Traveling during the rainy season in the tropics is always a bit of a cat and mouse game.  It never seems to get really socked in and rain for days on end like you see in the movies, but there is certainly a good chance that it might rain every other day or so.  Typically the sky will start to cloud over and then with not a lot of notice the sky will just open up and rain heavily for about an hour or so and then you can carry on with your day.

After spending many weeks in Thailand over he last few years during the rainy season we have been fortunate enough to never really have our any of our plans impacted by the rain.  The rains have come overnight, or we have been able to do something else like stop for lunch while an afternoon storm passed.  It now seems that statistics have caught up with us, and since our move from Chiang Mai in the north to Phuket in the south we have encountered some sour weather for a couple of days.

The sun is out in the morning, but my younger travel companions seem to have a little sluggishness in the morning so they are rarely up to see it, but I did manage to get a couple of hours by the pool yesterday as can be witnessed by the change in my skin tone.  My brother once mentioned during one of his vacations that people in our bloodline seem to only come in 2 shades – pasty white, and red – I can verify the accuracy of his claim as I have traded in my pasty white for a much more Canadian reddish tone.

Because the rains have come a couple times per day it has been hard to commit to much in the way of tours or anything, so we have mostly been hanging out at the hotel – going for a quick swim or catching up with the rest of what is going on in the world via the magic of the internet!

The weather is supposed to change on the weekend so hopefully we have paid our dues to the rain overlords and we can get some beach time in.