FONTastique: A New Year's Day long-tail boating around Phuket

After arriving home from our New Year's Eve festivities around 5 am, I promptly headed back to our hotel room and fell fast asleep. But Karim was still energized and decided to stay up by our hotel's pool with a handful of other survivors. Once 5 became 6 and then became 7, they decided to stay up for the free breakfast that opened at 7:30 am.

Meanwhile, I woke up to find the bed empty around 9:30 am. Immediately filled with panic, I headed out to the pool area to see if I could find Karim. Luckily he was making his way down from breakfast. I have to admit that I lost my cool and yelled at Karim a little bit: "Where have you been all night!?!?" It wasn't my finest hour... but we were quick to make up and get on with the rest of the day.

Ramona, the sole female to stay up all night, had the brilliant idea to book us a traditional Thai long-tail boat for the day. I was the only person that had woken up after our late New Year's Eve, but boy was it worth it to skip those extra hours of sleep. The long-tail boat is a vessel around 60 feet long, with an uncovered truck engine mounted on the back of the boat and connected to a 15-foot, turret-like pole that connects the powertrain with the propeller in the water.