Thursday

I am trying to do several posts as I have already had a couple to fail after I was almost finished writing them. To read the posts in order, you can scroll down. We have been very pleased with our OAT trip so far. The group is so much fun and it is very similar to our pre or post trips we have taken before, except they are faster paced. We have less free time than we've had on the GCT trips but it has been fun and it has been fine tuned well. Today was a long drive on the bus but we actually enjoyed it as it gave us a chance to nap, read, and relax more. Jim, Megan and I have tried the local Thai foods and except for the fruits, we have not been very successful at finding much we really like. But we are trying it-so give us credit for that! We are not the only ones in our group who are having problems. Eleanore has been the most adventurous in the food department and has really liked a lot of it! The fruit is excellent here and the bananas are the best I've ever had. I never knew there were so many kinds of bananas. I don't think I will lose any weight from not eating though, because what I do eat is surely not low calorie! Fried bananas and fried grapefruit and rice .....
Today we saw a lot of rice fields in all stages of planting and harvesting. I've seen rice fields before but nothing on this scale. It was really fascinating.