Today Fai and I went and dropped our wedding photos off to the kodak place and got some photos printed.  We had an album made for Fai’s mom and dad to keep. Now they have all of the photos from our wedding.

We went and grabbed some food and then did some more shopping. Mom wanted to come with us so we went and picked her up and also the musician guy and his wife and cutie pie baby.  We drove a pretty good distance, about an 1.5 hrs and they showed some amazing sites here.

One thing we saw is a mushroom shaped, completely naturally occuring rock formation. It’s pretty amazing to see how the rock has changed shape over the 180 million years, i think thats what the plaque said and the formation it created resembles a patch of mushrooms. Also, as people have visited, they have picked up the smaller rocks and set them up in stacks to make nice little formations on this giant rock.  It was wicked beautiful.

Then we hopped in the car again and drove to Thailand National Park. This area has one amazing view. We standing high on a mountain looking down over lush green fields.  We were really high up, so high it made me feel a little dizzy at first looking down.  Pretty amazing.

Also in this area is a cave that has hieroglyphics on the cave wall. Fai has been down there before and its about a mile walk on some treachorous rocks, so we opted not to do that.  Its pretty hot out here so an hour in the sun is pretty tough.

Our last spot we visited was an area where all of the Kings friends that come to visit would stay in this very wealthy area of thailand.  The houses were pretty big and everything was decorated really nice. Bushes were carved out to make them look elephants, lots of flowers, and an area that had some elephant statues setup. pretty neat stuff.

pics to follow later…we’re tired from all of todays activities!

We took another day trip today that involved going to a bordering country called Lao, rhymes with “vow”.

We had to go through immigration and I have a visa into Lao now. My passport is decorated with a lot of stamps now.

This road trips purpose was to go see a waterfall, but really it was a lot more then that.  We saw not 1, not 2 but 3 different waterfalls. Each were pretty impressive. We got a ton of great photos today.

Along the way we met some local people. The women in this hut had extra large pierced ears, like the size of a cork. We took photos with them and just like everyone here, they are extremely friendly.

Got a busy day, we are back in Thailand since last night.

We got tons of photos from today, here is just one. Lol…

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we saw that the ravens lost today. boooo! Whats up with the ravens beating all of the good teams and losing to all of the bad teams?!

This morning Fai and I started our one year wedding anniversary together by spending some time with Fai’s aunt and then we went to the mall and did some shopping and had some breakfast.

Then we went on a tour of Thailand and i have some amazing photos from today to share, but i don’t have time to post them right now so stay tuned.

I will tell you this. We went to a real UFC, MMA training facility. We saw the fighters training. I think Davey would get a kick out of that.

we went all around today to different temples, a dragon shaped boat, another house that looks like a boat that is on the river — it was beautiful.

we went to a temple and saw a gold buddha statue, but this one is of buddha laying down. I also got alot of photos of all this for everyone to see.

we fed fish on the house on the river that shaped like a boat and Fai took some video of that.

Right now we are going to dinner and having fun at a karaoke bar!

UPDATED: i posted some photos! This is some pretty incredible stuff.  The whole time i was here today i could not believe that I am actually here doing this right now.  I have alot more stuff from today that i can’t wait to organize and put up here on the website, but tomorrow we are going on another road trip so i have to be up at 5 AM.  We are going to Lauw tomorrow. Its a city that is on the border of Thailand and another country. I’m not sure where it is but we are going there to see some sights!  Today was fascinating enough. I think tomorrow I’m going to get to see a Thai waterfall.

Also since we’ve been here i have not seen any elephants. The reason is that they recently passed a law prohibiting the elephants in the cities. I think it was just too dangerous and maybe not healthy to have the elephants in the city. They love and respect elephants here.

I have seen some chameleons, some big bugs, and lots of dogs. Dogs live outside of the houses. They don’t allow dogs in the house, but really here its so warm everyday and cooler at night, but some night have been warm too, like tonight. I think today it was 90 degrees and tonight it was 80. And this is there winter time! I cant imagine how hot it is here in there summer time.

off to get some rest, to prepare for tomorrows adventure.

