Chiang Mai is a pretty cool place. Darren and I spent yesterday on a Wat tour of the city - just walking around all day, saying "no" to every befuddled driver who wanted to take us somewhere and couldn't understand why we "with all out money" would want to walk. We stopped at Wat Chedi Luang and had a "Monk Chat". Seriously - you just walk up to these monks sitting under a tree with a sign that says "monk chat - free" and start chatting away about whatever. So we did for awhile. The guy was really nice, and he and his monk buddies were giving Darren Thai tongue twisters to practice his intonation and pronounciation. It was pretty funny. We went by Wat Pra Singh where the school kids were all in service for the holiday (it's the King's birthday this week). It was really cool listening to the monks chant - it's still one of the eeriest and skin tingling sounds, I think. The kids were just like kids in any church anywhere - listening to headphones, giggling and talking, taking pictures of each other with their camera phones, sleeping. It was really funny.
We spent the last two nights at the night bazaar and got a good bit of our christmas/souvenir shopping done. I've been on a pretty big shop fest this whole trip, but it's SOOOO cheap. I think the most I've spent on anything is about $12. But then again, we're not going for high end antiques and original artwork, either. It's nice stuff, though, and I've gotten my bargaining skills honed here :) Too bad there's no car or house shopping on my horizons. We're in Sukothai now, and we're going to spend the next couple of days cycling around ruins. Darren's only got 9 days left before he leaves, and still so much more to see!
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