Fifty pictures of the same pool

Once we got to Koh Samui, we were done. Done with buses and ferries and taxis, done with carrying bags and struggling to entertain bored, hot children, even done with going to the beach, which, let me tell you, is not the easiest or most fun place to take a three-month-old baby. When we arrived at our hotel in Samui, we pretty much dropped our stuff in our rooms and camped out by the pool for the next six days. We only left the hotel three times, twice to go for dinner at restaurants on the busier Chewang Beach, and once to go to the monkey show. As a result, we have very few pictures of Koh Samui, and 95% of them are either of the pool or the monkeys.

The pool was very nice. There were lots of lounge chairs to relax in, and it was steps from the beach.



It was also the pool in which Olivia learned how to swim. When we first got to Thailand, she was quite nervous in the water and didn't stray too far from her floaty. Now she can jump right in and go, no water wings or anything. Of course Isabella isn't too far behind -- gotta keep up with the big sister!







William also got lots of swimming time in. He seems to really like the water. He'll be swimming by himself before he's a year old, at the rate he's going!