noodle quest 2006

hello friends! three great things today!
1. an excellent market smorgasbord breakfast with mangos, sticky rice, papaya salad, bbq chicken and soup
2. we pick up tida today from the bus station!
3. NEW PHOTOS are up at last! as usual- click the photo link on the right. we start with my cooking course in chiang mai, then the lahu village where i took my massage course then a series of dan and mali pics from the chiang mai to bangkok night train. ENJOY!

just when i think i can actually manage this devil’s playground, it turns around, spits in my eye, then decided thats not enough and it kicks me in the head.

yesterday was very relaxing- just hung out with danny in the air con all day and then at night we went on a nice date to see the movie brokeback mountain which was totally awesome.  the jump to attention at the start of the national anthem image montage on teh movie screen is always a surprise and a pleasure. 

today i woke up with the sole intent to go to pimelay spa and get a massage with the insipration for my thai massage quest- a namelsee little thai lady who works there.  so danny and i ate some fod then i called up at around 11:30 and tried to figure out the name of teh woman so can make an appointment.  in the end the rcepeiotnist and i decided that it must be Blah.  yes, the massuese that inspired me to learn thai massage is named blah.  love it.  [read on]

hey friends- i am back in bangkok. jess is heading to cambodia the day after tomorrow. how will we live?!?!?! i am heading to the north on thursday i think. i need to buy some warm clothes ... [Continue reading this entry]

This is the area where we are staying: this is pad thai: this is me and my mama at the beach this past summer: On new years ... [Continue reading this entry]

we ended up staying in trat for the night as we were all to tired and lazy to do anything else. we went to a night food market for dinner and ate heaps of deliciou vegeatbes and spicy meat ... [Continue reading this entry]

Ugh. Arriving and traveling in Thailand has been nothing but really shitty. most people are rude (travelers and thais) or at least enough to make us unhappy, everything is way more expensive than we had thought and thaialnd ... [Continue reading this entry]