To Top off a Good Evening

We have had lots of adventures over the past few days and even though I'm wiped, I just wanted to update real quick while Adelaide is napping.

Thursday evening after Rocky got off work, our good friend P'Din took us and the team to the Khao Mon Gai (a yummy dish of chicken and gingery oily rice) place near where we used to live. Well, it was closed as it is about half the time we try to go there. They are just open until they sell everything they've made for the day. I have to say I wasn't too disappointed though because that meant we'd go to P'Din's favorite restaurant. We'd only been there once with him before but I remember that we absolutely loved it. I was right and we loved it again.

The part of town the restaurant is in doesn't get alot of tourists which is understandable because this place is the epitomy of a hole in the wall. The restaurant basically consisted of a bunch of tables with stools along and in the street. It was worth the risk of getting hit by a motorcycle though. The food was so good!

That wasn't the end of the greatness though. As we were finishing up dinner, we look up and see an elephant! Yep, an elephant walking down the street. Now we've experienced this before but it's not commonplace enough for us not to get excited. Adelaide was not quite as excited. She was scared. Looking back maybe we shouldn't have just rushed up to it. She seemed freaked out that first of all, it was so big, and then second of all, that its nose was also an arm. She pretty much clung to Rocky the entire time.


After dinner and hanging out with the elephant, we walked to a market. Adelaide was showered with attention there. She is everywhere here but she was given fruit, flowers, and had her picture taken I don't know how many times. She was such a trooper through it all and smiled through it all (except when she had a staple poking her the neck in the picture below).

At the market we got loads of khao naow ma muang (mango and sticky rice) to share with the team. Then we piled in P'Din's VW van for the trip back home. Ah, this is what I love about Thailand.

Here's a couple more pics from the market: