Okay, so because I have soooo much to say, I’m going to try to break it up with pictures. They’re worth a thousand words, right? But first, back to yesterday a little bit. I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but they drive on the “wrong” side of the road here, which already feels perfectly normal. But motorcycles are crazy! They go the opposite way of traffic, they weave in and out of tiny spots, and sometimes jump on the sidewalks. But somehow it all works out; I don’t really get it. Anyway, we were trying to learn how to take the bus from our main road, to the church where we’ll be going, the lady who will be teaching us Thai, and also Alan’s house. So we walked around a little bit, and then went to the church and chatted for a little bit. Well, we kind of watched, while they talked. Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave. Then we headed to Alan and Lynette’s apartment and had dinner in the restaurant downstairs. You know how when you’re at a restaurant in the States, the servers bring the food out all at once? Here, they bring it out as soon as it’s ready. So one or two people could have their food, and be expected to eat, 5 minutes before the last person to receive their food. That was kind of a quirky cultural thing they had to explain to us. Also, you don’t eat with a fork, even though you’re given one. You also have a giant spoon, and you use the fork to push your food onto the spoon. Okay, anyway. It’s monsoon season here, so when we went back upstairs, Alan and Lynette have an amazing view of the “downtown” Bangkok, and there was thunder and lightning, and it was all very fun.
On Saturday, Weldyn and Barb booked a tour for us from their hotel. We saw so much stuff in one day that each stop could legitimately have its own post. Actually, I might just do that, because I have way to many pictures. So I’ll just put in the highlights.
At the Floating Market, we saw a baby elephant, which was probably the cutest thing ever. You weren’t allowed to touch him unless you bought food to feed him, but we took lots of pictures.
There were guys with huge snakes wrapped around their necks, and for a small price, you too could have a big fat snake wrapped around your neck…
So later on we rode Elephants, but I’m going to tag those pictures on to another post. But we saw a MONKEY! It was in a cage by someones house when we were floating down one of the canals, and it looked sad, but it was adorable. I have like 10 pictures, so it was kind of hard to choose one.
On our way back down the canal, we saw this enormous thing that looked like a snake gliding through the water in front of us. But when it got to land, it had arms and legs. The guide said that it was a water…. something that started with an m, but I can’t remember what it was. I didn’t get any good pics though… sorry.
Okay, that’s all the time I have this morning. I’ll get more pics up this evening. Jetlag should be over its worst by now, so maybe I’ll make it up past 9:30 
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