The traditional puppets were great - we saw them as my birthday treat, the day after Mum got here. Three people to a puppet, all dancing together - and this fellow (Monkey - the one on the right) had us all in stitches coming out into the audience and interacting with us. Great skill.
Then off to the food court of the neighbouring night-market for a while ...
As always:
Hello, Rosa here, me and dad are sitting in the airport, waiting for Jo's flight to arive. It wont be here for another 1hr yet! So I thought i would write a blog! The internet here is, wait for it, 250 baht (about 3.50 pounds) for an hour!!! Thats about 210 baht an hour more than normal!! Well we are in an airport I suppose. But anyway.
We have been in Chang Mai and Chang Rai for the last week. Having fun in the Night Markets (Chang Mai's Sunday Night Market was the best!!!) Bought lots of little goodies!!! We got a flight from Chang Rai to Bangkok. We left about half an hour after Seamus and his mate Xander went off to there 2 day trek!! We might do a 2 day horse riding trek when we go back up there.
Chang Mai was really nice!! We stayed in the Old Town. The street we stayed in was a little alleyway and it was gorgeous, it was like being in a seaside town but slightly off the beach!! The sun bathed the street and it was warm but not hot (it is up in the hills so cooler than bangkok). We got a sleeper train up there, (the beds were massive on the bottom and tiny on the top so (even though I am bigger) mum got the bottom bunk, and i was squished at the top!!!) on Sunday, so we went to the Sunday Market that night.
We hung around there for a few days, and then got the VIP bus up to Chang Rai (cold place!! Even higher than Chang Mai). Chang Rai was nice, and we stayed in a place with a pool. There was a nice Night Market, and we went there nearly every night!! At the night market there were people who could paint your nails, so i got mine done (bright pink with white patterns) they are now almost totally picked clean!!! We met a little Swedish girl called Delphina (she was half Thai and had excellent English for a 5 yr old from Sweden!!!) we made friends with her and her parents, they are travelling South-East Asia for 6 months before Delphina starts school (they don't start till 6 yrs in Sweden). We fished in a little pool thing using our hands as nets!!! We caught a supprising number and maneged not to kill more than 2!!! I pestered Seamus and Xander (as is my duty as younger cousin!!!) and they got annoyed but only Seamus showed it!! Also in Chang Rai they had a Boots!! And me, mum, and melissa went there on a spending spree!!
All together we had a wonderful time and I think Seamus, Diane and Xander enjoyed it to!!
luv yall
- roza xxx
Hi there
just sitting back here at the Atlanta computer - seems so hot here after the cool of Laos and N thailand. Just another day - mostly to be spent organising my baggage I think and getting prezzies. Time to write a few words for the blog I thought.
Great to hear that you met up with the boys again - nice to know they are well!
It was great to spend 10 days with Heather Mark Rosa and Melissa in Thailand. I had managed to get them a room at the Atlanta and when Shay and I arrived, there they were sitting by the pool all looking fine and as if they were born to it! We had a few mostly relaxing days in Bangkok and it was good for me to have a bit of relaxation too after a hectic three weeks in Java. Highlight was probably the foot and Thai massage with five of us being ministered to by five very sweet lads.(Thai Westlife stylee) - hope Mark has got the photo!
I whisked them all off onto the overnight train to the North and I think it went down well - we'll skate over Rosa's mardy at not getting the bottom bunk! Chiang Mai was great and there were seven of us there which made it easy to be our own private tour group and whizz off in a tuk tuk whenever we fancied - those elephants really were good at football - and Heather was only just dissuaded from buying an elephant painting.
To Chiang Rai by special luxury VIP bus - what a great tour guide I was! and a hotel at 3 quid a double WITH a swimming pool! - wow what a great tour guide!!
It all went far too quickly and there were great times - night markets, foot massages, shopping, swimming, elephants, shopping, Starbucks (twice) the Burmese border, more shopping and lots of good laughs. Wish I could have stayed longer but Laos beckoned and I finally got to Luang Prabang. It was really great to see you all and I was very impressed that you are all still speaking to each other - continue to have a great time in Thailand.
- love DiWe spent a nice few days in Chiang Rai, where Seamus caught up with us with his mate Xander in tow. Diane, still being the ace tour guide she said she wouldn't have time to be, checked us in to a great travellers hang-out and guest-house - with pool!
The little girl Rosa's fishing with (above right) was keen to make friends and hung out with us a bit over several days. The day before we left she checked out with her Swedish mum and mum's boyfriend - two people none of us had ever seen before. There's hands-on parenting for you ...
Chang Rai's night market was a good place to haggle for beautiful things - but there was still more shopping to be done for Di's shop (yes, they do mail-order). Shay and Xander needed visa extensions, so we lit out for the border:
Well, we've been having a very good time, we've been up to Chang Mai (on a Thai train, which was really nice).
We went up to a temple which was at a top of a mountain; we went up by cable car (we did not want to walk), and up at the top there was a really nice view.
We have also been to see elephants painting. Yes real elephants, painting really nice pictures, and also playing football.
Then we have just hung around our hotel for a bit, but me and rosa kept going to the internet a lot which was cheap and next to the hotel.
Then we got a VIP bus to Chang Rai which is a bit smaller than Chang Mai but nice. We've been up to the Myanmar (burma) border so Seamus could get his visa, so while Seamus was doing that we were shopping for Di's shop which was really fun.
We're now getting ready to fly up to Bangkok tomorrow, where we are going to meet Jo, which is also goin to be fun
speak to ya soon - missin ya loads
- Melissa
