Been a couple of days since I have written anything. Sometimes you find time to upload pictures or blog but not both. We met up with Ashley and Alexa yesterday for dinner. My cousin Gordon had asked if we have time could we look Ashley up and we did so we did. She is here on and exchange type program. Will be spending a year here going to a Thai School. Her friend Alexa (sp?) is here from a small town a few ours from Mexico City in Mexico. Both were very n...

Been a couple of days since I have written anything. Sometimes you find time to upload pictures or blog but not both. We met up with Ashley and Alexa yesterday for dinner. My cousin Gordon had asked if we have time could we look Ashley up and we did so we did. She is here on and exchange type program. Will be spending a year here going to a Thai School. Her friend Alexa (sp?) is here from a small town a few ours from Mexico City in Mexico. Both were very n...

Last night we met up with Ke, Muei, Cartoon & Captian to attend a Khantoke Dinner Show at the Old Chiang Mai Cultural Center. Khantoke includes traditional dances from Thailand and the northern tribes people. And some great northern food. The 6 of us sat on the floor were a couple of small wooden table was brought to us with a number of great tasting dishes of food on them. After pigging out we watched the traditional dancing show. The young women that were d...

Today we spent the morning visiting 2 Wats in the old part of the city. When we started out the heat was not too bad but as the day progressed the temp got hotter. We entered the grounds of Wat Chedi Luang and wandered around to the back area of the grounds where there is a beautiful old Wat ( I beleive that is what it is called ). It is very old and some of the brick is missing along with most of the elephants that once went around the wat. It is beautiful and ...

Today is Thursday the 5th and we have been up since 6am this morning. Rene and I went on the Flight of the Gibbon, zip lining through the Jungle. It was great fun. There were 6 others in our group with us. Michael from England, Mary and Cortney from New York, Mark and Marline(?) from France (?) and Ann from Austrailia. This was our first time zip lining and I was not scared. But for some reason my knees keep shaking. Poor Rene is scared of hights and it took him...