Tuesday - 10 June 08
Well here we are having another great day in our new hometown as temporary as it may be. We have settled in quite nicely to the Chiang Mai lifestyle and already the staff at the hotel and taxi & tuk tuk drivers out the front of the hotel know us well, even though we don't always use their service as we try to walk as much as we can. My soup man ( a young Thai guy) at the food court everynight has become quite friendly with us too, besides the fact that he makes the best Crispy Pork, Wonton and noodle soup, he likes to have a chat and joke.
I was up early this morning (6.30am) as I had a few phone calls to make and emails I needed to get off early. I left Rick to sleep as he was worn out after our big exciting day yesterday. I hope those of you that looked at the photos on the blog enjoyed them, but photos still don't do justice to the experience. So far I have nearly 600 photos in my photo gallery of this trip and there is still 4 and a bit weeks to go. Awsome!
Today was a much more relaxed and easy going day. We really hadn't planned anything so we just dropped some washing off at our laundry lady just down the road and walked back to the hotel and jumped in a tuk tuk and got the driver to take us to the other shopping centre, the Tesco Lotus so we could check it out. Turns out there are two and we wanted to go to the one closest to the Old City which has Sizzler but ended up at the other one, not the drivers fault he took us where we asked to go. Tesco Lotus is like your big shopping malls not quite as big as the ones in Australia but good anyway. We looked around, had some brunch and then went into the supermarket to grab a couple of things, WoW! it was huge and it sold everything as well as supermarket items and you could also buy supermarket items in bulk. Similiar to the Super Kmarts that some states in oz had many years ago. We spent a fair while in there until Ricks head starting spinning at the size of the place and how long it would actually take us to look through the entire shop so we grabbed the couple of items we wanted and headed out. We jumped in a tuk tuk and headed back to ChangKlan Rd which is where our hotel is.
Man we tipped the tuk tuk driver that took us there 20 baht for getting us there alive, he floored it to get there and as I have reported in previous emails, Thailand has no road rules and I am sure no licences. Its a free for all, but I have to say they know how to do it and they are always corteous to one another, there is no angst they just take it in their stride. Meanwhile Rick and I are sitting in the back writing out our wills, but hey its fun!
The rest of the arvo we just hung around in our room and relaxed. Tonight was the usual, off to the food court for our Soup dinner a bit of a look around and me down at the lobby doing the blog while Rick is upstairs watching his Bloomberg.
So blog followers and dudes, our day was a quiet one and its still awsome to be in such a great place. Until tomorrow!!! Kob n Chai
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