Landed in Chiang Mai!!!
Trip Start
Jun 30, 2005
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Trip End
Jun 05, 2006
Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Monday, May 8, 2006
Just to let you know that we landed safe and sound yesterday after a pleasant 1 hour plane journey. Chiang Mai seems loverly!!! It's great to be back in Thailand and Chiang Mai has all the lovely charms of Bangkok with out being absolutely mad and noisy. We met a couple on the plane (Karen and John) and we're all staying at a guest house (called Smilie) with a pool. Last night we went out for dinner - they are the type to eat at street vendors for breakfast, lunch and dinner thus taught us how to eat very cheaply and yummyly (?) (amongst other stuff had frog legs in garlic and soy sauce - recommend!). Anyway obviously bummed we didn't met them at the beginning of the trip. Today (obviously not with them) Gav and I have just ate lunch at McDonalds, and yes we
appreciate it is McShit but it is also McGreat when you haven't had it for months and months and months!!!! Now that the craving is gone and I'm happy to not have McShit for many many more months to come, its funny where that craving comes from. I think a lot of it has to do with home and false pretense that you're not quite as far from home as you may sometimes feel - if that at all makes sense? But its definitely yummy Pad Thai or Thai curry tonight. I feel I should mention that this McDonalds was absolutely great
in customer service and food quality, which is weird considering we're in
Thailand, home and the US have a lot to learn!
Anyways enough about McDonalds (how sad), plan today is to lazy around the pool and work out the plan for the next couple weeks, we have to be back in Bangkok a couple days before we fly to China to pick up our reissued tickets. Time is going very quickly!!!!
Anyways as always sending you lots of love and we'll see you soon - its pretty cool how I can actually say that now and it be true and not some thing colloquial that you just say!
lots of love
Jodie and Gavin (who's next to me on the interne checking out some rumors
about the football manager to be for Saints - if any one could shed some
light on the matter to make him feel better that would be greatly
appreciated!)
