Just so you know ... there won't be any photo's to this post. So those of you who only like the pics, go ahead and leave. :)
I got about 3 hours sleep after we got into our place. Awake at 4:30 a.m. and just couldn't go back to sleep. I climbed out of bed at 6:30, took a quick shower. Because it's usually hot here they have no reason to use much hot water so their water heater is quite small. It was so cold my first night here I wanted a hot shower ... I got a warm shower. I will master the shower taking so I'll have a hot short shower.
Pat has to report to work at 8 so we headed to the cafeteria for breakfast. I will post pictures of this as soon as I can, when we get back, the cafe is closed now for the holiday. I had a two egg omelet with onions, peppers, and tomatoes. BUT NO COFFEE!!! What the heck!! Pat said they don't drink it much here. In Chiang Mai there are coffee shops everywhere. Pat found me a "tube coffee", think instant coffee with creamer and sugar in a crystal light type tube. Not real coffee but it helped. We headed to meet all of his co-workers, everyone was so friendly and knew who I was before I had a chance to introduce myself. We headed upstairs to see if the headmaster was in and to meet the school principal and the other support staff. Again, everyone was friendly and welcoming. We brought Abbey along as well as we wanted her to get used to everyone. Of course, they thought she was the cutest ... and she is!
The Fall
We headed down the two flights of stairs, one flight then a landing, second flight ... and my foot slipped on the edge. I yelled something like, Ohhhhhh noooooo (Mr. Bill style). I had Abbey in my arms and slide down about 9 steps. Picture in your mind my large rump hitting everyone of those steps. All these lovely SMALL asian women came to my rescue. Poor Pat tried to catch me but it went so fast there was nothing he could do. He asked if I was okay and I was, for the most part. My pride was dinged and the large bruise on my bum will be quite large. No photo will follow! I should replace some of these football players who can't hold onto a ball because Abbey was safe when we got to the bottom. :)
The Trots
By the afternoon we were exhausted. Pat had gotten the use of a couples car so we could do some minimal shopping. We left about 7. We were like zombies walking through the mall. Yes, their mall is similar to ours except they will have all electronic stores on one floor. So competition is right next door. We got the few things we needed and headed back up the mountain (that's what they call where we live). Pat started feeling rough. The owner of the car has been sick for about 3 days with the trots and hurling. I think when he went to get the keys, he lingered too long in the germ infested house. Pat was up all night with the trots. No picture here either.
He was up all night again last night. He was miserable. Needless to say we didn't make our flight this morning. We have rescheduled to leave on Tuesday, which is probably best so he can get to feeling much better.
Later
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