Right after the wedding reception we drove home, got in our jammies and hopped in the car. Mom, dad, brother, brothers wife, Fai, and me drove drove to an area called chonnabot, we are not sure of the English spelling but that’s how you say it.

Fai drove. I’m impressed to see Fai driving here because its like new York, but with added randomness because of all of the bikes.  Fai is clearly a much better driver then I had ever imagined.

So we went to this area to meet Fais grandmother from her dads side. Very pretty home and really nice people. This area is more country.

I was talking to mom on the phone and as we were driving by we passed a giant gold Buddha statue. It was dark out so taking pictures was not possible.

We went to bed after driving for 4 hours.

Woke up in the morning and met my other grandmother and then we went and met the neighbor who was a 93 yrs old. A very sweet woman.

She used to make satin that could then be used by someone to make clothes. I think my red shirt is made from satin.

After a little while we went into the city. We dropped sister in law and mom at some bridal place to get a picture framed. We drove around and got some snacks like fried bananas in some kind of sauce. I think it was sweet condensed milk and some other flavors.

Then we went to central plaza mall and ate at mk.

We saw some kids wearing anime costumes parading around the mall. Too cool.

We saw a couple of models talking about some clothes on a stage.

We also also another stage with dancers and a show hosted by a guy and a girl for some spa.

See the pics!

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Us with the bride and groom. Photo by ning. Great photo!

Me, ning, groom, bride, modji moji, and the prettiest girl in Thailand ever, fai!

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Military style wedding tradition

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Here are some photos from the wedding reception.

Maybe 1000 people attending.

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In my shiny red shirt.

Go on Facebook and friend modji moji, she has a lot of pictures of us.

This photo was taken by ning.

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Weddings here are split into 2 sections. First the ceremony, which we have already had. The photos I posted earlier were from that.

We got up at 5 am this morning got dressed and then made our way down to Fais aunts house. It’s right across the street.

I watched them yesterday setup those tents and tables. They hired a company to come set it up. 3 big tents to keep all of the visitors cool because its hot here. Right now its 90 degrees. Tonight it will be cool.

So around 6 am we head down there, we ate some fried dough w/ sweet condensed milk. U should try it. It’s really good. That was like a little snack for everybody.

All the girls here are all dressed up and looking good, but this part of the event is semi casual. In there culture its ok for me to wear jeans and a nice shirt to the ceremony.

I been helping out as much as I can understand what it is I need to do. Sometimes that’s hard.

I carried the monks dish not sure what it was, but we set them inside of the room where the ceremony was held.

So down the street and around the corner we carried all of the fruit to that house. That is where the groom starts his day. They make like a parade with a Thai style band. The procession is led by the groom and then behind him is like a few hundred people, his side of the family.

So they walk from that house to the aunts house and there are several people that are blocking his way. We are all holding a chain of some kind to prevent him from getting through. They each get to ask him some questions and if he answers correctly they will let him pass. Fai and I are positioned at the end of the line. The family wanted me to ask him some questions in English and the trick is that he has to answer in English. Fai and I were the last stage of the test.  So when he finally made his way through the other stages Fai was holding the Mic, she said something and giggled and then gave me the Mic. I bet it was something like surprise you have to answer questions in English. Haha.

I asked him 3 questions.what r u doing here? Who do you want to see? And do you have something for me that might pursuade us to let you go by?

His answers were cool. He was like ‘I am here to get me a pretty girl.’, ‘I want to see the pretty girl.’ And then he gave us some envelopes that have some money in them. And with that we let him go through. Mission accomplished.

Good job guy!

I have tons of photos but some are on the camera and not on the phone so when we get back we will posting some more stuff overtime.

Photos are the groom, the bride, Fais brother bandid’s wife with Fais cousin, and this is a group shot of Fais family (mom, sister in law, brother, ..)

Tonight is the reception at the hall and then after the party we are going to drive to another area to meet Fais other grandmother, her dads mom. It’s 4 hours away!

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This is when we lit our candle and let it go in the river. We make a wish and set it free.

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