One great post... minus cute pictures.

Ahhh!  I'm way behind!  Okay- this post is going to be a little less in-depth because I just want to try to catch up a bit.  K?  Cool.  If you want to see more pictures, I'll put them in an album on my facebook profile.  (Cause I'm sure you're all just clamoring for more, right??)  :)

First off- The Crocodile Farm.  It was such a blast!!  We saw... well, crocodiles.  Sure.  Lots of them, actually!  Crazy animals.  Whit and I actually pet one, too!  More like touched it, actually... touched it and then got the heck out of there.  :)  

We also got to "fish" for crocodiles.  How does one do that?  Simple.  You just put a dead chicken on some fishing wire... and throw it to a bunch of hungry crocodiles!  Check out the picture my brother got- see the one jumping in the air?  Pretty dang awesome.

Our absolute favorite part of the crocodile farm, though, was the tigers.  Yes... at the crocodile farm.  No questions please.  I have them, too.  :)  They had baby tigers, and first we payed a few dollars so we could hold them and feed them a bottle of milk.  Then for some reason, they let us sit and play with the cubs for like 20 minutes!  They were dang cute.  That's all.  It was awesome.

I also have to give a shout out to my sister, Amber. While I've been here, I've gotten to see her in two of her school plays.  It's been awesome.  She rocks.  Hollaaaa!

Whitney had an amazing idea that we should all go to an orphanage and volunteer for a while.  Let me just tell you.  It was incredible.  Those kids were so, so sweet.  I seriously just wanted to take them all home with me.  There is no way to really put it into words.  (Well... I'm sure my sister Lindsay could, but... I'll just have to leave it at... "wow".)  It was just great.  I wish so much that I could have communicated with them better!  The fact that we didn't speak Thai sure didn't keep them from TRYING to talk to us though!

 You are just going to have to believe me when I say that these pictures are dang cute.  I don't know why I can only post one... but blogger hates me.  That is all I know for sure.  The end.  Maybe I'll try to get more of them up later.

We just barely got back from a vacation to Chiang Mai.  Now THAT is what I call fun.  I'll post about that as soon as I'm no longer angry at blogger for taking so many hours to load my dang pictures!!!

A few more days to blog about. :)

Sorry that I keep grouping a bunch of stuff into each post!  I'd love to say that I'll get better at spreading them out, but that might be a lie.  Okay.  So, we finally made it to the floating market.  Such a cool place!  You... float in a boat as you shop.  That's really all there is to it.  One of the best parts was watching the people on the side taking pictures of US.  (Thais get really excited when they see white people.  They realllllllly do.)  On the way home from the floating market we drove through a whole bunch of coconut groves.  ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.  One of the most amazing things I've seen.  There were rows and rows of coconut trees with trenches of water between each row.  The water, though was covered with... I don't know what it was.  Moss of some sort.  They were all LIME GREEN.  The colors were SO vibrant and so so cool.  It was probably my favorite part of that day.

 Adventure number next:  Dreamword.  Bangkok's very own theme park!  Let me tell you a little bit about it.  Dreamworld is Disneyland's worst nightmare.  *Disclaimer.  I didn't actually ask Disneyland about this.*  I pretty much think that the only reason Disney even HAS copyright laws is to avoid this very scene.  :)  You see, Thailand doesn't think much of copyright laws.  Actually, I'm pretty sure nobody in the country knows they even exist!  No, really.  Stop doubting me... I'm serious.  Dreamworld was a riot!  It was 85% a broken down Disneyland and 15%... what WAS that?  I loved it!!  Here are some pics for your enjoyment.

This last week we went to a city called Hua Hin.  Its an awesome, awesome coastal city.  We're talking BEACH, people!  Amber didn't come because she had a school

field trip... to Japan.  Sure.  Why not go to Japan for a field trip?  This week she has a field trip to Singapore for a theatre convention.  Okay... back to the subject.  For those of you who somehow don't already know, the beach is my favorite place ever.  I loooove it.  These particular bunch of beaches were amazing.  When the tide would go out, we got to see the COOLEST sea life and sea shells.  We wandered the coast for HOURS  and HOURS.  The one downside?  That same sea life was also IN the water... and not just on the shore.  I have had my fair share of jellyfish stings.  These have been from both Thailand and Hawaii.  Many, many in fact.  Okay, all of them have been from "members of the jellyfish family" and not actual jellyfish, but... same thing.  They both have insane amounts of zapping power.  *Moving on.*  The ocean in Hua Hin was FULL of jellyfish.  Meaning?  No swimming.  Dang.  We did get brave enough to wade out to a couple of sandbars, though.  The jellyfish were SO COOL to watch!  They may be some of my favorite animals.  Someday I'll have a pet jellyfish.  *That may or may not have been a true statement.*  Anyway.  These beaches were so cool to wander because of all the sea life we got to watch.  Jellyfish, territorial crabs, eels, shrimp, squid, fish, etc...  We also got to chill on a dock when a shrimp fishing boat came in.  They had been out to sea for 10 days and it was AMAZING to watch these guys unloading their boats and all of the shrimp and fish they caught.  I think they thought it was a little strange that we were just standing there watching them, but... I sure didn't care.  :)  Long live coastal cities, man.  Long may they live.