Thailand Journals: Day 5

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

I mentioned earlier that this week is when Thai’s celebrate the New Year…right? Well, this is a big holiday and the Thai’s working on the wall did not even want to work today, but were told they needed to come for half the day. We helped them today, but everything they had us do was basically getting ready not to work for the next three days. Despite this, a lot was accomplished. We also (some actually) started another project building a flower bed under one part of the house and laying pavers out back where, during the wet season, the families living in the house cannot get from their car to their house without sloshing through mud or wadding through puddles of water. So after lunch, we l continued to work on this project, as well as, helped them clean the Bible College building on the property.

We only worked until about 3:00 p.m. today. Then we did the usual…return to the hotel for a shower and change of clothes to be ready for our evening activity. Today we choose a two and a half hour time at our hotel to rest and relax before heading for Chiang Mai for dinner and some more shopping at the night bazaar—some people’s “shopping” meant a stop a Starbuck’s for coffee before heading for a massage. I actually as thankful for the opportunity to shop…but others did the other.

We ate dinner at an excellent German restaurant before splitting up and perusing our varying interest at the night bazaar. Once again, we did not return to our hotel until around 11:30 p.m. so once again another late night!