I like Pai, I really do. It just may not like me. From Laos, we made our way up to northern Thailand, through Chiang Mai to a small town called Pai. Imagine my utter delight when I see at least 5 restaurants that offer bagels and cream cheese! My favorite food in the whole world! I felt like dancing in the middle of the street and I may have even broken out in a little wiggle because of my pure joy. Now, of course they don't taste exactly like what I love from home, but it is pretty darn close. Close enough after having maybe 1 or 2 bagels in the last 4 months. I savored every bite of every bagel for 2 days. On the night of teh second day, something didn't feel right...
30 minutes later, I'm kneeling over the toilet watching my berry smoothy and bagel come right back out. Yep, I had food poisoning. Again. Did my bagels betray me? I refuse to believe it. That morning, I had eggs with cheese on them. I hate you eggs! I hate you cheese (No, No, not you cream cheese.. I could never hate you)! Anyways, gross story short.. The next day I ate very little, but I kept it all down. I laid in bed and tried to watch TV while I recovered. There is only 1 english channel, a sports channel, and it froze up about 1 hour into a soccer game. It still hasn't unfrozen, 3 days later. I guess I'm not meant to watch TV here.
On a happier note, we rode elephants today, bareback. I didn't even know it was an option, but we were given the choice of riding in a chair or on a blanket thrown over the elephant's back. I was thinking it was totally awesome until the elephant took 2 steps. Can you say ow? I think Hbf was more uncomfortable than me and actually asked to get off at one point. Luckily (and to my amusement), the trainer didn't understand and kept going. At one point, the chang (elephant, in Thai) went on a rampage and wouldn't do anything the trainer was telling him to do. I nearly fell off (at least, that's what it felt like. Hbf claims we were never in any danger) as he crashed through the jungle. Finally, he calmed down and the trainer explained that the elephant had heard a dog and got scared. The trainer never seemed to have any fear and continually laughed through out the whole episode, which I guess made me feel a little better.. Anyways, we reached the river and the elephant sprayed us with water and then rolled around in the river, throwing us off playfully. We would get back on and he would roll again. It was pretty fun and quite the experience.
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