Last night Jess, Seashia, Ginny, Maia and I were going to the gay pride parade in Chiang Mai. Itwas supposed to really big and really fun, and it's been a while since I've seen the gay pride parade in NY but I wanted to compare to two, if nothing else. As soon as we are about to leave in the Song Tao Seashia gets a call that says the parade is cancelled, there was a protest, and there were a lot of Red Shirts. We decided to go anyway, to see the protest but yet again, Seashia got a call, and we were told it was too dangerous to go. So instead we went to the saturday night market. But as we were driving there we passed a Wat where those who were supposed to be in the parade were being held against their will. As we drove by it didn't necessarily seem to dangerous for us to be there, but we took everyone else's word for it and kept going. Inside the dates of the Wat you could see Red Shirts with machine guns.
And on a much lighter note: Today I went to the zoo. The animals were spread out, and the place was certainly not meant for walking. We had to take a shuttle from place to place and for the zoo having so much property, they kept the animals in relatively small habitats. For anyone who knows me, it is needless to say that the penguins were my favorite exhibit. There was one who kept floating around in the water and trying to scratch and itch he had on his butt, and not looking where he was going he repeatedly swam into the glass. Penguin squish.
There were otters we could almost pick up, an elephant all by himself who we could feed, another roaming around the zoo watering flowers with his trunk, a white tiger, lions, primates, giraffes that anyone could pet, alligators, reptiles, rhinos, a nocturnal section and an aquarium. We spent about 5 hours there, and at least an hour of that was us lost trying to orient ourselves. All and all a very productive day.
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