Geez, 5 days...

We're sorry, Thailand is just amazing, and we haven't been as diligent about blogging duties. So we'll try to post two or three tonight to get everyone back up to speed.

First things first, after we got to the end of our harrying travel adventure in to thailand, we somehow stumbled on one of the most fantastic places that we have seen so far on this trip: Ayutthaya, Thailand. It's the former capitol of thailand and super rich with cultural history (lots and lots and lots of temples). It is a manufactured island of maybe 8 sq miles that sits at the confluence of 3 rivers. Everywhere you turn there are ruins of ancient temples and fortresses as well as all of the modern day ones that have been built alongside. One of our favorite places had a tree that had grown around the head of an old Buddha statue. We were able to climb down to the crypt and up to the top of these ancient structures. One of the modern temples had a tremendous Buddha (6+ stories tall) seated inside. He filled most of the main sanctuary of the temple and it was evident that the room had been built around him.

This was our first foray in to local thai food. and it's incredible. with few exceptions, everything we have eaten has been fantastic, and cheeeeeeeeeeap. One of the food pics we actually remembered to take before devouring our meal was from our favorite restaurant so far on the trip... Liza this one's for you:

A funny story about this meal is that for the most part, the portion sizes in Southeast Asia have been much smaller than everyone in the states is used to. It's kindof refreshing actually to leave a meal and not be completely stuffed. However for this meal, everything looked so good and we were so very hungry that we decided to order three dishes. Coincidentally, this is the one restaurant we've been to where the portion sizing rule didn't apply. Needless to say, we ended up with mountains of food on our table and "had" to force our way through every bit of it. Rough life.

We've posted a bunch of the pics related to this post that can't fit in the blog on our flickr site.

Hope everyone is great!
TeamWander