First Night out with the Group

So it is now Wednesday, and the first time I have had a few minutes to sit down and type up some of what we have been up to.  I will start from the end of the last post.

After orientation, and meeting our tour leader “Hoover” we went for some traditional Thai food for dinner.  After that is when the real fun began.  Hoover brought the group out to a local bar, and introduced us to some Thai snack foods.

Hoover picked out some of her favorite selections, including scorpion, locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers.  They actually weren’t half bad.  The scorpion was a little chewy, but mostly tasted like fried chicken skin. I actually kind of liked the crickets.  They sort of had a raisin-like texture.  Jourdan was being a bit of a wimp about it at first, but after enough chiding from me, he finally tasted some.

As the drinking continued into the night, we started getting ambitious, and decided to go with our new friend Ed to a “Ping Pong Show.”  I can only really compare this to a dirtier, sadder version of the strip club.  We ended up with a lot of stories, most of which are not appropriate for public blog posts.  To give you a brief snapshot, we saw magic tricks with scarves, very long strings with bells shot into the audience, beer pong shots that I will never be able to make, balloons popped with blow guns, water turned to soda (EWW), and a picture drawn with no hands (we ended up in possession of this, see attached photo).

When we finally had enough, we took a long Tuk-Tuk ride that involved popping a lot of wheelies.  For a few moments, I thought we might die, but once Jourdan stopped screaming, we realized we were fine.  We stumbled back into the hotel sometime in the early morning, and prepared for the first full day of the tour.

For the purposes of continuity, and to break up the writing, I will try to break the posts down by day. 

Also, as I notice the writing getting a bit long winded, all I can say is, Fuck-it, we don’t care.  This blog is really for us, you are just an extra beneficiary.  Haha.