Staying at Melati has been awesome. Went to see a muy thai fight at Chaweng Stadium. I've seen one before in Bangkok and this was just as fun. Got to see both thai fighters as well as french and english fighters. Saw about half dozen fights then went to check out the night life. Ended up at a reggae pub and danced the night away to a really awesome live band.
Spent the following day lounging. Was starting to feel sick. Swam at the pool while Adam got a free scuba lesson then used Melati's kayaks to go explore around. Started feeling REALLY sick and went back to the room and passed out. Was so sick I could barely get up. I'd sit up, then fall back into bed. Took me twenty minutes to stand up and get out the door... I wasn't about to miss my 'massage by the pool by the beach'. I had a fever, my head felt like it weighed 100 pounds and I was having really bad body aches.
Took me forever to walk down to the pool and when I finally got there I relaxed into the BEST massage. Was feeling better and decided to take a yoga class on the beach. It was gorgeous being on the sand, the sun low in the sky and the water calm. I was trying to find my om while keeping a straight face (the instructor's english wasn't that great... so telling me to focus on my 'breath-ing' while 'looking at the natural' (i.e. nature) was painfully funny). started getting feverish again and called it quits, good thing we were done anyway. Sat in the pool to cool off, then couldn't deal anymore and went back to the room and passed out again. Woke up feeling all kinds of bad... tried to go to dinner to get some soup. I had a hard time walking there and after a few minutes of being at dinner was so sick they had to drive me back to my room in a golf cart. As soon as I got back I threw up EVERYWHERE (at least it was outside).
Felt MUCH better. Definitely food poisoning.
I was really touched by how nice the staff was. When we were at dinner I wasn't feeling well so they put a fan on me. They made a soup for me that wasn't normally served on the menu. When I started feeling sick they instantly drove me back to my room and brought all our food to the room. There was a doctor that was eating dinner at the restaurant and she saw me (sick as hell) and she had the staff bring her to my room so she could take my temperature and check up on me. Thai people are really nice. That combined with they are paid to be really nice (i.e. five star resort) is a really nice combo!
I got sick, but I'm thankful I got sick at Melati. There are definitely places I've stayed at that I didn't even want to sleep IN the sheets (but rather slept on top of the sheets). I'm doing much better now... extended our stay an additional night so I can get completely better and just booked tickets to go to Koh Tao to get dive certified!
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