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Friday, January 20, 2006

The Thai man says I won't go to jail

This afternoon my good friend Jessica from Alberta came down to Sriracha from Bang Saen to visit us. We had a good old time. She has been in Thailand for 2 weeks now, and is leaving tomorrow to go south to Khao Lak, where I will catch up with her in about 11 days. So we decided to go across town to the City Park behind the Municipality building. There is a large hill with a tower on the top of it. It's one of those touristy open air tower of stairswith a viewing deck up top. We started the walk up to the tower but soon realized that the stairs were completely overgrown. It was spooky! It felt like no man had been there for a few years, but we continued up the stairs anyways. We got to the base of the tower and met a Thai man and his (I'm assuming) grandson, and we asked them about the tower. He rambled on in Thai for a few minutes, but all I could get out of it was that it was very tall, which we could see cause it was right infront of us, and that from the top you could see Koh Samui on a good day. So, we began the climb. Except we didn't, cause as soon as we rounded the corner to go up the stairs we realized that there were no stairs. They had apparently taken out the bottom three flights for some reason,so we had to climb up the railing should we want to ascend the monolith. We decided it was maybe a not-so-good idea, and nearly chickened out, and would have were it not for another Thai passerby-er who laughed at us and when asked told us we would not go to jail if we climbed it, and so we did. It was gorgeous, and I got some good pics from up there. While up there we saw this small secluded section of beach and we decided to try and find a way to it. We did, but not until after we had been attacked by a rabid dog and followed by a few Thai men. Good times. So yeah, we got there and it was actually another really great place. We had to go down a road I had never been down, even when I lived here for 4 months. So that was cool, and similar to the tower, I got some cool pics. So yeah, overall it was a chill day, but now I am exhausted, so at 7:00am while many of you willbe getting up in the next few hours, here its 10pm, and I'm going to bed, cause Im exhausted from travelling and walking in the hot sun.
Kyle.
Oh yeah, I never told you how we almost missed our flight from beijing to Bangkok because we were given the wrong information. I then decided to check out the schedule on the computer, and found that we were supposed to be at another gate. b
Ut as you can see, it worked ou tin the end.
later.

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