Letters from Thailand

Alaina Labelle January 15 at 6:03pm Reply
Well, we made it to Bangkok... thought my head was going to explode, couldn't even hear out of my right ear, then getting through security and could barely understand what they were saying! haha :P
Then I went to bed as soon as we got to the hotel, which was at 7pm, bk time, and then I woke up at 3:30am, didn't get out of bed till 6am though. Had to get water, we only had a small bottle for the whole night ("Jordan, water... meh meh meh" like dumbledore). Today we went to the train station to get our tickets, so that's what will happen tomorrow, our train leaves at 7:30pm and we get to Krabi at 6:30am, should be sweet.
Today we were scammed! it wasn't so bad, but we got tired of it and made the tuk tuk driver drop us off! it was silly, I will have to explain how it works sometime, don't want to right now... :P
So funny when I went to go on the internet, Alex and Weez's firefly song came on! So cute! Just had early dinner. I'm wondering what's going to "do me in" ...: The Pad Thai from the street vendor, the spicy curry from dinner, the skin on the apple, or the sun... I'll let you know if I ever find out...
We went to Th Khao San Rd, it's super touristy, pretty sure we got ripped off... but getting ripped off usually means add an extra CAD. Tiff you should be excited, got you something that will probably make you shit kittens (and you wouldn't even be annoyed with them) muhahaha, now you must wait 2 months to find out!
Didn't see anything for you Trina, I will find the perfect drawing though! Haha, maybe it will be a hand drawing of J and I, HAHAHA!
What else, it's been a busy day! We went to a temple and got some pics, we also got suckered into buying Holy Water... from a monk... don't know what the fuck we'll do with it...? Also a good luck bracelet, from said monk, all for donations... they're nice...
Bought myself a dress, probably got ripped off, but it really only cost $5.50 hahaha... sooo cheap. J got sandals, and pants, really nice.
Lots of riding in Tuk Tuks! They are crazy, ALL the vehicles, it's like being in a high speed chase that you see on movies, except that's just how they drive, crazy! So much pollution! it's yucky! you can taste it! :( blahhhh!
Well, we'll see what happens tonight and tomorrow then I will be able to tell you more! Okay, miss you still... :)
Love you guys!
A

The days are sooo hard here! This is what it's been like:
Get up in the morning and go climbing.
Gorge on breakfast.
Go have a nap till it's too hot in the bungalow.
Go to the beach and watch all the hard climber.
Suntan and swim.
Go drink pina coladas and eat shrimp tempura.
Go back to bungalow and read....
just as an example...

-Seen a monkey today... we ran away.
- Love Thailand, still hate Bangkok...
- Our climbing trip to Thailand has turned in to a Vacation with climbing in it!...
- Lots of fat men in speedos...
- Drinking 6L of water a day!...
- Starting speak broken english, with accent...

Hahaha, will update more later!
Love you,
A & J

Little Sisters weekend of terror

Training, training, training! I can still only do 5 pull up though! bah humbug! I should be doing more training in the climbing gym too, instead of just general conditioning! Gotta look good for the beaches and the climbs for our trip. :P Two more months till we get on a plane and fly around the world, CRAZY, I’m nervous!

This weekend was a good one, did some training (of course), did a nice jog with Big sister, Melissa and J. I’m not as sore as the first time we went, thank god! and we actually spent a bit of time at “home” this weekend too, I spent my time cooking, I made some pumpkin/squash manicotti, and I discover the joy that is a bread machine, wow, you just add the ingredients and let it do all the work, amazing. My bread is usually rushed and never given the proper amount of time to rise, and half the time I think my yeast is dead or I killed it, always comes out kinda hard and doughy... not with a bread machine though, perfect and fluffy, with a cruchy crust, it’s great!

So, Saturday morning I get up early, and sit down the drink my coffee... what was that? I thought I’d seen something out of the corner of my eye, guess not.. Wait, what was that? My other eye saw something... oh, I guess not, and before I can finish thinking to myself: “maybe I should get my eyes checked...” a mouse come hauling ass through the room. Because I was raised by cats, I took off after it and chased it into the kitchen where it found refuge under the stove, so I sat and waited... but as soon as i stood up to get more coffee, it took off peeling around the corner (if it had been a car, it would have burned rubber), in which case I took off after it, chasing it from kitchen, to music room, to living room, to entrance way, until it took off under the door into the basement. I stopped there, no way I was going to go into the basement. So I told Bern when he got up that the sneaky mouse lived in the basement. B set up a trap and now the mouse is dead. End of story...

