Still in Thailand!

Sorry it has been so long since my last post!  About a month ago I went to Kanchanaburi, about 5 hours west of Lopburi.  It's known for beautiful national parks, waterfalls, and the Bridge of the River Kwai.  It was a really good weekend; we hiked the 7-tiered Erawan Waterfalls and walked to the bridge.  Unfortunately somewhere between the fourth and the fifth tier something happened to my camera (I'm thinking I got water on it).  Without any pictures to post, my blogging has suffered..
Here are some of the pictures I did get while in Kanchanaburi.

One of the military cemetaries in Kanchanaburi

 Tier 2 of Erawan Waterfalls

 Tier 4: used as a waterslide, which I definitely went down

Let's see.. there was also a trip to Khao Yai.  Another national park, but two hours to the east of Lopburi.  We stayed at a really cheap, nice guesthouse and had a halfday tour that went to two bat caves and a natural spring.  The guide was awesome and he kept finding all sorts of snakes, spiders, and giant insects to scare everyone with.  The first bat cave we actually got to go into and we could see hundred of bats hanging from the ceiling.  It was a really cool experience.  The second bat cave we went to we didn't go in; it's one of the biggest in the area and has 1-2 million bats inside!  We just stood in a field and watched as thousands upon thousands of bats flew from the cave at dusk.  It was one amazing to see this thin line trail across the sky, continuously for over 20 minutes.  And it was so quiet that you could hear the sound of the bat wings flying into the sky.  Khao Yai was green and jungley and reminded me of the Thailand I was expecting to see before I came here.
Those are the major things that have happened in the last month.  The theme of September is saving money for October!  My last day at Anuban is October 5th and then I have the rest of the month for vacation and most schools don't start again until the first week of November.  I've been starting to plan for the month with a few of my girl friends who also want to go to the south of Thailand.  As of now the rough plan is to take an overnight bus down to the south and then a ferry to Koh Tao (around a 15 hour total journey), then to Koh Pha-ngan and Koh Samui, then to the other coast and go to Phuket and Koh Phi Phi!  We'll see if we can fit it all in or if we just find paradise on the first island and decide to stay!