Paradise Found

Hello!
Well, what goes down must go up!
So I found a resort with a deal by the glorious internet and moved us in today--still on Koh Lanta. We have a pool and AC and TV and a glorious sunset view, clean comfortable bed, all the little mod cons. Even better, the place is run by gardeners, because it is also an orchid farm! Litterally everywhere there are orchids- they even put orchid blossoms in our fruit smoothies. And at night I hear gecko lizards (Joel, where are you?) and the place smells heavenly of jasmine or some other fabulous flower I can't distinguish.

In other bright news, Jean Yves feels better, at 90 % I'd say, and so do I (especially after Ashtanga Yoga this morning on the beach at our old place-must do that when I come home!).

Our fellow vacationers seem to be almost all retired (or nearly so) German couples, and they as well as the Thai workers go to bed and close down by 10 pm-perfect! So, for the next six days we stay here as slugs, eating our fill, sleeping by the pool, and reading. There's a great way of exchanging books with fellow travellers or in your hotel, which means that you read things you would've have thought of at home.
My reading list so far:
-Freedom in Exile, by the Dalai Lama
-Old Path, White Clouds, (biography of the Buddha)
-Two Steven Saylor historical mysteries during the Roman Empire
-Seven Years in Tibet
-Agatha Christie, the ABC Murders (In French!)
-Three Musketeers, A. Dumas (In English!)
-Marie Claire, Biba, and some Men's magazine from Singapore
Tomorrow I'm starting Obama's biography, Dreams of my Father.

Voila!! les vacances :)
Pictures tomorrow after charging the camera batteries.
love
cyn