The power went out on saturday night, for maybe half an hour, and it was pitch black. I’d been sitting watching something with B, and he was prepared, because this had already happened once that evening, so he makes his way into the kitchen to light some candles. I follow behind at a distance so I don’t run into him. Jordan had been sitting in the den/office working on a giude book, power goes out = lost work, dang (actually it was a goblin yell of frustration, eek). He also makes his way to the kitchen (with a frightful purpose). Bernie who is ahead of me is the first victim, Jordan scares him and I stop where I am, B laughs and I hear him shuffle from the room, taking the candle with him. It’s quiet, too quiet... I think of all the zombie movies I’ve seen. “Jordan?” I called out, wait a second, then I call out again “jordan???” I know he’s there in the darkness, waiting to scare me! My only defense is to fall to the ground. I hear shuffling, and I curl up smaller. J laughs, “Where are you?” Ha, he was right in front of me, I start kicking with my feet, powder-puffing his shins. Jerk, trying to scare me! But I showed him!

It’s actually a good thing we were home this weekend. Bernie has some chickens, and ducks and geese, which he lets wander around the yard (and who follow him around as he does yard work), and on sunday we were all inside chilling (just humans, not poultry), I was making my manicotti and noticed the geese doing their usual thing (wandering and picking at the gardens), but something was different, I look closer, holy shit, the male goose was chasing a bobcat up the hill. hahaha. I called Bernie so he could go and protect his geese, because the bobcat was coming back down the hill. So B went out and scared the cat away, and after a look at the geese he discovered one of the lady geese had a bite mark on her neck. Hmmm, she didn’t seem too bad, so he herded all his poultry friends into their pen and locked them up. The bobcat came back twice more! Looking for food. It left me feeling very torn, the kitty must be really hungry (and we all should know I am quite partial to cats), but I didn’t want it to kill B’s poultry friends, and unfortunately on monday morning the lady goose passed away.

Geese left in the flock: 3

Mice killed: 1

Lives to live: 9

Little Sister

Let the training begin!

I am pumped for training! Started with jogging last week, went with Big sister and Melissa, jogging outside on pavement hurts! Hurts in a good way though, we went two days in a row, my quads were so sore, I had trouble walking down stairs, and I was crawling up stuff like Gollum! J and I went to the gym, I can now do 5 pull ups! I will get back to my 10 that I was at last year (and that would be three sets of ten, thank you very much)! For motivational purposes we like to watch bulging brides, it’s facinating, I love people losing weight! Then playing with the kittens, it’s part of our training regime as well, I can bench press THREE kittens, that’s right, three. And it’s so great to actually have time to do all this, now that we live in town! We went to the climbing gym also, I didn’t actually do all that much there, mostly told Brandon E. what to do, hahaha.

My hair, I’ve decided not to keep growing it, because I already know what it will look like...... It’s going to look like my hair, except longer. Yeah, I don’t want to look like a soccer mom, when I don’t even have kids! I’m not going to shave it off,(though that would be an improvement) just shorter, like when I cut off my dreads. Sweet, sweet dreads... They were perfect, the only problem was they got HEAVY and gave me migranes. But they were so long and manageable! There were only two stlyes for them: Down or up. Absolutely awesome. Now my hair has been released, and every strand has an idea of it’s own. Most mornings I look like a cat that has been startled, pffft!

Yep, now that things are calming down, I can really start planning our trip, sweet! This summer and fall were too crazy to spend much time doing it. We had a fire out in the valley, so we moved all our valuable stuff to B & S’s, then the fire was over and we moved it all back, THEN we decided that living in town was a good idea, and moved it ALL into town! What a gong show. I never realized how crappy moving was. This is the first place we moved out to (other that the “Winlaw experience” but that’s another story), and luckily I got on this BIG feng shui kick last year, so we had already gotten rid of the crap we didn’t need, but there was still a lot of stuff to be moved. And then the cleaning!... Like I said before, I had to clean the bathroom... and we did the carpets, and well, everything! It’s a lot of work, but now it’s over, and I can hardly believe that we don’t live there any more, I will miss it, it was beautiful.

