Yep, Another Day in Mae Sai

Another day in Mae Sai; up at 6:00 AM and breakfast in the Ban Pa Meat morning market.

The fellow on the left, with his head down working, is "Me's" husband.  He is the Pa Thong Ko maker.

Same stuff for breakfast, I love it.  I had Soy Milk, Pa Thong Ko, Coffee, Tea, Fried Chicken and Sticky Rice.

Daeng talked with "Me" and I made a deal with the market beggar, "SuLa".  The deal is if he takes a shower, cleans his finger nails and puts on clean clothes I'll give him 100 Thai Baht.

Now, that may not help him, as a beggar, because if he cleans up folks will think he is doing okay, they won't fell sorry for him or give him any money.

More will be revealed.

I wanted to tell that the Thais have gotten around my saying: "Life is like a roll of toilet tissue as the closer you get to the end the faster it goes!"

How they got around that saying is they take the center of the roll out and use it from the inside.  You have got to give them credit.

When we got back home, Daeng let "Bang's" little boy play with the Dancing Santa that our friends, Micheal and Charlotte, gave her.  He and Santa did a little dance.

Life is good.

Another Day in Mae Sai 10-11-2012

This morning we got up pretty early, around 6:00 AM.  It was raining pretty hard so we had coffee and some fruit while we waited for the rain to stop.

This time of year it rains pretty hard, almost every day, between 4:00 and 6:00 AM.  Here it is known as the rainy season, go figure.

After it stopped raining we hopped on the motorbike and rode the 4 kilometers into downtown Mae Sai to the morning market. 

We had coffee with the folks that have the Pa Thong Ko shop in this market.  He is Muslim and also makes some other treats with potato in one and another with a bean topping.

I also took a picture of the girls of another family on a motorbike.  Yes, that is five (5) head scarfs (khimar's) on one motorbike. 

After coffee and Pa Thong Ko (Thai donuts) we headed over to a big jewelry shop that has a lot of Burmese Jade.  We are looking for a Jade Chess set for a special gift.  This is the only set they had and it was not Jade.

We did go into the Jade cutting area and talked with a couple of Daeng friends as they were working.

Daeng and I decided we would go into Myanmar (Burma) on Monday and see what we can find in the border town of Tachilek.  Here is a quick video of the Tachilek Border Bridge.

Also, the kid "huffing glue" in this video, Fences Between Us, is standing on the bridge crossing over the Mae Sai River into Burma.

On the way back to the house we stopped and bought the big Hula Hoop that Daeng wanted to exercise with.

Yep, another day in Mae Sai.

By the way, the hill in the back ground, over Daeng's shoulder, is Tachilek, Myanmar (Burma).

Another Day in Mae Sai

Another day in Mae Sai, we got up around 5:30 and had fried chicken, sticky rice, coffee and Pa Thong Ko in the Mae Sai Morning Market.

We then headed over to see how the folks that have the Pa Thong Ko shop in the Ban Pa Meat Morning Market. They are a Chinese couple that have the shop in the smaller market two lanes (call Soi in Thai) from our home. They have not been open for the last two months as the wife had a baby about 7 weeks ago. Here most husbands stay home and help the wife with the baby for the first month or two.

If you would like to read more about the Thai style donut called Pa Thong Ko just CLICK HERE.

We found their apartment and they are both looking well. We talked a while and they stated they were going to reopen their coffee and Pa Thong Ko shop next week.

Now, I not really into babies but this little kid is really a looker. We wished them the best and told them we looked forward to seeing them reopen in the market next week.

We headed over to the hardware store and picked up two toilet spray hoses for two of the five toilets in our place. Here in Thailand, as well as many other places in the world, when folks use the toilet they just spray off with a hand held spray hose. It pretty effective and no need for tissue, it's drip dry.

The sprays do get a lot of use and need replacing very frequently. The nice part is the sprayer and hose is only around 150 Thai Baht ($5.00 USD).

We also stopped for some home made coconut ice cream; made the old fashion way of ice and salt to freeze the cream into ice cream. I laughed at the "ice cream sandwich" as it is two slices of white bread with ice cream between the two slices. They also add corn and sticky rice along with chocolate, if you want.

Then home to do our chores.

There is not much to do as the old house is in pretty good shape even after us being gone for over three months. Tomorrow Daeng is going to Chiang Rai for a Parent-Teacher meeting with her son's, Boonreang's, school.