Leo's head isn't nearly as big next to this one! I mean it with the best intention...
In this shop even though photos were not allowed, we just couldn't help but sneak this one. Yea, his belly holds up next to these pregnant ones don't you think?
Huh, what? Native American??
We then proceeded on to a village full of craft shops, some funky, others with great furniture and decor but much too large to bring home in a suitcase! The village was deserted since it's low and rainy season, but good for us no crowds or major tour busses.
this wooden xylophone was pretty cool.
One the way to Bo Sang, the umbrella village we bee-lined for this honey manufacturer. Their honey was interesting with various flower flavors but we agreed that the dark honey was the best, so I bought that. We've used in tea, yogurt, cereal and fresh ginger tea and it's almost gone. We have another that is lighter in color, still good but certainly not he deep richness of the other.
Sony bought 3 kilos of beeswax ~ good quality, sweet aroma beeswax.
And finally at the umbrella place where Sony began her quest for the perfect one. She started out wanting solid red but ended up looking at painted landscapes, flowers, elephants, then a pink one,so eventually, I sat down and Leo left to sit int he car. We had been talking about Malcom Gladwell's book "Blink" the follow up to "The Tipping Point" where in a split second, those that have honed their instincts, know what they know. Without question. When the shop girl opened up a red with scroll detailing, that was IT for me, as it was for Sony. Whew...
They manufactured them behind the large shop. The various processes of building the spine or structures, to lacquering, to painting to finishing touches.
Lot and lots destined for export.
Amazing the amount of work they crank out in this little place!
Sony's choice:
picking one for her Mom took another few minutes...
but in the end, she pulled the trigger!!
And just for fun, after all that...
On the way to a hot spring, the monks in a red truck/cab was humorous to me.
The geysers were blasting pretty high, and the waters were pretty steamy!
Leo likes it HOT - I couldn't even stand to put my feet in hard to believe he could sink his whole body!
Eventually Sony took the plunge as well...
Our final stop of the day was to find a specific restaurant near CM University. Cheap eats they say! After driving and walking back and forth, back and forth, we found a parking spot in front of a these food carts which looked pretty good but Sony still had this restaurant as her focus. Finally, we settled on buying our dinner after carefully watching how they cook their dishes.
We especially liked this cart with her speciality Pad Thai. Since it began raining, we climbed into the car and began to eat THE best food I've had in Thailand thus far! And it was all of 100 Baht which is 90 cents!
The Pad Thai is wrapped in scrambled eggs...yum!
Here's my food in the car..
And here's Sony eating...Very, very good! We bought lots of dishes to take home: Pad see euw, vegetables, more Pad That, chicken with rice and fried eggs. YUM!
After a long day, Sony opened up her umbrellas to inspect her purchases and thankfully, still loved them.
Our daily routine of drinking coconut water! Healthy and great tasting with lots of benefits! Love that!
- Posted from the road in Thailand.
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