Thai Boxing

It was good to see the babies again as I have really missed them a lot! They were full of energy, BUT I got lucky and got to rest a bit. There was one baby (one of my favorites..I still struggle with how to pronounce his name but it begins with an S) and he was crying and crying and crying. I sort of laid him down on me (I was sitting) and I could tell he was just tired. So then I lay down with him on my chest and rubbed his back as he fell asleep! It was adorable and reminded me of the days when I use to lie on my Dad when he watched TV (well I don’t remember, the pictures tell me).

There was a couple volunteering from Europe today as well as Krista and I so there were lots of people to help with the crying! It was a good, but pretty uneventful day. I have fallen in love with Caymen (like the islands..although that’s the English way of saying it) who is a porker..but I love it! Pictures soon I hope (it’s SO hard to take their picture as they are never still and always grab the camera).

My feet have never been as dirty as they have in Chiang Mai, which is weird because I don’t think of it as a dirty or dusty city. But every day when I come back I have a “feet washing ceremony” as my feet are literally BLACK!

I am definitely going to miss this weather when I come home. The weather here is PERFECT! China was too cold, Vietnam and Cambodia too hot, but this weather is NICE! The middle of the day is a bit hot (I try not to do my errands or anything from 11:30am-3:00pm) and the mornings and nights are cool (you need a light jacket..or at least I do!) but the late mornings and early afternoons are perfect!

After returning from the orphanage I took a quick shower and then met Ely, Beau and Ashely as we were going to a Thai boxing match! Ely was able to get tickets through his hostel, so we went to grab some dinner beforehand. The restaurant was really nice and pretty, and filled with both tourists and locals. I got breakfast because I was craving it and was pleasantly surprised. We then made our way to the boxing match and entered the stadium. It actually wasn’t THAT bad! We had “bleacher seats” and didn’t really get the best ones (it was GA) since we showed up about an hour after it officially started. There were a lot of tourists, but also a handful of locals making bets. I was hoping it would be a bit more physical (I think the ref was TOO easy) but it was still really fun!

We moved around a bit as our first seats had a huge pole in front and once we moved we met some other tourists and Ely made a bet and won 100 baht! It was funny as the betting (for us at least) was made based on their dance moves. Before they started fighting, they would do this dance thing..it was so funny! The best fight I think we saw was right when we arrived, as it was a GREAT knockout. They had some “boys” fight..we thought they couldn’t have been older than 12 and then the title match which was pretty good! We ended up moving down to more ringside since nobody seemed to care!

The title match fight was at 11:00pm and after that they have a few more fights but we decided to call it a night as the flower festival parade is in the morning and we want to be up and ready for that!

Hugs and kisses from Thai boxers!