Ginny and my friend Allie has come to visit for 2 weeks, until we leave for the hmong village on the 25 of March. She has been a good excuse to do all the touristy things that we did, or wanted to do in the beginning of the semester over again. Her only requirement of her trip here was to pet a baby elephant, which we did when we saw one walking out on the street during dinner. We went out pet it bought the over-priced sugar cane to feed him. Allie commented on how bristly his head was.
For once I am finding it nice that PIH is half dorm half hotel. Allie rented out a room, much nicer than any of our dorms. So I've been sitting in her huge bed getting my work done. Although, this is something that I normally find a great inconvenience (like when a korean soccer team comes to stay and takes up every inch of free space outside of our dorm rooms) PIH is proving itself a great hotel.
So far we have taken her into the old city, tons of markets, carrefour, to get Thai massages and are planning to take her to ride elephants and on the "flight of the gibbon" tour. The Flight of the gibbon is a huge tourist attraction in which people essentially zip line in the in the rainforest, see a waterfall, and other such things. It will be an interesting shift from showing Allie around to experiencing living in a hmong village.
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