More Animal Adventures In Phuket...

This Elephant plays the harmonica, can hoola-hoop, and is waaaaaay too friendly!

This Gibbon was my favorite.

This Monkey Tried To Kill Me! Look At Those Teeth!

Then he wanted to be my friend!

He loved David!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PHUKET!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We brought in the New Year with a seaside dinner and live music at Molly Malone's here in beautiful Phuket, Thailand. Fireworks brightened the sky over the Andaman shore throughout the night as thousands celebrated the New Year on Phukets Patong waterfront community. My friend, Peter (GM of Molly Malones) , showed us a great time in his ultra popular and packed Irish Bar located on the water in Patong. We toasted Chocolate Vodka shots, listened to the live band, played pool, and finally brought in the New Year on the front patio under a full sky of fireworks.

My first New Years resolution.... Visit Thailand More Often!

Long Day Today!

Today was a very long but incredible day in Phuket. We started the day off at a Monkey Farm where I got attacked by a crazy monkey and my friend David got peed on! Well kind of. More on that later... We then went and visited some elephants at the Elephant Farm. After that we went to Kata beach and did a long swim in the ocean. Once we swam ridiculously too far out, we had a diving competition to see who could reach the bottom of the ocean first and bring up sand as proof. David won, to my amazement, and so I had to go back down super charged to seek my revenge. Forgetting how bad my sinuses are, I really jacked up my ears from the pressure. I think we free dove 30-40 feet. So for the next hour after, salt water periodically poured out of my nose every time I leaned forward. 

After that we headed to a spa and did a cardio workout as well as strength training. I worked my legs, which needed it! Then as if this wasn't enough, I went to Tiger Muay Thai in the evening and sparred top ranked pro boxer and former WBO lightweight titleholder Michael Katsidis. We boxed a few rounds and I thought it went really good. I will post pictures and videos of all of the days activities as soon as I can, we're taking the boat out tomorrow so I gotta get up in 6 hours! 

Busted In Phuket!

After 2 days in Phuket, I finally got busted! It was bound to happen eventually. I am not even 100% sure what I did wrong. Thats bad I guess. I think I ran a red light and made an illegal turn. Either way, I had to drive my motorcycle straight to the Chalong Police station to pay my fine. After spending the rest of the night reading "Motorcycle Driving In Thailand As A Foreigner For Dummies" over a seafood dinner, I am ready to obey the laws of the Thai roadway tomorrow!

More updates, pictures, and videos soon!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas! 

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas! We are now in Thailand and spent Christmas day in a very unique way... 

We started the day off at the Floating Market.... 

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The first thing I bought was a Thai Guitar made of wood and snake skin. I am a horrible musician but that didn't stop me from trying. You can see our Thai driver in the background trying to off himself!











The market was really interesting. The locals try very hard to sell you just about anything. If we had of bought everything that was offered to us, our boat would have sunk for sure. They were very nice though. 

After the market, we visited the Coconut Sugar Farm...

Then we traveled over to an Elephant Farm. We played with some Elephants, posed with some tigers, then watched an Elephant show...

Even after all of these completely random and spontaneous Christmas Day adventures, we still felt we had to solidify an even more random and unique ending to this very memorable day. So for Christmas dinner, we got serenaded by the live singing of a Thai Elvis impersonator. Yes we did...

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THAILAND!

Yesterday we had a busy day as well. We visited a Safari and I got to use my new Canon Rebel XSI digital camera. Here are some of my shots....































After the Safari, we found some tiger handlers and they let us feed and play with a couple baby tigers...



We will continue our journey on to Phuket Island tomorrow and thats where I will stay the remainder of my stay here... More to come!

Off To Thailand!

I leave tonight for Thailand and I am excited! It will be a nice change of scenery and I am looking forward to the tropical climate!

I always say, while in Thailand, that the next trip I am packing nothing but a backpack! I always over pack and you can buy most everything there. Well, I just finished packing my 2nd bag so, again, I am bringing 100lbs of luggage! I will say that this time a majority of it is food which will be consumed on the trip. I have a case of Muscle Milk RTDs, a case of Muscle Milk Oatmeals, A tub of Muscle Milk "Cake Batter" powder, and a case of Morph Bars. I also packed all my supplements and vitamins. Hopefully customs won't confiscate it all! Its hard to find good supplements in Thailand.

During my last fight camp, I must have swam 100 miles inside the 24 hour fitness pool. Since my fight didn't require me to swim any, I am hoping all that hard work will pay off and I will swim dolphin-like in the beautifly clear Andaman ocean!

One cool thing about going to Southeast Asia is that I always manage to get into something thats so crazy, I have to ask myself if I am really doing it... On the last trip it was a toss-up between shooting machine guns next to a mine field in Cambodia and going into the snake pit in Thailand. I think being in that snake pit and having 3 poisonous snakes strike at my hand was the loudest I have ever physically heard my heart beat.

I will be posting blogs, pictures, and videos as often as I can so check back!

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