Perfect Match

We arrived last night in Chiang Mai and instantly knew it was a better place by the pure fact that we could breath when we got off the plane. Found a super cheap hostel in the heart of the city with air con, hot water, toilet paper and...no bugs or rodents!!! Then to make it even better we found a self serve laundry and washed everything today. Our clothes smell wonderful I don't know if the soap was really strong or I was just use to the stench our clothes had.

Our guide book has a walking wat tour which we started today, we only made it to the first two but we'll go back to finish. At the second wat we got to have a monk chat, he was a student Monk. It helps them with their English and it gives people the opportunity to ask them questions. Tomorrow there is a chat and meditation at a different wat that we might try. I really respect and admire the Buddhist way of life.

There are so many things that we want to do here so I think we'll be staying a while. Michael wants to do a boarder run and stay another month but I think that's a bit much. We signed up for a cooking class this weekend and tomorrow operation get Carolyn thin commences as we go to a wat with 306 steps.

Went to the night bazaar and got a 30 minute foot massage for a whopping $2 on the way back to the hostel.

I love this city!

We were hesitant to take pictures of the buddhas but there have been signs when it's not allow and there were 100s of others taking pictures so we figured we weren't disrespecting anyone