HAPPY NEW YEAR...A few hours drive south from Chiang Rai and I was again in one of my favorite Thailand cities, Chiang Mai, the perfect place to celebrate the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. Marcia, a friend from Wisconsin was in Lao and decided to join me. We went to the Night Safari where we saw white tigers and a fabulous water show.
The next day we spent hours at the Thai Royal Flower Show, with so much to see it was overwhelming, and pictures hardly do it justice.
At the floral exhibit I bought a beautiful parchment paper hand painted parasol with a Dragon as 2012 is the Chinese year of the Dragon, and also my birth sign. New Years Eve we found the famous Night Market where streets are blocked off and vendors sell their unique handicrafts. My prize this time was a small hand-hewn wooden mortar and pestle to crush garlic and chilies for Thai cuisine. After a yummy Pad-Thai dinner we entered into the Chiang Mai tradition of sending gas lighted lanterns into the sky and watched fireworks at midnight.
On New Years Day Carrie met us and we all took a Thai Batik painting class. Learning to draw lines with hot wax proved a bit challenging, however after lunch the second one seemed a bit easier. Adding color to my Goddess was the fun part. After class with two completed batiks each, we journeyed to the Sunday Walking Street Market to look, eat and shop!
What else would three blonds in Thailand do???
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