1/20– Hanging around Chiang Mai

Ahhh, that bed! It is so nice, but we still only manage to stay in it until 4:00 or 4:30.  Oh well – we’ve had a lot of sleep – and hey – it’s ok because we can watch football!  Yes!  We have the sports channel on the TV and we have a kettle to make coffee (and since we brought our Folgers instant coffee packages we have tons of coffee!) and we can just lie here and watch the Broncos beat the Patriots.  Not that exciting a game really, but it’s the game!  And we’re not bored!

In between the NFC and AFC championships, we head down to breakfast (which is included) and what a spread! They have everything from omelets to waffles to noodle soup to braised pork.  Asian, Thai, Continental and pastries.  You could make your main meal of the day there! 

We try not to gorge too much – then head back upstairs for that awesome Seahawks-49ers game. That was too fun!  After its over, we organize and pack and get ready to move on to Twin Peaks for our month long stay here in Chiang Mai.

Richard picks us up at noon and takes us over to the condos. Somehow though everything has gotten a bit discombobulated and we end up in the same condo where we stayed 2 years ago. No biggie – we thought we’d be in another unit, but they are all basically the same – so not an issue!

We drop our stuff and head over to the grocery store so we can supply up.  We grab little snacks and a couple of filler meals (chix tenders for salad, pork tenderloin, squid for Ed) and salad for lunches, snacks and alcohol (OMG, I knew the wine was expensive because of the tariffs but geez – $40 for a 3 liter box of wine – sigh – ah if only I drank beer!).  We grab our necessities, hand it all over to the customer service guy to arrange for delivery to us and off we go to walk back to the condo.

We wander through the Ansuran market so we can take day pictures – we’ll give you the before and after later!  We snap some pix of the Bamboo all closed up – there’s my tree!

Then head back to the condo to unpack.  Tonight we’ll hit the Gecko Garden (or what we lovingly refer to as the Greasy Gecko) for dinner and ex-pat bar conversation!