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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
AT HOME ON A BOAT
Last week we took our best adventure trip yet when we sailed out to sea for 4 days and went scuba diving around the Similan Islands. Before reading further it is imperative that you understand the Similans are on the list of top ten best dive sites in the world. We could barely contain our excitement when the boat finally arrived to pick us up.
We ate our meals and slept on the MV JAZZ, a cream of the crop boat for divers and ironically also musicians. All meals were accompanied by hits from the 80's. Evening meals were preceded by guitar jam sessions. Dive jumps off the back of the boat were soundtracked with tunes like "Jaws" and "Star Wars". At night, turtles followed our boat using the flood lights to hunt for food. But Katie swears that the only reason turtles showed up is because they too, dig the sound of Jimi Hendrix.
After we exhausted ourselves with diving and music, it was time to go home. We sailed back to the main land thus becoming land lubbers again. Check out the official Trelstad Family Photo for 2008, taken at 60 feet below the surface of the ocean.
We ate our meals and slept on the MV JAZZ, a cream of the crop boat for divers and ironically also musicians. All meals were accompanied by hits from the 80's. Evening meals were preceded by guitar jam sessions. Dive jumps off the back of the boat were soundtracked with tunes like "Jaws" and "Star Wars". At night, turtles followed our boat using the flood lights to hunt for food. But Katie swears that the only reason turtles showed up is because they too, dig the sound of Jimi Hendrix.
After we exhausted ourselves with diving and music, it was time to go home. We sailed back to the main land thus becoming land lubbers again. Check out the official Trelstad Family Photo for 2008, taken at 60 feet below the surface of the ocean.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
SONGKRAN 2008
We are so glad to be home in Thailand for Songkran, the Thai Buddhist New Year's Celebration. Songkran creates absolute maddness in the streets because people are walking around with waterguns, buckets and free-flowing hoses: dousing each other all day long. All the water throwing is to symbolically wash your friends of their "sins" in preparation for the new year. We were hit by several drive by squirt gun shootings. To be honest, the shootings may not have been completely unprovoked (insert mischevious smile here). Even the police take a day off from their usual stoic perching on street corners to have a little fun.
Katie decided to take this holiday as an opportunity to wash the police of their sins of writing a particularily high speeding ticket to an unsuspecting, and completely innocent (of course) pair of foreign english teachers. Katie walked up to the police man and chucked a bucket of water at him, drenching his uniform thus thoroughly clearing him of all wrong-doings. It was a purifying and nearly religious experience for Katie too. Warning: Do not try this at home! American police wouldn't be so light hearted and fun loving. See the pictures below.
Katie decided to take this holiday as an opportunity to wash the police of their sins of writing a particularily high speeding ticket to an unsuspecting, and completely innocent (of course) pair of foreign english teachers. Katie walked up to the police man and chucked a bucket of water at him, drenching his uniform thus thoroughly clearing him of all wrong-doings. It was a purifying and nearly religious experience for Katie too. Warning: Do not try this at home! American police wouldn't be so light hearted and fun loving. See the pictures below.
Monday, April 14, 2008
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