Chiang Mai
It's been a while...mostly because we were away around Thanksgiving to visit Erawan national park, stay in a raft hotel on the River Kwai, and to surprise visit my mom in Chiang Mai. She is currently taking a class in the city to become certified to teach english as a second language. She had no idea we were coming! It was great to get away and eat some amazing food... mostly cheesy of course:) Chiang Mai was busy, but much more maneagable than Bangkok. The bummer is it took us 16 hours to get home...next time we'll probably just take an overnight bus directly there instead of a plane, to metro, to mini bus, to mini bus.... Here's photo documentation of our trip in reverse order! View of the canal surrounding Chiang Mai. Birthday dinner in Chiang Mai at the coolest restaurant "Faces". One of the many reclining buddhas at one of the many VERY old temples in the old city of Chiang Mai. Life-like wax replicas of monks...they were actually kind