Who knew there was one day out of the year that Australia dedicated to no work and all play? Because I sure didn’t, but Christin and I quickly have become fans of this holiday! (this is ole Aussi Phil and I comparing whose mouth is bigger lol). It was January 26th and we took the liberty of celebrating it with a group of Aussi’s we met here one day. After a long day of work, we threw on our bathing suits and a $4 dress we bought at the beach and headed over to their hotel. They have a sweet pad to say the least, although its nothing compared to our large shower/toilet/bathroom and cold tile floor, with rock solid beds…its pretty amazing. We literally just sat and marveled at their marble floors and huge rooms. Two of them had on matching shirts that said “Australia” with kangaroos all over it lol. They “grilled some ribs on the Barbie” (although ribs is totally not a norm in Australia), some corn, potato salad, and peas. Given the fact that T
hailand doesn’t have a Wal-Mart so finding ingredients for all that food was hard, it was quite deliciousus. Lets talk about how Christin and I DEMOLISHED some ribs. I’m talking they made at least 10 racks of them and there were about 7 of us all together. We hadn’t had a rich American meal like that since we’ve been here so we were in tears eating them haha. Don’t be mistaken though, we are dreading coming back to the states and eating all of our greasy, 4 person servings every meal lol. After we ate and chatted a bit we all went swimming and played games, it really was a lot of fun. Wednesday we went to see 3D Avatar (for my 3rd time since its been out) at the Paragon mall since none of the girls had seen it yet. Before the movie starts the whole theater stands out of respect while they play the King’s song. Lets talk about how they played a video while his song played of him helping the poor, getting crowned, and little things like tha
t and I CRIED!! Hahaha I couldn’t help it, he just seems so sweet!! After being here a month and hearing the anthem, seeing his face plastered all over everything, and the respect this ENTIRE country has for their king just hit me while they played this little video and we all stood in a MOVIE THEATER! Seriously though, can you imagine if we stopped walking, traffic, everything, and stood to play Obama’s song? No, there would be 10000 law suits so that “people would have the right to stand or not” yada yada yada. I have a lot of respect for the level of respect that people have for one another (from what I can tell). But with all that said, the movie was really good and I’m just glad Christin can start taking part in conversations now lol. Every time we’re out talking to different people and the conversation dies, it automatically leads to “so have you seen Avatar?” Because face it, that is one thing all nations have in common is American entertainment and movies, lol. Last night we were out and about and found a new area we didn’t even know existed RIGHT BESIDE where we live! In between these other two HUGE malls there is a long, patio like area and they had live music, and a bike show (who would have thought we’d see Harley’s and true bikers in Thailand??). So Christin takes a bold step and I SITG'd to the extreme, that's how we roll. That's all I'll say. Afterwards we celebrated by listening to the live band and eating noodles from a little stand. These people cook enough of each different dish of noodle to feed atleast 50 pe
ople and pile them like two feet high on trays and just stick them out on the table. I got one called “mai mai pet” and it was soooo good! As we set and listened to music, looked at the little shopping tents along the streets and the two huuuuuge lit up buildings we were sitting between, we were in tears thinking about leaving. We only have one more week of teaching, 4 days of beach, and one week of Chang Mai and Chang Rai and we’re leaving (3 weeks)!!!! We have come to LOVE the Thai food, like seriously. We eat it for almost every meal (except for the 7 Baht= 20cent McDonalds ice cream cone we get everyday). Pictures don’t do justice and capture just how big this place is. I know I’ve said it before but its literally like Times Square on 4 or 5 different corners of where we live. We casually walk to dinner and everynight there is something crazy going on. There is never a moment we DON’T have something to do (I mean I know in Cleveland we have Las Mas…but lets be real) lol. This last picture is a little BNF love to my theta folkies (if any of you even read this!)
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