An Evening out in Kanchanaburi

Our little section of Chalets.
The way the sleeping arrangements worked out, we had one chalet for Jeremy and I, one for Ryan and Laura and one for the 6 kids.  I was a bit nervous locking them in what is really their own little building for the night, but quickly realized that the walls were so thin, we could hear them roll over in their sleep from 2 chalets down!

We decided to walk the 2km to dinner (Not sure the person actually measured that... it was MUCH further!) and came across this cute little doggie, Thai Semper!  She reminds me so much of our dog.

Look, it's the Tourist Police, your first friend!

Very pretty view of the river.

A Thai home which prompted Marshall to say:
"Mom, there's a good thing and a bad thing about Thailand.  The good thing is that they make use of all the resources they have.  The bad thing is...it looks like JUNK!"

;)

It's one of those fishy pedicure places!
You'll see later why I'm glad we didn't pay for one of these.

I'm not sure who this doggie is running from or what he did that he had to go incognito, but I'm not sure the dark Andy Rooney eyebrows are going to make him unrecognizable...Perhaps he should still be hiding somewhere and not lying out on the sidewalk.

Talk about efficiency!
And WE thought WE had one stop shopping in the U.S.
Drink!  Drunk!  Dance!  Smoke Pot!  Use the Internet!  Get a Tattoo!
(Don't forget to notice the tangled mess of electric wires.  How many safety codes do you think this violates?)

See the 7-11?  They are on EVERY street corner in Thailand.  Way more than we have here in the U.S.
We had dinner at The Jolly Frog.  They had lots of American style food and every flavor of smoothie, shake and lassi imaginable.  There were huge fans over our table that were pushing these tiny little gnats into our yummy drinks.  (Keep in mind, open air dining.  These places have ceilings, no walls.)  At one point, when we were all discussing what the little black things in our drinks were Lia exclaimed "LOOK!  I ONLY HAVE ONE BUG IN MY DRINK!!!"
:D

After our extremely long 2km walk to the restaurant, we decided we would wimp out and take a ride back to the hotel.  This funny man in his funny vehicle took us.  He was very chatty and asked us a lot of questions.  When we tried to explain to him the concept of the desert and told him that it only rains 2 or 3 times a year, his eyes got real big and he asked where we get our water from.  I put my hand out and made the motion that you would to turn a faucet on and said "From the faucet".  It took him a second as he translated it in his head and just cracked up laughing.  Thankfully, swerving all over the road is expected, so it wasn't an issue.  ;)