Tourist day

August 20, 2005
Chaing Mai

Yesterday, immediately after arriving in Chaing Mai we had gotten waylaid on our way to our guesthouse by this woman who was part of the tourst assoication. So basically we got talked into doing one of the touristy things that we have since arriving in Thailand. Anyways, today we left for a day trip so that we can ride elephants, visit some of the hilltribes and ride bamboo rafts. We had lots of fun but I did learn several things from this visit.

1) Elephants are really agile. They were scrambling up hills that I would not try to hike up.
2) In general, the local men will make any excuse to touch the white girls. (HAHAHHAHAHA)
3) The villages tend to expect you to buy something.
4) A "walk" is really a hour long hike thorugh the jungle on a path that is about a foot wide.
5) "It will be a little slippery" means "oh you WILL fall. "
6) it is really difficult to swim towards a waterfall.
7) I am accident prone.
8) expect to get wet when anyone is taking you anywhere on a raft.
9) you get over the fact that there are bugs everywhere really quickly
10) did i mention that the local men will make any excuse to touch the white girls.

But overall it was a great experience. Had lots of fun. Took lots and lots of pictures.