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I just wanted to let everyone know I haven’t fell off the face of the earth.  I just haven’t had time to blog.  In fact, tomorrow I start doing some stuff at 7:30am and here it is almost 11!

Today, we went and rode elephants.  I’ll get pictures of that (and all my meals) up tomorrow.  In the mean-time, just be patient.  We are trying to work some things out.

I had some extra time so I thought I would take this opportunity to blog about what we have eaten so far (pictures will come later).  In JFK, I bought a kfc twister for lunch.  I’m planning this to be my last western food for some time.  On the plane, I had some curry chicken stuff, shrimp pad tai, and a chicken/noodle stir fry.  It was a ll very good.  This morning for breakfast, I had sweet and sour chicken (what the Thai people eat for a morning meal…go figure).  At lunch, we had an assortment of dishes–sorry, I won’t have any pictures of this as I forgot my camera.  At dinner, we had baked chicken, and a mango noodle dish.  Our friend here is willing to help oblige my trying to not eat western food while here…tomorrow he sounds as if he has some good things in mind.

One other thing…the Thai people only eat noodles (think cup-o-noodle noodles) with chopsticks. Instead, they use a fork and spoon.  They hold the fork in the left hand (really fist).  They use the back of the fork to push the food away from them onto the spoon (I’ll post some pictures later). 

Hello from Thailand.  We have been in country less than 24 hours at this point, but have had a great time.  I’ll get some pictures up shortly.  We’ll have to belay the podcasts (long story….I’ll write more about that later) because I have no way to record them….

We went to bed last night at about 10pm local.  I woke up about 4am after sleeping very well.

Later this evening, I should have some pictures and additional details up. 

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