Mae Sai FUN FUN FUN 04/16/2010

We both started out with upset stomachs. We think, after talking it over, that the ‘Chive’ that we ate with our “Phi-Thai” last night was not washed as it seemed to have some grit in it.

We got up around 9:30 after several trips to the ‘haung-num’, Thai for water room or rest room. Tun, Daeng’s brother called and invited us to breakfast at his home. We throw on some clothes, pumped on the motorbike and headed to his place.

It was pretty quiet for a Friday morning. There were only a few sellers at the morning market and we saw a lot of people with baskets on their arms going to make offerings at the Temples.

Daeng said this is kind of like the first day of the year and what you do today will govern what you do every day this year.

We had a great breakfast of rice, soup, fried pork with vegetables and cucumbers. I still did not feel well so I ask Daeng to take me back home. We picked up some ice for cooler on the way back as we won’t have a refrigerator until next week.

I went back to bed while Daeng went shopping for a plastic set of drawers for kitchen area and some food items.

I woke up about 4:00 PM and we decided to go do some fun stuff as this is supposed to be a fun day. Daeng said there was some fun stuff happening by Temple next to the little afternoon market.

We arrived to find the place with lots of activity.
There was a kick boxing contest going on with young fighters going on. The young kick boxers are really fun to watch as they are very quick in their fighting.

There were kids on a large bamboo log across the water canal having contest to see who would be “king of the bamboo” so to speak.

There was food and singing going on, too.