3D Birthday Shibang and Room Service

Next week is my golden birthday, I will be 26 on July 26th!  I've been looking forward to this my whole life, and last week was a big holiday weekend for Buddhist Lent and we celebrated as hard as we could.  On Thursday night the roomies and I went into the city and stayed at the same wonderful hotel with a rooftop pool.  We also got upgraded for no reason at all, and our suite was huge and luxurious!  The next day, we met up with our long lost friends who teach about 9 hours northeast of us, and we ordered room service by the pool, went on a very successful shopping venture, saw the last Harry Potter in IMAX 3D (my first time ever seeing a 3D movie), went back to the hotel and got all dolled up, had a wonderful Italian dinner with a great group of friends, and then finally we ended the night at a stellar karaoke bar with our own private Dreamgirls themed room and a balcony!

It was absolutely epic - I still can't believe how perfectly everything fell into place that day.  On Saturday we slept in a bit, had a delicious breakfast buffet, and then hopped the Skytrain to Victory Monument where we proceeded to search for the correct minibus to Hua Hin.  After about three hours and a lengthy gas stop, we arrived at what basically amounted to a two bedroom two bath apartment in Hua Hin!  It was amazing.  The hotel was so nice, room service was good and prices reasonable.  You walk out into the pool area and you are gazing at a wide, empty beach and the blue ocean beyond, complete with banana boats and jetskis.  Needless to say, we got a lot of good quality sun and beach action, and the photoshoots to prove it :)  We've all been home for a few days now, but we are definitely still in vacation mode, as this is a four day week, and reason enough to celebrate, as it still counts as our birthday month! :0  Who would have ever thought that for my golden birthday I would be having so much fun on a random beach in Thailand with a bunch of strangers I've grown to love?  Certainly not I.  This last week has surpassed all my expectations!