Day 38

I woke up and remembered that the Penn vs. Hughes fight was about to happen in America and I went to the internet cafe to get the results. I ended up getting live results for the fight I just had to keep refreshing the page and it would update what was happening in the fight. "Penn takes Hughes back" "Penn working for rear naked choke" "Penn now has triangle from the back" "Fight almost over" and thats all it said for like 5 minutes. I felt sick. Hughes went on to win and I went to get some breakfast. At the Anchor Inn I met up with Freddie from San Antonio, Piers from Australia, Matt and Kristoffer from Sweden and told them the fight results. As we were leaving J.D. from Atlanta showed up so I stayed to talk to him. His old friends and roomates Rory Singer and Forrest Griffin are in the UFC now. Caleb, Chris and Guy from Wisconsin came in and we all ate and talked and I ended up being at the Anchor like 4 hours. We all left and I went to Kata to do some shopping. On the way back to the gym I stopped at the open air market by the camp, which is open most days of the week but busier on Sundays. I picked up some dinner there and ate in the bungalow. After that I went into Patong and passed a big accident in the mountains on the way there. It was a flatbed truck that looked like his brakes went out and he had gone offroad on a downhill and driven up the side of the hill and toppled over. The cargo he was carrying was all over the place. Shopping in Patong was good for souvenir shopping... but it would pretty much be the lowest level of hell for me. The shop owners are relentless trying to get you into their shops and if you just look at something for too long or ask about the price of something they assume you want it. So if you start to walk away they assume you just want to haggle so they start getting loud and aggressive asking you what price you want to pay and sometimes pretty much begging you to stay in the shop. I remembered when I was walking around Patong for the first time, how friendly I was with the shop owners and the suit guys. By the end of this night of shopping I was barely acknowledging them. I was shopping in Patong until after midnight and this was my last night on the island and I did not sleep a wink. Ended up just lying in bed listening to music all night and just got of bed when I saw the sun coming up.