Sunday, November 23, 2008

Wow...

am I tired. We had such a long weekend jam packed with many fun things. Yesterday, Lee, Erika, Lisa, and I left with our billets to head down south of Bangkok to a floating market and some other stops near the gulf of Thailand along the way.


We had a delicious lunch of seafood and then headed to a floating market where we did some shopping and did a dusk ride along the river looking at the "lightening bugs". Afterwards we did a homestay sort of deal overnight and woke up in the morning to journey off to a Siam museum featuring some wax figures and huge Buddha figures.


Very fun, afterwards we went to another touristy floating market and made the return trip home stopping at various relatives of our billets (okay mostly Ou's relatives) cities to view their shops and stop for some food. On one of the stops along the way I got to hold this snake. The other picture is at the Ministry of Education with the teachers and the other picture is at one of the royal buildings.



Now I'm sitting at home watching another Thai soap. What a weekend... sorry to break it to you all but this may be the last post for a while.

2 comments:

Laura Love said...

Max!! I didn't know you wanted to be a herpetologist! Cool snake. :)

The pictures and blog are fun to follow. It's interesting to see how many people are out and about (on the weekend) around the national building. I'd love to hear more about the floating market and your overnight stay near the coast.

It looks hot there! Wait until you all get home to a chilly, wintery Wisconsin!!

Stay in touch. (Ellie will be here Tuesday night.)
:) LL

Janel said...

Max - thanks for the update - what a whirlwind you are on... Thanks for the pics and everyone in ALS and Mock Trial says Hi!
See you soon :)!!!!!!