Chiang Mai

I have been hanging in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the past 3 days. This is the where Ann and Mintra are from. My hotel is smack dab in the middle of the night market. And off in the distance you can see the Mountains that stretch across the horizon. It is gorgeous even amongst the rain.

Ann took us up in the mountains to see this budhist temple. It had a ton of bells to ring. But the best part was the view overlooking the whole city of Chiang Mai. It was breathtaking and so worth the twisty turns in the Song Tau (basically us in the back of the pick up truck)...

We've met quite a bit of Ann's family. Very humbling when you have to use Ann as a translator because we don't speak thai. We met Mintra's Aunt today at her shop. It was about 30 minutes outside of town and she makes silk boxes, purses, stuffed animals. It was really cool and eye opening to see thai women sitting on mats doing intriqute (I can't spell) detailed work.

I am off to dinner with everyone and their dog at an all you can eat buffet of some sort costing only $2.50...Mintra will for sure get her money's worth...She eats a ton and stays so slim...incredible...

more later...hard to write in an internet cafe...

Wig out
Jolie