Hello,

This is our last day in Thailand before heading to the Laos border tonight.

We arrived in Pai to the joy of Lisa getting very ill!! She blames dodgy chicken from our first meal here. So lisa spent the first couple of days in bed while I (Rich) went back and forth from the pharmacy to get her some delicious medicine. I also hired a bike and cycled to a little fishing park to try and catch some piranhas (no luck - but very relaxing) I felt very conscious of my lack of any fishing skills as I was surrounded by loads of old Thai fisherman who probably didn't appreciate my incompetence around their pond!

After Lisa finally got out of bed (lazy!) and felt better again we spent a morning with some elephants. We had a bare back ride through forest (torture on my bum) before splashing around with them in the river. They just kept squirting us and throwing us off their back once in the water - quite scary to fall off a giant elephant that could squish you so easily! We then spent a relaxing afternoon around the pool and obeyed all the souvenir T-shirts telling us to 'Do nothing in Pai'!

Pai is a really cool place, a bit a Thai version of the Green Fields at Glastonbury, with great little bars, lots of live music and hippies everywhere! Unfortunately, after Lisa had recovered, all the bars were closed due to the Thai elections so we couldn't enjoy all of the delights Pai had to offer. Wish we could have stayed longer!

I let lisa talk me into a Yoga day today with "Mama". We are half way through our lesson and so far it is just doing a few stretches and then turning the lights off, laying down for 5 minutes and then, you guessed it, more stretching. I did enjoy being able to do the crab while watching lisa struggle so much though, haha!

Anyway we better get back to Yoga class now, 2 more hours left!! Hopefully all this stretching will help me deal with our 2 day journey into Laos tonight. I hear the slowboat is a killer on your bum, fingers crossed that its not as bad as sitting on an elephant's spine again!!

Bye for now!!

P.S I wasn't being lazy, I had VERY BAD food poisoning you mean boy!!!!