Hong Nam U Nai?

Okay, so Saturday night we went to this night bazaar/market thing where merchants had come and set up their goods to sell all along this street and it was probably a mile long and there were two sides to it. The first thing we saw was this dance that these Thai girls were doing. They were probably Stephanie and Andrew's age. And that's what that video is. So we walked along the street, looking at the cool stuff, watching all the interesting people, smelling all the interesting smells, and laughing as Holly kept gagging when she'd smell something gross. Which was all the time. There are some smells that really are not so good though.

Holly likes dried kiwis.




Also, we never really know what we're eating. At the mall, we all ate at a food court and we thought we were getting something really delicious and we got back to the table and our Thai director, Pim, goes, "So you guys got catfish? Wow, you're brave."

Awesome. Holly actually liked it though. And then we ate dinner at a really awesome restaurant where they had a buffet of raw meat and these tiny little round barbecues on the tables to cook your meat. We almost took the gizzard and chicken heart, but we just stuck with the chicken and found some pineapple to grill.

On Sunday, we went to Wat Rung Khun, a white temple that a famous Thai artist is building. He's pretty much the Michelangelo of Chiang Rai. It was pretty sparkly. Take a look. Don't mind the conversation in the background. We went to another cool temple on Monday and the Bhuddist monk who lives there is Pi's, the lady who rents us our house and drives us around, her uncle. So we got to go inside his little Buddhist house and then we weeded his huge garden. Luckily it had cooled down a lot cause of a storm that was coming. We got to eat good fruit off the trees again as a reward.




Rose's ankles have turned into kankles (due to immense swelling).

Monday night, after most people had gone to bed, Rose and I went out on the porch to write in our journals (yes, be proud) and a storm was a brewin. Kenny and our country director, Dave, were having a nice conversation to the side of us which we both were eavesdropping on and then eventually joined in as we watched it begin to rain. The lightening would light up the whole sky and the thunder was pretty cool. Then at about midnight, it started to downpour, hard, and we decided it would be fun to get drenched while playing soccer, so that's what we did for about half an hour - get soaked in the rain and it was AWESOME! By the way, it was boys against sexy girls and the sexy girls won.

In a classroom at a school where we might build a cement walkway, a toothbrushing station and a library. And that's Ryleigh, our new friend who's traveled the world.

These are girls from another school we visited, they were at a daycare/preschool watching Ice Age and we got to play with them for a little bit. Little Thai boys are craaazy.

Sawadee ka...