Shanghai on Life

Life in Thailand is still moving along as easy and as sweet as ever. We have spent the last while up north in Chiang Mai. We returned yesterday from a 3 day trek in the Thai jungle where we got to ride an elephant, swim in a waterfall a go both white water rafting and bamboo rafting! We were in a group with some Danes, a couple Austrians, a couple Australians and an English guy, plus one pretty hyper and smiley Thai guide.

The elephant ride hit a bit of a glitch when the seat which is tied to the elephant with rope kept slipping off to one side eventually ending with Jen and I still strapped in the seat but hanging off the side of the elephant, but I guess we lived to tell about it! We had a great trip, but it was nice to return to hot showers and sleeping surfaces that aren’t bamboo floors.

Before the trekking tour JP and I took a Thai cooking class for a day, which was pretty fun and mighty tasty! It was a private lessons with two teachers, plus you got to make and eat 9 different dishes – I love Thailand! We made a couple of curries, Pad Thai, spring rolls, banana blossom salad, mango and sticky rice, deepfried ice cream..the list goes on.

One night while out at a bar around the corner from our guesthouse we were sipping on some super tasy 50 baht (<2 CAD) Mojitos and this guy bring by a baby elephant that you can feed for 20 baht. The elephant could dance, accept payment (passing bills from a customer to his owner), pose for pictures, AND (get this) play the harmonica! It was too much, only in Thailand! Now, I know you shouldn’t support of enourage this kind of thing, but the elephant was playing a harmonica! So hard to resist.

Anyhoo, here’s a video Jen took of a different elephant shaking his groove thing in Ayutthaya:

and here’s a video JP took of Cody getting his sunflower seeds robbed by the feisty monkey mentioned in the previous post:

And once again, more detailed posts can be found on Cody’s blog!