Thailand!
Was!
Amazing!
UNBELIEVEABLE!
BRILLIANT!
Not too shabby for Katie!
I could get used to the life of the rich and famous!
five star resorts
wet towels at every corner
cool drinks being offered
sandy beaches
amazing breakfasts every morning
oh, and did i mention some of the coolest people on earth
Ya, not too shabby for Katie!
I was given the oppurtunity to go to Thailand with Jared for work.
I was so excited to take a trip with Jared and some of the IPC's of doTERRA. It always feels good to put a face with a name!
Thailand is really far away from America but if you ever get the chance to go!
DO IT!
You will not regret it!
I promise!
Here is just some of my favorite pictures from our trip!!
Day 1
My very "original" feet picture!
This is the only picture I took of our first day there.
That is because this is all I did the first 24 hours while Jared was
busy getting ready for everyone else to arrive!
Day 2
We started in full swing that next morning.
doTERRA tourist alert!!!
CEO of doTERRA, Dave Stirling
Getting up close and personal with the monkeys!
Hottie! I mean! Coconut!
Jared loved these things! I think he had 2 a day!
Jumped on a kayak with only me and Jared and our very own tour guide!
He took us around these caves!
It was so beautiful!
Cheese!!
Going under one of the little tunnel caves!
The only thing that would have made this better was if it was not full of tourists.
None the less, it was picturesque!
I loved this!! Our tour guide grabbed a leaf and made this heart and then took our camera!
It was one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen!
Floating Island
I don't know if you can tell but we had lunch at the coolest place.
They called it the floating island because all of the houses, shops, and restaurants
were all floating. It was a little scary! But, the food was good!
After lunch we headed to James Bond Island!
One of the really old James Bond movies was shot here.
It literally took forever to get to this little nook.
Some people that it was overrated.
Me, on the other hand loved it!
Truly, one of Gods beautiful creations!
This is a picture of all the Australians that went on the trip.
We had 20ish IPC's.
The best bunch around!
I loved having the experience to go on this trip to really get to know
these people who work with my husband.
We laughed, shared stories, experienced a whole new world together,
and of course we DANCED!
We attended an elephant show.
Their routine was of course choregraphed to
Gangam Style!
Ummm....grossest thing ever!
Snot or spit or something wet all over my face!
Blah!
However, she sure was cute!
While we were waiting for everyone to load the bus after one of our stops I felt like someone was looking at me. I looked over my right shoulder and saw this little boy staring down at me. When our eyes met he got the biggest smile on his face. Then he immediately covered his face. Not even thinking about it, I covered my face. He slowly uncovered his eyes to see what I was doing. I did the same thing and when our eyes met he SMILED even bigger. We played peek-a-boo for the next minute or so. Not really sure why but while playing this game with this sweet little boy I started to cry. It's as if everything in the whole world stopped for one minute. And it was just me and him! Before the moment was gone I hurried and grabbed my camera and snapped this picture. I waved bye to my little friend and got back on the bus. I don't know if I can put into words what my heart felt that day. My heart felt happy and heavy all at the same time. Parts of me wanted to save him but I don't think he needed saving. My new little friend made me feel so humbled and extremely blessed. I think it's fair to say that I fell in love with my little peek-a-boo friend!
Day 3
We started the day off at a snake show!
Eventually one day I will need to upload the footage of this!
My stomach was literally in knots watching this guy. He had only been out of the hospital for a little over a month after being bitten by a king python a few month prior. His thumb still was pretty swollen from his bite. He literally almost died months before and yet he was back at it again.
I wish I would have gotten more pictures of him with the snakes.
But, like I said, I kept thinking he was going to die or something so I didn't really dare take any pictures. I spent most of the time with my hands being occupied by covering my own eyes!
To make the situation even scarier...if that was possible!
Jared asked the guy to wear his "Go-Pro" camera so he could get some cool footage for the video that they are putting together about the trip. The guy was happy to do it but as soon as he put it on I got so nervous because it blinks a red light the whole time it records.
I thought to myself...
...oh great! this poor guy is going to die because my husband put this camera on his head, with a red light, and the snake is going to go right for this poor guys head....
Brave man!
Did I mention he kissed them!
Like literally kissed them on the head!
I am going to have to get the video footage!
Riding an elephant
Cool?
Ya!
Frightening?
A little!
Once in a life time experience!
Of course!
Romantic?
Eh, not really!
I am going to blame that on Chris Harrison and ABC!
Don't get me wrong. Me and Jared snuck in a little kissy kiss on top of an elephant in the heart of Thailand!!!! But, if you can imagine kissing someone while walking, balancing on wheels, and trying to listen to your chatty tourist guide yelling "Aussie Aussie Aussie" every five seconds and if you still think that is romantic then you are...well you are....odd, and CLEARLY never seen an episode of The Bachelor, because their elephant didn't have a tour guide or an elephant that moved! ;)
After, the elephant rides we were supposed to do a couple more touristy things but everyone was so exhausted and just wanted to go back to the hotel to relax. We have had 2 pretty full on days. However, I rounded up three girls and we headed to downtown Patong (sp?) to do some good ol shopping!!!
Jared was a little nervous to let me catch a taxi 45 minutes away from our hotel with a bunch of girls, but I assured him we would be okay! He had so much to do back at the hotel and reluctuntly he let me go. So off we went!
We of course had the best time! Laughing so hard! Bidding and bargaining our hearts out to get our knock off hand bags at the best price!
Day 4
Jared had meetings that morning and into the afternoon. I spent my day helping Jared get ready for the closing dinner and laying by the beach reading a book!
Life doesn't get much better than that for me.
Here is some of the AMAZING IPC's that I had the privilege to get to know a little better!
I know I am a little bias...but my husband is so so so very handsome!
Especially with his cheeks a little sun kissed!
These ladies were my cohorts in getting some amazing knock off handbags!
We ended the evening with an AMAZING firework show!
Now, that was romantic!
And at the end of the firework show....
Fancy Shmancy!!
We really did have the most amazing vacation ever.
I feel so blessed to be a part of the doTERRA family.
