Heidi, Charlotte, and I (The “A” Team as we refer to
ourselves as, A for Adventure of course) decided to go to Chiang Mai for
another adventure this past weekend. Adventure it surely was. We arrived late
Friday night and were near death due to a pizza craving. We tried to get the
guy at the front desk of our hostel help us ordering pizza in but all he said
was, “You want McDonalds?” in this quiet, creeper voice. That was obviously no
help being that #1 McDonalds is my least favorite place of all time, and #2
they have no pizza. So we walked the streets, and finally hailed a Tuktuk to
take us to Pizza. He knew of a Pizza Hut! Score! He drops us off at an actual Pizza
Hut. We are now salivating as we see people eating inside. We run to the door
and BAM our dreams are crushed. Pizza Hut closes at 11pm. It is currently 11:02
and they will not serve us. So instead we wander around, end up at a Night
Bazaar, and the only place we find that is still open is none other than, yep
you guessed it. McDonalds. Gross.
On Saturday we decided to rent scooters to drive around all
day. When the scooter guy came, I was filling out our paper work and realized
not one of us had a passport, driver’s license, or any form of ID. I didn’t get
too far on the paperwork; I thought we were for sure out of luck. But this isn’t
America, this is Thailand! He settled for a deposit of 3000 baht. Done. We got
a 10 second tutorial of how to work the thing in broken English and were off on
our scary drive. The traffic was pretty sketchy, and we were also pretty bad
drivers but eventually got the hang of it. We got full body Thai Massages, got
real pizza, and drove around the whole town. We then drove them up a beautiful
mountain to the Doi Suthep temple. It was beautiful and probably our favorite
part of the weekend.
We then hit up the Saturday Night Market and headed back
to our hostel. There was a little party going on in the garden area and so we
joined that, made a few friends after a brief awkward period. They were drunk
and heading off to do Karaoke. Charlotte and I really couldn’t pass up a fun
night out so we decided to follow behind on our scooters. We ended up at what
looked like an abandoned motel 6, but instead of hotel rooms each room was a
private Karaoke lounge. Surprisingly we had a great time singing 90’s songs and
watching everyone else sing. We headed back and zonked out after a day like
that.
Sunday we went on a zip lining adventure! It was my first
time, and the A team dominated.
After a fun Sunday of zip lining we tried to
make our way home. Basically an 8-hour train ride turned into a 14-hour nightmare.
There was an accident on the railway, so we were shipped on a bus where no one
had heard of our sweet little home in Phichit. Heidi lost her wallet, they
wouldn’t let us on a train, we couldn’t figure out our stupid key to get our
bikes, and we got back with 20 minutes to prepare to teach. Up all night, but
worth the amazing weekend we had!
This weekend we’re headed to Sukothai and I promise I’ll
actually write about it!
Thanks for reading!
