Monthly Archives: April 2013

He said we had to go back and see her. She looks just like our dog, Kiko, but she is smaller! Hard to believe. Although we haven’t seen Kiko in a while and Grammy and Grampy night have fattened her up by now. We may go back to a little chublet!
The first time we went to visit Mini- we sat and played with her for a long time. The kids would lay down and she’d jump up on their chests. She loved burying her face in Lennon’s curls, then biting them! We didn’t have a camera, so we asked Jesse to walk down later and take a photo (which he did.) Later on in the day- Em and I were packing up and the boys ran out to get some fruit shakes. They stopped by one more time to hang with Mini. Smallest dog I’ve ever seen and such a sweetheart.
If while reading this- any rat comments come to mind- I hope you know you just earned some bad karma points! ha

You could get fresh fruit shakes for under a dollar, pancakes with chocolate, pad thai… It was so cheap and good- we ate so much our stomachs were huge! There was also entertainment. A teenage boy had set out a boom box – he had moves we have never seen before! Wow. There were also dogs wandering about that looked like mutations between ewoks and wiener dogs.
This town was quaint and sloooooow! Sometimes we need that.

One of Maddux’s nicknames is Mad Dog, so we couldn’t pass up this photo opportunity.

You slip- you’re done! I was a teense bit nervous about the kids walking around on this canyon with incredible steep cliffs on both sides! But we did it and it was a perfect hike- a little bit dangerous but fun!

This picture was taken at a gas station near Pai. We were looking for a gas station for some time. We stopped at one place to pick up a bottle (sometimes they put gasoline in large bottles.) The woman laughed and said ‘no, not for car!’ It was moonshine.

He came back with – can you guess? Yes, more pictures of temples! These are the ones from his outing that I thought were blog worthy. He didn’t get the story on all the bowls, but they look like the bowls that the monks use (called alms bowls.) When we were in Thailand about thirteen years ago, we saw similar bowls lined up along a super long wall on the side of a temple. You exchanged your money for a handful of little lucky coins- you then walked along and put a coin in each and every bowl. They reminded me of interactive prayer beads, except the beads were replaced by the bowls and you walked instead of just moving the prayer beads one by one by hand.

On our tour of waterfalls- we hit Pem Bok and Ma Phoeng. Each waterfall had an energy all it’s own.