From rough seas to calm waters

The last week and half has been choppy and tiresome. Shear exhaustion had me looking forward to my trip south to an island called Ko Lanta. Anouk and I had booked a flight down there. After a sleepless night of tossing and turning I dragged my weary body out of bed to catch the plane. 8 hours later, we arrive in Krabi (5 hour layover in Bangkok). After much anticipation to finally give ourselves a relaxing break and get well again (Anouk was ill as well), we are greeted with the most depressing sight. It was one helluva gray grizzly drizzly day. We immediately check the weather report online and it tells us the weather will be like that for the next week. I'm in shock. Almost in tears, my exhaustion physically and mentally was so shot at this point. Since I was too tired to move or think, Anouk saved the day and frantically checked weather for all other islands. The least offensive is Koh Chang. We book the next flight out in the morning back to Bangkok. After a 5 hour bus ride we check into a guesthouse on the mainland called Trat. Another sleepless night. Finally the next morning we ride the ferry to the island. Another long bumpy and windy truck/taxi ride leaves us feeling even more exhausted and slightly ill, and as we approach our destination the surroundings seem too remote. We stop the taxi driver and ask if he can please turn the truck around and drop us off a few beaches back where it looked like there was a decent amount of life.
Now the story gets good - we drag ourselves in a state of delirium to the closest place to find food and a chair. We get both at a very hippie looking establishment that we later notice seems to the beach-y theme around here. The helpful owners suggest staying at bungalows across the way. They aren't directly on the beach like we had hoped, but they turn out to be just what we need. The beach ones are much more expensive and a lot more "rustic." Cold bucket showers, mosquitos, and sand everywhere, is more than we can possibly handle in our state. Our bungalows turn out to be better than anything we expected. And cheap! I decided immediately to stay for the rest of my time in Thailand.
I will post pictures soon, but really no words or photos can truly describe the sensation of being here. Life is amazing.