Today was our scheduled 'lazy day' were we stayed in our room until 5:00 pm. We went the night bizarre down the road for a look for some clothes and food. Had a few drinks then went back the room :-)
The 15th was 'Bungee Day'.(this is ben by the way) I hadn't told anyone I was doing it due to that girl putting a dampener on the whole thing by snapping her bungee rope falling in a river and then nearly gettin eatin by crocodiles an endin up on the news. So we got up early got our scooter back and road to Mae Rim. You could see the crane you jumped off from quite abit a way and it started dawning on me. Got to the X-centre and paid for the t-shirt photos and jump package (photos uploaded soon!). Got revved and roped up and set Gem up with the camera. There was an option to go naked but I declined to the Thai fellas offer. Hopped into the basket of the crane and climbed the 50 metres to the top. You could see the mountains and the guide gave me the instructions. I hopped over to the edge of the basket and wiggled me toes off and for the first time thought twice about doing it...anyway too late for tha he was counting down from three and off I jumped. Horrible feeling didn't really want to do it again but...got down to find Gem didn't understand how to work the video function on the camera and never filmed it! So there I was back in the basket on the way up again! Definitely worse the second time but felt better afterwards than the first. We sat outside afterwards and watched a girl who u can hear laughing in the video proceed to do the bungee naked! We drove to the nearest waterfall and had a dip then went back to the room to get changed. Headed back out to the local shopping village and had tea in a traditional Thai eatery. Found a tea and cake shop and had desert (gem was in her element). Headed back the room nackered but content after ticking one off the bucket list.
The next day we got up early fed some huge carps and catfish and hired bikes to visit the temples of Chiang Mai. At the fourth temple we joined in 'Monk Chat' where we were greeted by a happy monk saying "Calm down, Calm down". We didn't really expect tha to say the least. He answered some questions and seemed really friendly and Gem told him how he should use the word 'boss' in his vocabulary. Seen the rest of the temples on the tour and visited the recreational facilities on the Womens Prison. The massage centre was full but we got our tea cooked by the inmates instead. The service was surprisingly good from inmates lol but the food was even better! We even considered getting another plate each but thought that was a bit greedy ha!
Gem- We Rode back the hotel on our bikes and decided we would get cleaned up then head back out. We went down the Sunday walking street and it was alot more relaxed than it was on Sunday! Sorry to talk about food again....but we had tea in the most lovely family run restaurant, we had stir fried chilli n garlic chicken with holy basil and sticky rice yummy! It was so nice i decided to learn how too tell the Thai lady it was delicious! "A-Roy mahk" I said when she took our plates and she was delighted and asked where we were from were we were going ect and said if we ever go back to Chiang Mai she would be so happy to see us again :-) we left feeling great! It's surprising how a friendly chat can make ur night haha! Afterwards we went to a backpacker bar called UN Irish bar, we didnt think we wud find guiness in thailand haha! we had just missed the quiz...gutted! After a few drinks and laughs we headed home knackerd!!
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