Krabi

Once in Krabi, the first language I heard was Hebrew, with this cute Israeli family on the same bus as us.  It was so nice to hear and know that I still remember at least how to understand.
The bus dropped us in Krabi Town and told us to walk down the road to our hostel.  These girls didn't know where they were going so they just walked with us, and ended up finding a hostel on the way.  It was a lot cheaper than the one we were supposed to stay in, so in the end we decided to stay there, too, since our deposit had been so small anyway, and we just stopped by the other place to let them know we weren't coming.  Turns out it's good we decided to tell them, or they would've charged us, so we made sure to tell all the other places we didn't stay that we weren't staying also.

That might be pushing it

We were pretty tired from traveling so we made it a relaxing day, wandering through Krabi Town and getting Thai Massages.  Mine didn't really hurt, though Jessica said hers did.  It felt good though to be a bit relaxed.
We met up with the British girls we'd booked after, Emma and Sophie, and went to a night market/walking market.  It was cool seeing all the locals out and shopping also, knowing it wasn't just a tourist thing.  Emma and Sophie got street food, but Jessica and I, since we're not traveling for so long, didn't want to risk it.  Instead we went to an Italian restaurant, the four of us, and we sat and chatted for a while before heading back to call it an early night.
Saturday morning we all got up and the four of us headed to Ao Nang.  This guy tried to offer us a ride for 50 baht more than a bus.  We're not sure why he thought we were so stupid.  And then after that he tried to make us pay HIM in advance for the bus.  Is he crazy?  Luckily we got there without being ripped off.
It was a perfect beach day.  A bit too hot to stay by our stuff but the water was amazing and the four of us just hung out and got two lie lows (floats in British English) and just floated around, occasionally falling off and often getting pushed back in to shore and having to paddle back out.  There were some nice shops around that we also checked out.
It was really great to have such a relaxing and calm beach day.  That night we thought we'd go for a drink, and we found a cute reggae bar where you have to take off your shoes and there were wooden swings, but it was dead so we didn't end up staying.  Actually basically everywhere was dead and we couldn't decide if it was just too early or if that's how it usually is.  We ended up heading to bed early.
It was also the first night of Channukah.  In a place where Christmas is barely celebrated, I'm not at all surprised that Channukah isn't.  My friend, Pam, had given me Australian gelt, so I had one of those, and we drew a channukiah and have been drawing a new candle each day.
I realized I haven't mentioned, a lot of people in Krabi are Muslim, and a lot of places you have to take off your shoes before walking in, including our hostel and a bunch of shops.
Sunday was a bit more exciting.  We got a tour to James Bond Island.  I will admit, while it was fun, I'm not sure if it was because of how tired we were or if the tour just wasn't that amazing, but while parts were nice, overall it wasn't my favorite.
First of all, the drive was much longer than we'd anticipated.  We'd thought we were going to just drive to a boat, but instead we drove pretty far before the boat.  Our first stop was James Bond Island (aka Ko Tapu, located in Phang Nga Bay) is in the 1974 James Bond film, "The Man with the Golden Gun".  Neither of us has actually seen the movie (well I might have but if so it was when I was younger and I definitely don't remember it), so it wasn't that exciting, but the island was nice with some caves, and it was a pretty cool looking rock.

From there we headed to an area where we could canoe (by that I mean, we got into a canoe and a guide brought us around).  We got to go through caves and see different rocks.

He also pointed out to us these strange little things that looked like fish but were jumping around on land (I just looked up on wikipedia and I'd assume they're some sort of amphibious fish).

Sorry it's unclear but they're there

Then we headed to a floating village for lunch and... more shopping.  Shocker.  Every place has basically the same things it's just figuring out who has it cheapest.

Then we went back to land and got back on a bus, and went to the Monkey Temple.  There were so many monkeys out front!

We went into the temple with a big buddha and a cool cave area with stalagmites and stalactites, and climbed up (carefully since it was slippery).  I loved it in there.

Then back in the daylight we paid for food for the monkeys.  Those things are aggressive! They tried stealing the whole bag from Jessica, and the small ones were scared to come near in case a big one would try to fight it.

We even saw a baby with an injured leg who couldn't get much food because the other monkeys kept stealing from him.

I know my dream has been to see monkeys, and it was pretty cool feeding them, but no lies these ones made me pretty nervous.

Then we headed for a swim in a waterfall, but the water was very cold and you couldn't see so I didn't stay in long since I wasn't enjoying having things brush against my legs and sometimes nip and not know what it was.  I'm assuming it was fish but still it was creepy.
When we got back to the hostel we were supposed to meet up with Emma and Sophie, but we were both exhausted and accidentally slept through our meeting time, though we found them where they'd gone for dinner and joined them before calling it another early night.
That's about it for Krabi.  I must say I really enjoyed the quiet town, and loved Ao Nang beach.
Next up, Koh Phi Phi.