Phuket all!

Actually, it's pronounced poo-ket. The weekend of June 8th to 10th the 3 U of M girls and ! headed to the island of Phuket. It was not the beach paradise I was expecting, but it was a very successful for me. I was running the Laguna Phuket International Marathon (half marathon). I ended up running very (1:27:26), even in the heat and placing 3rd overall (More pictures to come).

During the weekend we sat around our fancy resort - probably the fanciest Best Western in the world, around the pool. We made a day trip to a city called Patong that had markets and many tourist attraction. My faculty advisor said that this was not the place to do our souvenir shopping because everything is very overpriced, and what did I do? Souvenir shop, of course. Here is a picture of my teaching partner and I in our fancy hotel.

Prior to my journey to Thailand, I thought that Phuket was going to be one of my favourite places. I was wrong. The only reason I enjoyed my time there is because I ran well. I felt bad for dragging the other girls along for this expensive weekend. At least we had beautiful accommodations (with continental breakfast in the morning) for the weekend.