We began to come alive a little today.  We’re leaving tomorrow, going back to Beijing.  We have a flight to Barcelona Tuesday, and Judy begins to organize our packing, thinking ahead to our packing in Beijing for the cruise.

I have a more serious job.  I have to find a Starbucks so I can pick up a “Koh Samui City Mug”, to add to my collection.  We’ll be going to the airport too early tomorrow morning.  Neither of the two stores will be open at that time.  I get dropped off from the hotel shuttle at a mall area in the city.  I walked back up the road to where I had seen a sign, hoping it was open (the Starbucks app says one of them is no longer open).  I don’t know the city well enough to really know where I am.

I found the store and it was open.  Unfortunately, they don’t make the “Koh Samui” mug.  There are several other cities in Thailand with their own mug, but not Koh Samui.  I had to settle for a Thailand mug in the same style.  The real problem with buying these mugs when we’re traveling is their size and weight.  I can usually fit one or two somewhere in our stuff, but with our current trip and a cruise, there’s the potential for a 10-12 cups, almost an entire suitcase if I pack them in their boxes.

I had a Mocha Frappucino, while I was there, in the interest of comparing Mocha Frappucinos in Starbucks around the world.  It measured up pretty well against the Beijing version.  There was an outside patio area on a busy back street, with lots of little shops allowing for some interesting people watching.  There were some real characters out on the street.  I don’t remember seeing so many “buffed out” muscular guys outside of a gym.  They were everywhere.  There are “Thai Massage” shops everywhere, two or three in each block.  Who needs all these massages?

Back at the hotel, a storm was blowing in across the water.  We enjoyed watching the rain as we packed for our flights tomorrow.