Good Morning Mae Sai

Another morning in paradise. We got up and took our morning walk. this morning we walked down our little street and under the bridge that goes across the river to Myanmar (Burma). The other side of the river in back of us is Myanmar.

The border is watched closely by armed military. They stay very low profile but there are around.

We walked down the road a little and stopped to watch the concrete men empty a cement truck one bucket at a time.

Then onward to the little vegetarian restaurant we like to eat at when we walk on this side of the village.

After we ate we walked the long way back to our room, showered and took a nap.

When we got up we, yep you guessed it, we ate again. This time we had a BIG fish cooked with a very spicy sauce.

The rest of the day was nice as we just hung out walking, talking with folks and laughing.

We stopped by the Rudy processors and watch them separate rubies. They handle thousands of small rubies everyday sorting them into piles by quality an size.

I can't tell the difference between them at this stage but I'm told the difference in price between one pile and another is 20 times higher. These rubies are used to make jewelry and have to go through many more stages of cutting and polishing.

Another thing I am amazed at is the quantity of fruit that grows everyplace in Thailand. The fruit that Daeng is pointing to gets to be the size of a basketball.

We retired early as we had walked many kilometers today. We needed to walk to burn off all the food we had eaten.