We had a lazy Sunday morning and stayed in bed while we booked our Chiang Mai accommodation. Edd had found a few things to do on Trip Advisor and we had a look at their websites for itineraries and cost. After much deliberation, we booked a cooking course on a Thai Farm for the day – I initially argued that I could not think of anything worse to do, but we found a lovely cooking school on a Thai farm where you picked your vegetables, cooked 6 different dishes and got a cookery book at the end of the day. I agreed that this particular course looked amazing so we booked that for the Monday. We also found a day with elephants that we both fancied, so booked that for the Wednesday and enquired about a few other activities that did not have much information or website booking facilities.

I then Skyped with my mom for about an hour and caught up on what we'd been doing and what she’d been up to and decided at about 3pm that we were hungry and probably needed to go have some lunch/breakfast. We walked down to the B&B and bought some street food on the way – 60 Baht for 6 skewers of 3 different types of chicken. Edd asked them to deep-fry it again, to 'warm it up.’ (It was actually to kill off any potential germs that may have collected on them while they were waiting to be purchased). We carried on to the swimming pool and ate our deep-fried chicken things on sun loungers.

We decided at about 5pm that it was time for a drink; I got a Sky magarita (it’s premixed and served like a cidar in a bottle) and Edd got a pilsen beer he hadn’t tried yet. After about 3 sips he asked me to try it and said it didn’t taste right. After looking at the ‘bottled’ date, he discovered that it was 7 years passed its prime which was probably why it tasted like a badly fortified wine. He took it back and they exchanged it for something manufactured within the last year. We decided it was probably a good idea to finish as much of our gin at the guest house as possible so as to not have to carry it around with us. (This is what we told ourselves). On our way out, Edd’s left shoe started to backchat him terribly until he had to pull the last few centimetres of sole off and walk without it! We stopped at the 7/11 to get some super glue and headed back to our room to fix his situation.

We had G&T’s on our balcony for the last time – we were coming back to Kanchanaburi, but were going to be slumming it big time, next time round. He fixed his shoe and I moved the button on his swimming trunks to make them tighter – we’d only been here a week, but we had both lost so many centimetres that our clothes were falling off. We also decided that I should probably sew the camera lanyard together to avoid losing it at the bottom of a body of water again.

I decided I needed some western food in my belly and we went to Bells Pizzeria on the high street for a Pepperoni pizza. Leaving Edd with a Chang beer and Nascar on the TV, I went in search of a Thai massage. 1 hour later, I found Edd exactly the same way I left him. I had had the most heavenly massage of my life and was ready for bed. We had to stop at the 7/11 again for another tube of super glue for his right shoe. We headed back to our room again to fix it as it had also suddenly started falling apart.

Edd decided to multi-task and Skype with his folks while he fixed his left shoe. He managed to glue his shorts to his upper thigh, my eyelashes and his shoe, all in the space of about 5 minutes. His shoe is fixed, his shorts need patching and my eyelashes have seen better days. He got the ‘devastating’ news that his folks had just handed the keys to his truck over to its new driver. He still wishes he had kept it to take with us to Australia. I on the other hand am ecstatic that it’s gone. He is already researching the next truck he is going to buy there and looked into modifying it for our (apparently frequent) 4x4ing and camping trips to the outback. We said goodbye to his parents in case we had no signal at the Lake House for the next week. We hoped this would not be the case, but we weren't sure what was coming next.