my edges. I almost DIED!! LITERALLY!!! I heard my hair sizzle followed by the stench of burned hair. My eyes got so big and my heart almost stopped; honestly I could have passed out easily. Moral of the story: if u buy, purchased, paid in full for a freakin converter/adaptor USE IT! laughing on the inside, but crying on the outside...

We'll be headed to Paradise around 2:30 this afternoon...

To be continued.....

Day 1: Departed- Dec 27th

Finally.....after multiple months of planning and anticipation we’re FINALLY about to take off on our BIG South Asia adventure to Ko Samui, Thailand and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. YES, we are doing it “Diddy Style”.

We are so blessed to have this opportunity to see the world through a different lens; we are highly favored. This will be me and Kema’s first international trip. We both wanted to take this opportunity, since we will be out of the country for the New Year; to say “we love you guys” and to thank you for being apart of our wonderful lives and contributing to the FABULOUS young ladies we are today. And since you all can’t come to ASIA we decided to bring you along neway……..we hope you enjoy the BIG adventure as much as we will….Lots of LUV….kisses!!!!

Let the adventure begin....DAY 1

Kema:
The morning started off pretty darn funny!! Our flight was scheduled to depart LAX at 11am and we were at the airport by 7:40am LMAO...only to find out that our flight was delayed by 3 hours!! believe it or not its hasn't been bad we have been wearing our hates of optimism and having a blast!!!!!!!
Highlight of the Morning: The family that road in our shuttle bus to the airport was absolutely hilarious there was a 10 yr old kid who kept shoosing his grandparents pretty FREAKIN HILARIOUS and he kept giving Stef the sexy eye LMAO ......
What Nexts? !st coffee than Lucys (drinks/shots) :)

Stephanie:
Alrighty...for all ya'll who really know me...to KNOW me is to LOVE me. Thank God for Kema who definitely balanced out my high strung temperament this morning. We got up bright and early at 6am only to get to the airport to find out our flight has been delayed. The first thing that went through my head was our connecting flight through Seoul, Korea (oh shit are we going to make it) and our flight to Ko Samui, Thailand (OMG! What will we do if we miss our flight) and more importantly all this damn money I've spent only for all my planning to go down the drain due to a DELAY?!? NEway, we've been sitting in the airport for 5hrs now, but the time-surprisingly-is flying by...at this point all i need is some Lucy's and a Ambien, cuz this chic is on OVERLOAD! Lots of LUV...I'll keep U posted. Dueces.

Day One Continues....

Stephanie:
Whew...just made to Seoul, Korea and i am so thankful for this break to walk around and stretch my legs; a 13hr flight is NO joke. Although, the flight wasn't that bad...especially if you have more than a couple of Lucy's and a Ambien to get you through...HELL U can do a 20hr flight and be just fine. Oh, did I mention that flying international has it's perks: free lucy's all day long, the food was pretty good traditional Koerean cuisine and the attendants were extremely accommodating. Shout out to Jhena "damn Gina" Raskin for being one the first to introduce me to Kreorean food (luv ya chic and u better be reading my blog). I'll keep you posted....later!!!

Kema
Seoul Korea's airport is beautiful its like Disney World!! for shop aholic (Gucci, Burberry, Hermans and the list goes on...) so needless to say I am a happy camper ;) the flight really wasn't that bad although I think I may have a bit of a hang over from all of the lucy's LMAO, the actual airplane was beautiful, it's nothing like flying international!! The seats are like individual eggs very spacious...well gotta run time to board until next time!!

Stephanie:
Made it in to Bangkok at 2am Dec 29th. Yes, we traveled into the future. We'll thats all for Day 1 and blogging. We are now headed out to enjoy the nightlife in Bangkok. We'll keep you posted...peace.