- IMG 6581
parting dinner - IMG 6312
Day 2 starts with water buffalo. - IMG 6160
- IMG 6402
Leslie, Tim, and Tee bow early to the inevitability of getting wet. - IMG 6436
Pad thai, omlet style - IMG 6442
No one was looking anyway: we were out at the ladyboy show. - IMG 6364
We get on the raft. It sinks a little too much. We get off the raft. - IMG 6365
The raft is supplemented with another pole or so, so it will sink only the appropriate amount. - IMG 6317
We shortcut through someone's rice. - IMG 6351
(note the full mouth and trunk) - IMG 6352
It was just like riding a horse, except instead of snacking on grass, they would pull down bamboo branches. - IMG 6524
- IMG 6181
Women add to (or steal from--I wasn't watching that closely) money tree. - IMG 6415
Our Thai cooking class started at the market. - IMG 6500
our room - IMG 6540
still amusing myself with the camera - IMG 6138
- IMG 6189
And finally, on our way to the train station, the answer to the age-old question: do they have Dairy Queens in Thailand? Yes, of course they do. - IMG 6237
Dancers - IMG 6161
towers of various sorts - IMG 6519
What would a gate be without a giant gold Buddha? - IMG 6371
Village #2, home of the pink water buffalo - IMG 6395
dinner - IMG 6521
gate, dragon - IMG 6340
Hop on! - IMG 6514
weights for measuring opium - IMG 6222
A lot more work goes into those paper umbrellas than I ever really considered. - IMG 6224
the silk factory - IMG 6434
Our instructor jokes that "Pad Thai" means "fried Thai people." - IMG 6504
the bus to the Golden Triangle