Our life in Thailand

Greetings from Thailand: Sawasdee Kaa, I'm finally blogging. My team is so proficient I feel no need to intefere. What a trip! Literally...it's a TRIP..
Here are somethings of we've done: visited temples, rode tuk-tuks in NYC like traffic (scary), spelunked, dealt with monkeys, ate every type of food, some of it staring back at you, manis, pedis and massages (often), attended live theater, visited the Grand Palace and Emerald Buddha, sailed on a yacht with Captain Mark from Australia,, met with the Chief Justice in Phuket Courts, served snacks t0 inmates, sat with mothers at the nursery in the women's prison and spoke with youngsters (9 to 12 yo) at Juvenile Detention. We were privileged to see the inner sanctum of the Bank of Bangkok, a tuna fish factory, a deisel something something, a palm oil producing factory, latex factory, we rowed to hongs, (look that up in your Funk & Wagnall), climbed to waterfalls and dove through an unlit cave to an underwater wedding festival site, more temples, more food, visited a pottery making business, shadow puppet show, rubber tree plantation, chicken hatchery, rode in long tail boats to a floating village, saw swift bird condominiums where birds' nests are harvested for consumption, MANY Rotary meeting, Rotary clean water projects, we were interviewed on live radio...Gary we need to talk..... wait...almost done, we visited an electrical & gas plant and brick making factory, several tsunami sites, a self sufficient village that was under mud slides ten years ago, and one of my favorite spots, a batik printing business and oh yes, we kayaked and went to an aquarium, butterfly garden and prawn farm. Can't wait to show you hundreds of pix. Miss you all. Aileen