Our time with Karen during the Christmas holidays proved to be a great time to participate in some of the tourist attractions northern Thailand has to offer. The day after Christmas we went zip lining with friends of Karen's from Korea. It was a wild ride through the rain forest of Thailand with our guides Oven and Johhny. It was definitely a once in a life time experience, filled with long zip lines over the tree tops, and vertical drops that left us feeling like we'd left our stomachs in the tree top...
A trip to Thailand does not seem complete without actually learning how to cook some of the tasty Thai dishes we have been eating... And if you're going to try to learn h ow to cook, why not start with the best... like The Best Thai Cookery School. Led by Chef Ritchie, we joined a couple of Karen's friends from Korea for a day of cooking and eating. Now let's hope we can replicate some of this flavor when we return to Fairbanks! It's hard to pick a favorite out of the seven or so dishes that we learned, but that mango sticky rice is hard to beat...
We discovered that Thailand grows some big catfish! We also discovered that maybe one of the reasons for their giant size has to do with their diet- we spent the day fishing for them with balls of day old bread/cake/donuts. It was quite a bit of work to reel one in- our largest (caught by Mike) was over 30 kg (60lb). Karen wins the reward for most, Laura for catching the first fish, and we all felt like winners by the end of such a successful day!
Karen and I participated in a once is enough experience by "treating ourselves" to 15 minutes in a fish spa. For 40 baht, we sat with our legs in an aquarium filled with fish that nibbled off all of the dead skin on your feet. We can sum it up in one word: ticklish. But now we've done it, and our feet are more beautiful and healthy than ever (or so we're telling ourselves)!
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