thailand, we're here!

hello everyone!

we are currently in chiang rai, thailand. a nice, quiet city in the northern part of the country. it's beautiful here and we're so excited for thai food!

i know we didn't write anything about our week in laos, but we will.

unfortunately, we don't have any pictures. yesterday we crossed the border into thailand from huoy xi, laos and took a bus from chiang kong to chiang rai. on the bus, our camera was stolen. so, we lost the pictures from angkor wat (the big temple on the last day) and all our laos pictures. hopefully we'll be able to do research and at least give you links that you can look at. needless to say we were upset at losing all those pictures.

it did make for a good adventure today. we went to the big c, a department store just outside the city. it was odd to be in such a big mall-type place. we were able to find the same model of camera and a large memory card, so hopefully that will do the trick for the rest of the trip.

we also had a great massage before a really tasty dinner tonight. yay for thai food! we're also getting our plans together for the rest of our time here - an elephant caretaker training course, cooking class, visiting some cool places and beaches, as well as the great thailand meetup (as i'm calling it) where we will hopefully get together with some peeps from california (hi eric and toma!).

all in all, we've rebounded well from our setback and a have a cool new souvenir - a police report in thai!

i think we're shutting the internet cafe down, so hopefully i'll get a chance to write more soon!