Zipping out of our tree house!!
Not too sure whether she should try the bananas in coconut....
Charlotte, at the start of our class...rather overwhelmed.
Our second day in Chiang Mai we went to an organic farm and took a full day, 6-course thai cooking class. It was UNREAL and probably one of my highlights of the entire trip so far (other than everest, of course!). We learned how to cook three types of curry, soup, different types of stir-fry, pad thai, spring rolls...the list goes on! Even our little reject cooks, Maria and Charlotte, managed to cook scrumptous meals! They didn't even burn their noodles!
Well, I can't really remember the last time I blogged...but I'm pretty sure we've been in and out of two countries since my last post. Chiang Mai was a blast. It's such a great city. Kind of reminded me of the Thai version of Kingston, Ontario because it really had a university town feel. We got there on sunday night, which meant we got there just in time to experience the amazingly awesome night market. There were stalls filled with jewelery and more amazing street food, and TONS of cheap massage places. Anywho, the cooking class was UNREAL. So so so much fun and all four of us cannot wait to get home to cook for our friends and fam. Maria and Charlotte are going to need a little guidance, but Hecks and are I proud that they stuck with it and didn't blow up the place.
Charlotte and I are currently sitting in an internet cafe in Koh Phangan while Katie and Maria are off galivanting in Laos. C and I made the decision to come back to Thailand after our tree top excursion so we could get several days of diving in. But before I get into that, let me talk about Laos!
The first picture at the top of this post is from one of our tree houses. The 4 of us spent 3 days and 2 nights essentially living like monkeys. We did something called The Gibbons Experience where we were driven into the Bokeo National Park in the north of Laos, given a harness, gloves, and two guides who looked more like hobbits than humans. We trekked two hours deep into the jungle where we stopped to swim at a water hole with our monkey-men guides. This expedition is so cool because since it's in the national park, there is no human disturbance other than the ziplines and the tree houses. So we zipped for an hour until we finally reached the last zip which lead us RIGHT INTO A TREE HOUSE. It was so cool. That night we went to sleep with the creatures of the forest, witnessed a brutal murder of a mouse right outside our bug net and then woke up at 6am to our hobbit guides zipping into our tree house. The whole experience was so cool. Our guides spoke very poor english so we didn't learn that much about the forest, but it is called the Gibbon Experience because of the Gibbon Monkey that inhabits the forest.
Charlotte and I have now separated from Katie and Maria for a week while they frolick up in Laos. We are starting our diving tomorrow and CAN'T WAIT. We're on Koh Tao for a week and then Koh Phangan for a couple days, one of which includes the infamous FULL MOON PARTY.
Don't worry mommsie, I'll be safe.
We're starting to get excited to come home and see everyone. Charlotte literally has to tell me every time I turn my ipod on that it is indeed still too early to listen to xmas music.
Wish us luck with our diving, apparently the whale sharks around here are the "thing" to see.
xxoo,
J, C, M and K
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