I was sitting at Hucul with Big sister and the Wizard the other day, Wizard was going to brew us a magical cup of coffee. He reached into the fridge to grab the beans.

Big sister said “You aren’t supposed to keep coffee in the fridge, it should be stored somewhere dark and cool.”

Wizard replied “Like the fridge?...”

Little sister

Pull ups: 5

Number of times moving my stuff for no reason: 2

Number of days (out of 60) I have planned for traveling: 0

Well, it's a full week after thanksgiving, and my sisters and I decided it was a great time to celebrate it, happens all the time. We went over to Alex's place and proceeded to cook a beautiful 12 course meal, including: mushroom caps (yum), edename (yum), spinach supreme, potato... things, guacamole, chips, as well as the main course, Hot Dogs. It was pretty classy.
So was the Rock Band we played after, with Middle Sister singing in an operatic voice to Billy Idol, Korn and Pat Benetar. And all of us stroking out trying to play Tool, on the easy setting... My hair was all for the 80's rock band. I was told it was Very Rick James... Bitch! I really should have looked in the mirror before we left the house, or at least accepted the offered toque from Big Sister, who was apparently trying to be polite.
The day didn't start off this amazing, I woke up with a headache, which always sucks and doesn't happen very often. So, thinking to fix it all, I took an Advil liquid gel... and felt really sick, it started when I burped and my throat tasted as I imagine biting into a battery might taste... I'm pretty sure I could have jumped someone's car had they needed it! So I went an had a nap until I felt better, which wasn't until 2:30pm, a little later than I usually like to get up.
The poor Wizard had two wisdom teeth removed this afternoon, which means he was be out of it for the day (you may have noticed the bizarre facebook posts). He decided to take the opportunity of having time off to learn more spells and magic... We mugged Little Alex for his Xbox 360, and the game The Elder Scrolls - Oblivion. Can't wait to see what he learns, should be amazing. He got an early start on it actually, as it was 4am this morning when he turned it off. What an eager beaver! Oh, something amazing happened on the way to the dentist, I was eating a wrap from the Pink Cherry when, ZING, I bit into a piece of the foil that was wrapped around it, it took a little work, but I found the evil tinny culprit!!!!
Anyways, new day today! I opted for the toque, it makes my life easier.

Little Sister

Hair Control: +1
Urges to play Rock Band: +10
Zinging teeth: +2

This morning I started the day off right: Bollywood Music Videos, the colours always get me pumped! Whooo! The Wiz made me a London Fog too, but it was more of a London, Ontario Fog, as there was only Hazelnut flavoring in the house.

Then I looked in the mirror, yep, still have my hair... You know the movie Ghost, and how Whoopi's character could channel spirits, well, I can channel dead hairstyles, without even trying, it just happens, has my whole life. But maybe that happens when you're raised by mangey cats... My hair would make Don King proud, if you look too hard you may get hypnotized, or even turned to stone. It also has a mind of it's own, it's like breast implant, if you turn in a direction it doesn't want to, it will just stay where it was. It defies gravity. You know how some people seem to have a black cloud following them around, I have a tornado, constantly whipping my hair around (and not in a good way...). I do have a great hair dresser, and she can make my hair do what she wants, but she's a professional and must have magic powers like the Wizard!!

After picking up Middle sister, we went to start packing and moving my stuff (where did it all come from??? Must be the Wizards). I had my hair up in a pony tail, with a headband. If anyone reading this watched the X-Men cartoon as children, my hair looked like Gambits, yep.

Moving went well, Middle sis did a shotty job on our bathroom, don't tell her, but I'll have to go redo it...... After we dropped the stuff off at the Big Steel Box, we proceeded to go to Big Sisters house, we brought her pizza, and Oatmeal cookies (her favorite!)...... Probably not the greatest for our supposed diet... Oh well, I don't need to worry about my weight... You know the Goldie Locks story, first one too hard, second one too soft, third one just right? That's me, except it's first and second too soft, third one too hard...... Zing!

That's enough for today!

Little Sister

Pull up: 2

Hair control: -10

kittens to snuggle: 3