Once we arrived in Penang we realised very quickly that Coronavirus Craziness was taking over the planet and there was a real risk we might get stuck in Malaysia alone with no flight home and no place to stay and also without the option to travel... suddenly Sh&t got real and I had to make a snap decision. So I decided to go back to Thailand to meet my friend and see if we could all find a place to hide out. We had no idea what was about to happen... We donned our masks, got across into Thailand after two medical checks and countless temperature checks...
We decided to go to Koh Lanta and we found a great residence with an awesome pool. We were pretty stressed out but excited to all be together.
The kids got back to their home education and we all began to relax and have some fun! There were moments of panic and this ever increasing fear of not knowing what was going to happen but we all managed to have fun and live in harmony nicely together.
This was one of many monkeys we saw in the trees at Ao Nang, Krabi, just prior to making our way to Koh Lanta. This was Miles on his iPad (again) at the restaurant we crashed at after a long journey from Hat Yai to Krabi! The taxi at the end seemed to take the longest as he took one hour for a 20 minute journey and didn't care how much we complained about it!
These photos are a bit disordered, here is the ferry from mainland Thailand to Koh Lanta.
Me and Wadies somwere in Koh Lanta.
The kids found many interesting things on the beach... Martin and I loved walking/running on there and we were lucky enough to take in a few beautiful sunsets before it had to end....
There were shells, jellies....
Seaweed, cuttlefish bones.. and porcupine fish.. we saw a few of these fish washed up on this beach... and there was loads of plastic... :( we did do a trash pick-up on one of the days.
There were many lovely memories from this time, although in the end the stress of all the changes going on in the world around us got to us too much and we had to bail... we just got too scared.
The kids were interested in the cool displays at the airport. They were both very excited to be going to their Dad's.
It was pretty weird to see the whole airport empty almost and everyone who was there, wearing masks or masks and glasses. Almost every flight was cancelled.. it was tense.
We got back just in time for Easter and Caden's 12 birthday. The kids did a small easter egg hunt in the garden.
This month will always be remembered as the one we spent in Thailand under pretty extreme circumstances. There are mixed feelings from this time because it was not the month long trip around Malaysia with the world schoolers that I had planned and paid for but it was still a BIG adventure...
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