Merry Christmas!

Hi, it's me again. Merry Christmas to everyone and hope you are having a nice holiday. We had been discussing what we would do for the day. I wanted to go hang out with my monk friends at my new favorite temple (see below), but Meg had other plans for us.





Get up at 4:30 am, stuff my body into a pink shirt that was two sizes to small, skip breakfast, get in a tuk tuk and head to old town so we can start running by six am. The good thing was that the sun hadn't come up yet, so at least I wasn't sweating before the run.

Before




And after (nice head phones Meg, I think she was able to tune into KDWB)



All went well and we survived. I guess the good thing about getting up that early, is happy hour comes sooner. We proceeded to have breakfast and some beers with our new acquaintances for the day (Martin and Lana). Martin crashed a cargo plane in Canada when he was 22 and has chosen Thailand as his new home to spend his lifelong monthly insurance payments. (his reasons for choosing Thailand were not postable)

For Christmas/Birthday/Wedding we ended up getting a set of Thai dishes for our gift exchange. I'm not entirely sure that we needed them. I clearly have not had too many issues with utilizing our existing dishes to transfer food from the refrigerator to my mouth, but Meg is super super super excited about them. She thinks they are "beautiful". She likes the style of dish made by the Lanna people over the last thousands of years. What a cute little nerd, and here I thought she was supposed to like cheese. Plus they are microwavable and dishwasher safe. I am told that we are going to have them "forever", so all is good.

Here's a picture of some of them without Mac and cheese and open faced sandwiches.


Again, I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday and talk soon.
Paul

Location:Chiang Mai